United States v. Johnny Vasquez-Algarin

OPINION OF THE. COURT

KRAUSE, Circuit Judge.

Law enforcement officers need both an arrest warrant and a search warrant to apprehend a suspect at,what they know to be a third party’s home. If the suspect resides at the address in question, however, officers need only an arrest warrant and a “reason to believe” that the individual is present at the time of their entry. This case sits between these two rules and calls on us to decide their critical point of inflection: how certain must officers be that a suspect resides at and is present at a. particular.address before forcing entry into a private…