Salazar v. State

Phipps, Chief Judge.

Following a jury trial, Juan Salazar was convicted of trafficking in cocaine,1 and acquitted of operating a vehicle with a false or secret compartment.2 On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction and the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained during a search of the vehicle he was driving. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. Salazar contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction for trafficking in cocaine “because the jury did not convict [him] on the predicate offense of knowingly driving a…