Zaval v. State

Appellant-defendant appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Monroe County, Florida denying a motion to suppress tangible evidence, i.e., marijuana, which was seized when defendant’s van was stopped by officers of the sheriff’s department of Monroe County.

The stop was based on information received by the deputies via communications with another deputy, who had been informed by the communications center that an individual had called concerning objects being loaded from a boat into a van. Based upon this information and a description of the van, the appellant was stopped by the deputies.…