United States v. Nicolai Caymen, AKA Andre Patrick Payne

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.

We consider a motion to suppress evidence found on the hard drive of a computer that had been obtained by fraud.

Facts

We take the facts from the hearing on the motion to suppress and the district court’s decision on the motion.

Caymen worked as a desk clerk at a hotel in Ketchikan, one of Alaska’s larger cities, but as cities go, a small one, with a population of about 7,500 people. A local business supply store called the police after a woman complained that the store had charged her credit card $1,654 for a computer that she had not purchased. The store discovered…