Benitez v. State

Larry D. Vaught, Judge.

Lorenzo Benitez was convicted of two counts of possession of controlled substances with the intent to deliver. He was sentenced to two consecutive eighty-year terms in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Benitez raises two issues on appeal — that there was a lack of sufficient evidence to support the convictions and that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence. We affirm.

Onjanuary 26, 2003, at approximately 10:05 p.m., Arkansas State Police Officer Jeff Thomas, along with his canine partner Sida, was patrolling Interstate 40 in Miller County…