State v. Belanger

Joseph Belanger appeals his second degree burglary conviction alleging error in the trial court's refusal to suppress evidence. We affirm.

The unchallenged findings of fact which we accept as verities, State v. Christian, 95 Wn.2d 655, 628 P.2d 806 (1981), support the court's ruling. At approximately 6:15 on a Sunday morning Officer Hranac was patrolling a section of Aberdeen wherein were located a number of pawnshops and where there had been a rash of recent burglaries. The officer observed defendant, who appeared to be a transient, in the company of one Huddleston, also known to the officer…