United States v. Airrington Sykes

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

After the government indicted Airrington Sykes for being a felon in possession of a firearm, see 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1), he moved to suppress evidence that a police officer obtained after he stopped Sykes and frisked him. When the district court 1 denied the motion, Sykes pleaded guilty to the charge but reserved his right to appeal the denial of his motion. He appeals and we affirm.

On a December evening just shy of midnight, a police officer in Waterloo, Iowa, was dispatched to a 24-hour laundromat where he met a woman in the parking lot who reported finding a loaded…