Opinion ID: 2974239
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Heading: Police Officers and Crime Lab Specialists

Text: Several police officers with the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Valley Enforcement Team testified about an investigation of Oreanda Hall (a.k.a. “Renny”) that started in 2001. Officers executed several search warrants on various residences in Kalamazoo. The first residence searched was Paketta Cannon’s, at 1817 Shire Lane, where police found drug dealing paraphernalia (baggies, digital scales, etc.), crack cocaine, a gun, and documents with Hall’s name on them. Several months later, in February 2002, police searched another residence belonging to Cannon, 1427 Concord Place, where they found handguns, ammunition, and a safe. Inside the safe were crack and powder cocaine, digital scales, and a receipt with the name “Renny” on it. Also on this same day and into the early hours of the next morning, police searched a residence belonging to Marlo Gill, 113 Wall, where police found crack cocaine in a car parked in the driveway. On the same day the search of the Wall address was completed, officers visited Bowen at his -8- Nos. 05-1706, 05-1795 United States v. Bowen, et al. probation officer’s office. When asked where he was staying, Bowen started to say “536” but then said “504 Clinton”, which was his mother’s residence. Later that same day, officers searched an apartment at 536 Bosker, and found drug dealing paraphernalia (Pyrex containers known to be used to cook powder cocaine into crack, digital scales, baggies, etc.), and a firearm and ammunition, as well as recent cable bills for service at the Bosker address in the name of Bowen and an income tax return for Bowen that claimed a state homestead property tax credit for renting a home at 536 Bosker. No cocaine was found at this address. Officers testified they did not see Bowen at any of these addresses when they searched them, and only found the cable and tax documents related to him at the Bosker address, but no other documents relating to him at the other residences. Several crime lab specialists also testified the substances seized from the residences were in fact crack and powder cocaine in various quantities.