United States v. Colon

RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO SUPPRESS STATEMENTS MADE IN POLICE CARS

JEFFREY ALKER MEYER, District Judge.

One day last April, law enforcement agents in this case arrested the seven defendants at a parking lot in Stamford, Connecticut on federal robbery and drug trafficking conspiracy charges. Immediately following the arrests, each of the defendants was promptly secured in the back seats of three unmarked police cars that were on the scene. While law enforcement officers continued to collect evidence from the scene of the arrest, defendants remained alone in the police vehicles, and they…