State v. Wilson

Beasley, Judge.

Wilson was arrested and charged with burglary (OCGA § 16-7-1) and possession of tools for the commission of a crime (OCGA § 16-7-20). The trial court granted his motion to suppress a screw driver, razor, clothes, an undetermined amount of money taken from him, and testimony about the fruits of the search, on the basis that the underlying warrantless arrest was made without probable cause.

At the hearing an officer with the Jesup Police Department testified that about 10:00 p.m. he responded to a dispatch that a burglar alarm was going off at the drug store and arrived about one…