Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dana Craig GALLOWAY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1972-08-01
Citations: 266 So. 2d 53
Docket Number: No. 72-379
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dana Craig GALLOWAY, Appellee.
Judges: Before BARKDULL, C. J., and HEN-DRY and HAVERFIELD, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 266
Pages: 53–54

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dana Craig GALLOWAY, Appellee.
No. 72-379.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Aug. 1, 1972.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 20, 1972.
Richard E. Gerstein, State’s Atty., and Richard Snyder, Asst. State’s Atty., for appellant.
Heiman & Crary and William A. Meadows, Jr., Miami, for appellee.
Before BARKDULL, C. J., and HEN-DRY and HAVERFIELD, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The state brings this interlocutory appeal in a narcotics possession case following the trial court's granting of a defense motion to suppress evidence found during the inventory search of appellee's automobile. The search was one step in a continuum of events that included appellee's arrest for a traffic violation of a character which required the posting of a bond. When the appellee was in custody following his arrest the arresting officer requested a wrecker to remove appellee's vehicle from the roadside. Before impounding the vehicle the officer made an inventory search of the car which revealed a bag of marijuana and appellee was charged with its possession.
The officer had a valid basis upon which to make the arrest and this gave him the authority to conduct the inventory search. State v. Ruggles, Fla.App.1971, 245 So.2d 692. We reverse the trial court's ruling that the marijuana was obtained as a result of an illegal search and seizure on the authority of Godbee v. State, Fla.App.1969, 224 So.2d 441; Knight v. State, Fla.App.1968, 212 So.2d 900; Gagnon v. State, Fla.App.1968, 212 So.2d 337; United States v. Pennington (5th Cir. 1971), 441 F.2d 249. Whereupon the order appealed from is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings.
Reversed and remanded.