State v. Parks

¶1 Tyler Parks failed to appear as promised at a scheduled hearing in municipal court on the charge of minor in possession of alcohol. The court ordered the issuance of a bench warrant for his arrest. Diming a search incident to the arrest on the bench warrant, the police found cocaine in his pocket. Parks was convicted of posses*234sion of a controlled substance after an unsuccessful motion to suppress. Because the record does not show that a court ever found probable cause to support the underlying offense, the bench warrant for his arrest was invalid and the fruits of the search incident to…