Owens v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged in two counts for trafficking in cocaine and for violating Georgia’s Controlled Substances Act (possession of less than one ounce of marijuana). The evidence adduced at a motion to suppress hearing revealed the following:

While working in plain-clothing at the Atlanta airport, Agent Terrell Toles of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Airport Task Force observed defendant deplane from a flight arriving from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Defendant was dressed casually and he was carrying “a small suitcase . . . .” As defendant approached airline…