Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Hedley George CROOKS, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-02-19
Citations: 483 So. 2d 513
Docket Number: No. 85-545
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Hedley George CROOKS, Appellee.
Judges: LETTS and GLICKSTEIN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 483
Pages: 513–513

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Hedley George CROOKS, Appellee.
No. 85-545.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Feb. 19, 1986.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Sarah B. Mayer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Dennis J. Cary of Maurice Graham, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The trial court suppressed the evidence in this case. We reverse. The evidence at the hearing on the motion to suppress reflects an anonymous tip that a red Ford Tempo, Florida license ZGX-653, carrying narcotics, was possibly traveling northbound on the Turnpike from Hialeah to Vero Beach. The dispatch to the trooper making the stop in Broward County followed communication from the Dade County Public Safety Department, which received the tip. Actually, the license plate was ZQZ-683. It need not be exactly correct in order to be reliable. See Romanoff v. State, 391 So.2d 783 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980).
LETTS and GLICKSTEIN, JJ., concur.
WALDEN, J., dissents without opinion.