State of Florida v. Thomas Marvin Lord

The State appeals an order granting the motion to suppress filed by appellee, Thomas Marvin Lord. We reverse.

The evidence at the suppression hearing showed that asset-protection employees at a Walmart in Pensacola called an officer from the Pensacola Police Department, Lieutenant Chuck Mallett, who was working off-duty for the store, and told him there had been a shoplifting incident in which a person had stolen spark plugs and had left the store. Lt. Mallett got into his unmarked police vehicle and drove around the parking lot until he saw the pickup truck the Walmart employee was describing…