UNITED STATES v. FRANCESCO

No. 83-1414.

725 F.2d 817 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Peter L. FRANCESCO, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myer J. Cohen, Boston, Mass., with whom Paul J. Redmond, and Rosemary K. Redmond, Lincoln, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Kevin E. Sharkey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Concord, N.H., with whom W. Stephen Thayer, III, U.S. Atty., Concord, N.H., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

On December 14, 1982 on the basis of an informant's tip, agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"), maintained surveillance on defendant-appellant Peter Francesco. They observed the defendant drive his car from his residence in Arlington, Massachusetts to the Hampton Toll Plaza in New Hampshire. The DEA officials arrested the defendant immediately upon entering a parking area in the toll plaza. A brown paper package was recovered...

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