State v. Velez

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

We reverse the suppression of the cocaine seized following a police stop of the defendants’ vehicle. The trial court held that the stop was “pretextual,” and therefore invalidated a subsequent arrest — and the ensuing Belton1 search — for driving with a suspended license. To the contrary, the stop was entirely justified by the fact that the officer saw the car run at least one red light and travel at sixty miles per hour in a thirty-mile-per-hour zone. Because it is undisputed that these violations would ordinarily have resulted in a stop,2 see Kehoe v. State, 521 So.2d…