United States v. Elson Strahan, Jr.

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a guilty plea on charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. Appellant contends that the district court improperly denied his motion to suppress the cocaine and the firearm. For the reasons stated, we affirm on the cocaine count, but reverse the denial of the motion to suppress the weapon.

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Officer Cecil Wages of the Memphis Police Department received a telephone call on February 22, 1991. The caller related that the defendant, Elson Strahan, recently had been released…