State v. Hillman

STRINGER, Judge.

The State challenges an order granting Larry Hillman’s motion to suppress cocaine seized during a consensual search. We reverse because the officers had a reasonable suspicion that justified the investigatory stop.

On April 28, 1998, Officer Heck received information from a known confidential informant who had been used and found reliable on approximately eight prior occasions. The informant said that he had been in the Kennel Club Bar and heard a black male known as “Step Daddy” and a white female talking about going up to North.Greenwood, a high crime area, to purchase…