Commonwealth v. Tucker

OPINION BY

PANELLA, J.:

¶ 1 The Commonwealth appeals from the order entered on April 28, 2004, by the Honorable Joseph A. Dych, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, which granted the suppression motion of Appel-lee, Romel Tucker.1 After careful review, we reverse.

¶2 On December 21, 2003, at approximately 11:00 a.m., Officer George Burgess of the Philadelphia Police Department was conducting surveillance2 of the 800 block of East Madison Street3 in the City of Philadelphia. The surveillance operation had its genesis in “[n]umerous roll call complaints of drug activity on that block and…