Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
A quantity of cocaine was seized as the result of a United States Customs Patrol Officer's pat-down search of the defendant in a private room in the Customs area of the airport. A Customs officer who performs a thorough pat-down search as part of her border-patrolling activities, as here, must have some articulable suspicion to justify the intrusion, but the amount of suspicion required at that stage is minimal (see, ...
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