United States v. Barlow

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Ronald Barlow appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized from his automobile abandoned during an armed robbery and his subsequent sentence, which was enhanced under the career armed offender statute, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Finding no error, we affirm.

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On March 9, 1992, at around 8:30 p.m., a man held up a putt-putt golf course in Beaumont, Texas, taking about $230. As the robber left, the owner reached for a hidden gun and pursued the gunman, while yelling for another person to call the police. The bandit was heading in a southerly…