Opinion ID: 752090
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Heading: Suppression of the Pager

Text: 32 Charles next claims that the district court should have suppressed the pager that the police confiscated from the white Buick during his arrest. He alleges that the police had neither probable cause nor a warrant to seize the pager. Charles was driving the white Buick when the marshals arrested him on December 22, 1995. The pager was the only item seized by the police during the arrest. 33 The Supreme Court in New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454, 101 S.Ct. 2860, 69 L.Ed.2d 768 (1981), established that when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of the arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile. Id. at 460, 101 S.Ct. at 2864. At the time of the arrest, Charles was driving the white Buick and the pager was located near the passenger seat. Thus, the district court correctly admitted the pager into evidence.