United States v. Mendez

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order granting a pretrial motion to suppress cocaine discovered during a post-arrest search of appellee’s suitcase at an airport. A trained narcotics dog had alerted to appellee’s suitcase prior to his arrest and prior to the search of his suitcase. The district court found the arrest illegal and the subsequent search tainted by the failure to give Miranda warnings. In addition, the district court granted the appel-lee’s motion to suppress all statements made by the appellee subsequent to his arrest. The government appeals these rulings. We…