State v. Stites

ANNABELLE CLINTON IMBER, Justice.

[ i This interlocutory appeal by the State arises from an order entered by the Sebastian County Circuit Court granting Appel-lee Shane Patton Stites’s motion to suppress evidence discovered inside a locked safe during the execution of a search warrant at Appellee’s residence. For the reasons stated below, we reverse and remand.

According to testimony elicited at the suppression hearing, Detective Wayne Barnett of the Fort Smith Police Department received information from a confidential informant that Appellee was involved in the use and sale of methamphetamine…