United States v. Jay Vee Wanless, A/K/A William Earl Wanless, Douglass Scott Tompkins, Linda Aune, and Michael Eugene Beck

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Fouiv "appellants challenge the district court’s denial of a motion to suppress certain evidence obtained through inventory and investigatory searches of two automobiles. The appellants contend that because the police did not inform the owner of the vehicles that he did not have to consent to the inventory search, the evidence resulting from the search should have been suppressed. They also contend that the remaining evidence was insufficient to establish probable cause to allow the police to search the two vehicles. We agree.1

FACTS2

After being alerted by an air…