State v. Garcia

ORR, Judge.

On 24 April 1991, defendant and Elizabeth Pena were arrested at the Raleigh bus station by two State Bureau of Investigation agents and a Wake County Sheriffs Office detective. The evidence at trial, presented only by the State, tended to show the facts as follows. The officers were conducting a drug interdiction exercise at the bus station, whereby certain southbound passengers were asked to display their tickets, state their origin and destination, and identify their luggage. Defendant and Elizabeth Pena exited the bus from New York separately. The officers questioned defendant,…