Brown v. State

We affirm Appellant’s conviction for trafficking in cocaine. Appellant challenges the denial of his motion to suppress cocaine and marijuana found in the car he was driving, asserting that the information that formed the basis for the investigatory stop was “stale.”

At 11:55 a.m., the morning of the stop, Detective Hyde of the Indian River County Sheriffs Office, was contacted by a reliable confidential informant who advised him that he had personally seen four to six ounces of cocaine in the vehicle that Appellant was driving. Detective Hyde was unable to act on this information immediately…