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U.S. v. BELL

No. 96-1072SI.

86 F.3d 820 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Theophilis BELL, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret R. Stuart, Des Moines, IA, argued (Alfredo Parrish and Maggi Moss, on brief), for appellant.

Lester Alan Paff, Asst. U.S. Atty., Des Moines, argued (Clifford Wendel, Asst. U.S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before FAGG, JOHN R. GIBSON, and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.

FAGG, Circuit Judge.

Theophilis Bell appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress cocaine base seized after his arrest on a traffic charge. We affirm.

Bell was spotted riding a bicycle at night without a headlamp by two Des Moines police officers assigned to a drug and gang investigation unit. Bell was in a high-crime area where police had adopted a policy of not tolerating any statutory violations to combat drug activity. The officers knew...

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