State v. Holmes

ORR, Judge.

On 12 December 1990, Sergeant Terry Suit of the Charlotte Police Department arrested defendant after discovering a black zippered pouch containing baggies and tin foil packages of a powdered substance under the front seat of defendant’s car. The baggies contained cocaine, and the tin foil contained heroin. Suit was the supervisor in charge of a drug surveillance unit on Wyatt and Person Streets in Charlotte, North Carolina. He stopped defendant’s vehicle after hearing Officer William Holbrooke’s broadcast of defendant’s suspicious behavior.

The suspicious behavior of defendant…