STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY v. HOLGUIN

Nos. 3D04-2584, 3D04-2236.

909 So.2d 956 (2005)

The STATE of Florida DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES, Appellant, v. Oscar HOLGUIN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

August 31, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Frank J. Ingrassia, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Frederick C. Sake, Miami Beach; John H. Lipinski, for appellee.

Before RAMIREZ, CORTIÑAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


CORTIÑAS, Judge.

The State of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles ("State") appeals from an adverse final judgment in which the trial court found no probable cause that money seized during a traffic stop was used in connection with the purchase and/or sale of illegal narcotics when a narcotics-detection K-9 unit dog ("dog") alerted to the seized money but no drugs were ever found. We reverse.

Oscar Holguin ("Holguin") was stopped for...

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