United States v. Arenas

OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

On May 28, 1997, defendant Candido Arenas, Jr. was walking with his brother and a friend in lower Manhattan. The three men caught the attention of four New York City police officers, who proceeded to monitor their movements for approximately an hour-and-a-half. Eventually, the three men began walking toward the City Hall subway station, when the officers stopped them. The officers frisked the men incident to the stop, and discovered a firearm in Arenas’s jacket pocket and a clip of ammunition in his right front pants pocket. Later, the officers also found two…