U.S. v. SIMON

No. 87-1511.

842 F.2d 552 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Alister Henderson SIMON, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Inserni, Hato Rey, P.R., by Appointment of the Court, for defendant, appellant.

Jose Gaztambide, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Daniel F. Lopez Romo, U.S. Atty., and Warren Vazquez, Asst. U.S. Atty., Hato Rey, P.R., were on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, BREYER and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

On December 31, 1986, federal customs officers in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with the help of a drug-sniffing dog, searched a British West Indies Airlines flight that had stopped briefly in San Juan enroute from Jamaica to Antigua. They found a package containing 55 pounds of marijuana. The package had a BWIA address sticker on it with the name and address in Antigua of defendant Alister Henderson Simon. Also printed on the box were the name "DR...

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