Commonwealth v. Lopez

*443POPOVICH, Judge:

The Commonwealth appeals the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County granting the motion to suppress of the defendant/appellee, Emilio Lopez.1 We reverse.

The suppression court made the following factual findings: At approximately 9:30 p.m. on the 30th of October, 1992, Philadelphia police officers Robert Fetters and Alberto Rodriquez were in an unmarked vehicle and observed a black male hand currency to a Hispanic male (later identified as Aponte) on the northeast corner of 7th and Butler Streets in exchange for an unidentified item. This prompted the police…