Cote v. Commissioner of Public Safety

SUMMARY OPINION

POPOVICH, Chief Judge.

FACTS

On December 23, 1984, Officer Roger Wipperman, a Westbrook policeman, received a telephone call from the Cottonwood County Sheriffs office. He was informed that a vehicle traveling westbound on a nearby highway with license number CQS 610 had been driving erratically and that the sheriffs office had received a citizen’s complaint.

Officer Wipperman took his personal car and intercepted the vehicle at an intersection approximately one mile outside his jurisdiction. Wipperman followed the car about twelve miles to the City of Currie. Wipperman observed…