State v. Ugalde

Sognier, Judge.

The trial court granted Rafael Sosa Ugalde’s motion to suppress evidence seized at the time of his arrest, and the State appeals.

Evidence adduced at the hearing on the motion to suppress reveals that Joseph Dallas, a federal narcotics agent on duty at the Atlanta airport, observed appellee walking up the concourse with a tote bag away from the gate where a flight from Fort Lauderdale, a known drug source city, had just landed. He determined that appellee stopped at another gate to ask for directions for his connecting flight to Knoxville; that only one person, a Rafael Ugalde,…