U.S. v. TUGWELL

No. 97-1011.

125 F.3d 600 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Otis TUGWELL, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Flynn, Assistant Federal Public Defender, St. Louis, MO, argued, for Appellant.

Dean Hoag, Assistant U.S. Attorney, St. Louis, MO, argued, for Appellee.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.


WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Otis Tugwell appeals from the district court's1 denial of his motion to suppress. We affirm.

I.

On May 4, 1996, Tugwell arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, from Los Angeles, California, on a Greyhound bus. An interdiction team consisting of five St. Louis police officers, one United States customs officer, and a drug-sniffing dog, met the bus at the St. Louis station. Prior to the passengers' departing...

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