Commonwealth v. Buchert

OPINION BY

BOWES, J.:

The Commonwealth appeals from the trial court order suppressing the seizure of a firearm during a traffic interdiction.1 We reverse.

The suppression court delineated the salient facts as follows.

*912At approximately 12:15 a.m. on July 15, 2011, Officer [Edward] McConnell and his partner, Officer Shevlin, were on duty in the area of 3000 North 5th Street in Philadelphia. Around that time, Officer McConnell spotted a 1996 black Nissan Maxima traveling north on the 3000 block of North 5th Street with a broken tail light. Officer McConnell activated his overhead lights and pulled…