Case ID: va-cir_14/html/0061-01.html
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Author: {"author": "By JUDGE ALFRED D. SWERSKY", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA
    Commonwealth of Virginia v. Parks
    June 1, 1988
    Cases No. M-8411, F-9524
   By JUDGE ALFRED D. SWERSKY

The Defendant’s Motion to Suppress must be denied. To investigate by questioning, an officer need only a reasonable suspicion that a crime is being committed. See, Section 19.2-83, Code of Virginia. The officer had such reasonable suspicion in this case. The surreptitious actions of the Defendant in concealing the item she had by swallowing it furnished probable cause to arrest her. Therefore, the subsequent search of the Defendant was pursuant to a lawful arrest.