BROWN, P.J.
Charles Nels Axelson appeals from a judgment of conviction, claiming that the Walworth County Sheriff's Department conducted an untimely and therefore unreasonable inventory search of his impounded vehicle. Axelson thus argues that the items found during inventory and used at his trial should have been suppressed. We hold that a three-day hiatus between impounding and inventorying a vehicle does not render a warrantless inventory search illegal.
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