J.P.N. v. State

After being informed by a man in a Wal-Mart parking lot that the occupants of a car were behaving in a suspicious manner, an officer stopped the vehicle and found drugs. Appellant, who was charged with possession, moved to suppress on the ground that this was an anonymous tip because the officer did not know the identity of the person from whom she received the information. We affirm the denial of the motion to suppress.

Because there had been a number of recent burglaries of vehicles in the Wal-Mart parking lot, the officer was patrolling the area more than she normally would have. An older…