State v. Triplett

In this prosecution against multiple defendants for conspiracy to traffic in oxyco-done and trafficking in oxycodone, the state appeals from the trial court’s order granting the defendants’ joint motion to suppress evidence obtained after a traffic stop for littering. We reverse.

Deputy Frank Castor of the Broward Sheriffs Office testified at the hearing on the motion to suppress. He said that while patrolling southbound near the Commercial Boulevard and Northwest 31st Avenue intersection in Tamarac he observed an object being tossed out of the window of a minivan. When the minivan pulled into…