State v. Basler

The state appeals from a circuit court order suppressing evidence of narcotics seized pursuant to a warrantless search of defendants and their automobile.

The salient facts are as follows: On July 2, 1975, at approximately 11:30 a.m. an anonymous party telephoned Officer Sharp of the Lane Interagency Narcotics Team and informed him that Wayne Basler, a known heroin dealer residing at a specified adress in Seattle, would arrive in Eugene between 5 and 7 p.m. that evening to sell heroin to a Eugene contact. The caller, who gave as his source an unidentified person expecting to purchase heroin…