People v. Serabie

This is a motion by the defendant to suppress evidence seized aboard a ship at Pier 3 in Brooklyn, from his person and his compartment, without a search warrant.

The application is made upon the ground that the search was unreasonable in that there was no probable cause for believing that defendant had committed a crime nor was the search incidental to a lawful arrest. The defendant was granted a hearing at which the following evidence was adduced:

Thomas Gibbons testified that he is a Customs Port Investigator, a ship searcher, employed by the United States Treasury, Bureau of Customs; on…