United States v. Elder, Mark A.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The only question presented in this appeal is whether the district court should have suppressed evidence found in a shed that Mark Elder used to make methamphetamine. Like the district court, we conclude that the search and seizure were not unreasonable under the fourth amendment.

A 911 call led to the dispatch of two officers to a farm in Humbolt, Illinois. A caller had told the dispatcher “I think we got meth out here” and added that “suspicious” people were “flying like quails.” The caller hung up, and when the dispatcher called the originating number no one…