Garcia v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Appellant, Mario Roberto Garcia, appeals his sentence and judgment of conviction for violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act by trafficking in cocaine.

Appellant came under the observation of DeKalb County Police Detective Terry Toles as he and other passengers were entering Atlanta International Airport from a plane which had just arrived from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Toles, a member of a federal task force assigned to interdict drug trafficking at the airport, was monitoring the arrival of the passengers on this flight because he considered Fort Lauderdale to be a…