State v. Castillo

McCULLOUGH, Judge.

*328 The State appeals from an order allowing Jeffrey Castillo's ("defendant's") motion to suppress the search of his vehicle entered by the trial court on 22 April 2015. After careful review, we reverse.

I. Background

On 26 September 2014, Officer Roy Green, a 15-year veteran Durham Police Department officer assigned to the highway interdiction division of the special operations division was parked on an exit ramp monitoring the southbound lanes of I-85 near the Durham-Orange county border. Officer Green testified that he patrols the I-85 corridor looking for people who might be…