Opinion ID: 1730903
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Text: In the third case, Flowers, a detective received a telephone call from an informant who had previously proven reliable and with whom the detective had worked for years: The C.I. told [the detective] that the C.I. had just observed a woman named Sandra inside a parked green Oldsmobile Cutlass and that she was in possession of cocaine. The C.I. gave the address where the car could be found, the tag number of the car and where on the woman's body the cocaine could be found. The detective and another officer went immediately to the address given by the C.I. where they saw the appellee in the situation described by the C.I. They took her into custody and a search of her person done at the police station by female officers resulted in finding a cocaine rock where the C.I. had said it would be. 566 So.2d at 51. The district court then reasoned: In situations where the police rely upon known and reliable informants to aid them in detecting crime, as long as the information is sufficiently detailed and the police can verify the details except for the final one of the commission of the crime, the detention and search based upon this information will be upheld because probable cause will have been furnished. State v. Brown, 556 So.2d 790 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990), and State v. Edwards, 547 So.2d 183 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989). Id. The court upheld the arrest and search because the details of the tip in the case are easily as detailed, if not more so, than in Brown and Edwards.  Id.