Commonwealth v. Dellicolli

1. The judge erred in allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress. The affidavit of the State police officer was replete with facts from which probable cause to issue a search warrant could be found, not the least of which were the two telephone conversations initiated by the officer to the defendant’s premises during which the informer placed several bets on horse races. See *910Spinelli v. United States, 393 U.S. 410, 416 (1969); Commonwealth v. Alessio, 377 Mass. 76, 82 (1979). The observations of the premises over a considerable period of time, and countless telephone calls which revealed a…