City of Warrensville Hts. v. Toth

This is an appeal by the City of Warrens-ville Heights from a decision of the Bedford Municipal Court granting defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained by the police while inventorying the contents of his impounded vehicle under the following circumstances. On April 5, 1973, a Warrensville patrolman arrested the defendant on a traffic charge, viz. entering an intersection against a red light and operating an automobile on a temporary permit unaccompanied by a licensed driver. After a lieutenant arrived at the scene in response to the patrolman’s radio call, the patrolman frisked the…