State v. Poole, Unpublished Decision (4-28-2000)

OPINION

A non-uniformed Cincinnati police officer, occupying an unmarked automobile, saw a pickup truck occupied by two individuals stop at the side of a public street during the early morning of April 18, 1999. The officer saw the defendant-appellant, Donnell Tyrone Poole, enter the truck and sit in the passenger compartment. According to the officer, the area was one in which he conducted routine patrols because of the high incidence of illicit drug activity and prostitution, and, therefore, he followed the truck for a short distance until it stopped on a dimly lit side street. From a…