Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, motion to suppress granted and case remanded to the trial court for proceedings not inconsistent herewith.
In our opinion, the search of defendant's suitcases prior to his arrest was unreasonable and unauthorized. The circumstances of this case gave rise neither to probable cause to arrest nor to a reasonable suspicion sufficient to justify a "frisk" of defendant (cf. Brinegar v. United States,
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