Commonwealth v. Johnson

¶ 1 Jermaine Johnson appeals from his mandatory sentence of two to four years for Possession With Intent to Deliver marijuana. He claims the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence. He argues that the police first should have obtained an anticipatory search warrant. Whether or not that might have been possible, since we find this was an investigatory stop and not an arrest, is irrelevant. His second argument is that this was an arrest rather than an investigatory stop, essentially because the officers drew their guns before approaching the car of a suspected drug dealer.…