Commonwealth v. Canelus

After an evidentiary hearing, a judge of the Middlesex Superior Court allowed motions to suppress evidence filed by the defendants Rameses Canelus and Daqwan Collins. The motion judge found that Cambridge police officers lacked reasonable suspicion to believe Canelus was armed and dangerous at the time police stopped and searched him, and ordered the suppression of a firearm found during the search of a backpack carried by Canelus as well as other evidence and statements obtained from both defendants. After receiving permission from a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, the…