State v. Santiago

PARKER, Judge.

The State of Florida appeals orders granting the motions of Robin Buckley Santiago and Timothy D. Lentz which sought to suppress cocaine seized from a vehicle. We reverse, concluding that the officer had a founded suspicion to conduct an investigatory stop.

The following evidence was adduced at the combined suppression hearing. Officer Sexton had been assigned to the River Park Apartments area during the four years he had been with the Naples Police Department. He knew that this residential community was a high-crime area for drugs. The typical drug transaction involved a person,…