State v. Carston

Defendants seek review of a decision of the Court of Appeals that reversed the trial court’s orders suppressing evidence. For the following reasons, we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals and affirm the orders of the trial court.

On March 19, 1993, an officer in the Redmond Police Department received a telephone call from a private citizen (informant) in Eugene. The informant told the officer that he had reason to believe that an illicit drug transaction was going to take place in the early morning hours of March 20.

The informant told the officer that he had been using his “scanner,”…