United States v. Cynthia Torres

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

The government brings this interlocutory appeal from an order of the District Court for the Western District of New York, John T. Elfvin, Judge, which suppressed evidence of 2.5 grams of heroin discovered in a shoulder bag in the possession of defendant Cynthia Torres after she disembarked from an overnight express bus from New York City. We reverse.

Undisputed testimony at the suppression hearing established the following facts:

Because law enforcement agents have found the overnight express bus from New York City to be a means of transporting illegal drugs to the…