STATE v. STREGARE

No. 90-01022.

576 So.2d 790 (1991)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Peggy J. STREGARE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 4, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Dell E. Edwards, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, and Brad Permar, Asst. Public Defender, Clearwater, for appellee.


PARKER, Judge.

The state appeals a trial court order which granted a motion to suppress cocaine seized during a police stop. We reverse, concluding that the police were justified in seizing and searching the container in which the cocaine was concealed.

The evidence presented to the trial court was as follows. Officers Cooke and McTavish of the St. Petersburg Police Department were assigned to the area of Southview Apartments to crack down on street-level...

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