State v. Handran

*548WARREN, J.

Defendant was charged with theft in the first degree. ORS 164.055. The state appeals the trial court’s order suppressing evidence seized by the police without a warrant while searching defendant’s apartment for another suspect. We reverse.

At 10:30 p.m., Officer Putnam was dispatched to a Safeway store, where employes told him that two men had stolen four 12-packs of Budweiser beer. The employes described the suspects and estimated their ages to be 16 and 20. Less than two hours later, Putnam responded to a burglary call at an apartment located approximately one block from the…