United States v. Traci Parker

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

When Amtrak Police Department Special Agent Robert Suave reviewed the passenger manifest for Train No. 4 on July 15, 1987, one passenger caught his attention. “Tiffany Johnson,” later identified as the appellee Traci Parker, had purchased a one-way ticket from Los Angeles to Chicago less than an hour before the train departed, and had paid for the $400 ticket in cash. The manifest revealed that Parker was travelling alone and that she had reserved a private roomette on the train, but did not indicate an address from whence she had come or one to where she was going. She…