STATE v. BROWN

No. 89-01707.

556 So.2d 790 (1990)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Phillip BROWN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Anne Y. Swing, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Kevin Briggs, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The state appeals an order granting appellee Phillip Brown's motion to suppress cocaine. We reverse.

On December 8, 1988, a reliable informant advised a Lakeland detective that two people in the area of Fifth and Kettles Streets (a "high drug area") were selling rock cocaine. The informant described both persons, one male and one female, as well as the automobile they were using. He also gave the man's "street name" of "Playboy." The detective...

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