Commonwealth v. Brown

OPINION BY

KLEIN, J.:

¶ 1 The Commonwealth appeals from the order of the respected trial judge, the Honorable Harold M. Kane, granting a motion to suppress evidence.1 We affirm.

¶2 Following a tip from an informant that a white male named “Tom” would be at Grant and Academy Streets in Philadelphia between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. to distribute drugs, the officers went to that location. Thomas Brown arrived, left his car empty-handed, returned with a brown paper bag and drove away. As the officers stopped him, they found a bottle of pills in the front seat and, after obtaining a search warrant, they…