Case ID: so2d_458/html/0422-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Alejandro Ernesto LIMA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 84-296.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    Nov. 9, 1984.
    James V. Caltagirone of James V. Calta-girone & Associates, P.A., Tampa, for appellant.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Frank Migliore, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
   LEHAN, Judge.

We affirm the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to suppress cocaine found on the person of defendant after a search incident to his arrest. We disagree with defendant’s argument that the police lacked probable cause to arrest defendant who was present in a house where and when a drug transaction took place and who, after being detained, was identified by an accomplice as the drug supplier.

RYDER, C.J., and CAMPBELL, J., concur.