Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Segun WALDRON, aka Patrick Miller, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-09-09
Citations: 449 F. App'x 680
Docket Number: No. 10-50435
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Segun WALDRON, aka Patrick Miller, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and SEEBORG, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 449
Pages: 680–681

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Segun WALDRON, aka Patrick Miller, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-50435.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Aug. 29, 2011.
Filed Sept. 9, 2011.
Brianna J. Fuller, Assistant Federal Public Defender, FPDCA-Federal Public Defender’s Office, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before: SCHROEDER and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and SEEBORG, District Judge.
The Honorable Richard Seeborg, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Según Waldron appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a search of his vehicle, a black H2 Hummer. Following the denial of his motion, Waldron entered a conditional guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A), but reserved the right to appeal the denial of the motion to suppress. We affirm.
"Under the automobile exception . police may conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle if there is probable cause to believe that the vehicle contains evidence of a crime." United States v. Brooks, 610 F.3d 1186,1193 (9th Cir.2010). "Probable cause to search is evaluated in light of the totality of the circumstances." Id. at 1193-94 (quoting United States v. Pinela-Hernandez, 262 F.3d 974, 978 (9th Cir.2001)) (internal quotation marks omitted). The investigating agents drew upon multiple sources to establish probable cause to search Waldron's vehicle. They had information from a reliable confidential informant that the Hummer contained contraband. See United States v. Elliott, 322 F.3d 710, 715-16 (9th Cir.2003). The information was corroborated by both innocent and suspicious circumstances indicating the presence of contraband. The agents ran a trained narcotics dog around the exterior of the Hummer before searching the vehicle, and the dog gave a positive alert — indicating that it smelled narcotics. See United States v. Cedano-Arellano, 332 F.3d 568, 573 (9th Cir.2003).
Based on the totality of the circumstances — the corroborated confidential informant, the dog alert, and Waldron's suspicious behavior — the district court correctly found that there was probable cause to believe that Waldron's Hummer contained evidence of drug trafficking. See Brooks, 610 F.3d at 1193-94.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.