State v. Harris

Jim Gunter, Justice.

This appeal arises from an order of the Craighead County Circuit Court granting Appellee’s motion to suppress evidence seized following a canine sniff of Appellee’s truck. The State now brings this appeal. We reverse the circuit court’s order and remand for further proceedings.

On May 2, 2006, Appellee Namon Harris was stopped by officers of the Jonesboro Police Department and officers of the Second Judicial Drug Task Force (DTF) on U.S. Highway 63. The officers were acting on a confidential informant’s tip that Appellee was carrying cocaine and marijuana in his truck from…