Opinion ID: 169091
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Heading: The O ffense Conduct

Text: Four days after officers procured the search warrant, on December 8, 2004, APD officers and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) along w ith Immigration and C ustom Enforcement (ICE) agents executed it. A s the police and agents approached the front door at 245 Glorieta NE, they saw someone looking out the window. They immediately entered the residence and -3- identified themselves as police officers with a search warrant. As they entered, the officers saw M r. Gonzales run from the living room to the kitchen. The officers ordered him to place his hands in the air and to get down on the floor. Instead of complying with the officers’ commands, M r. Gonzales placed his hands into the kitchen sink. The officers subdued Gonzales after a brief struggle. The search of the residence disclosed 15.63 net grams of cocaine base and 23.70 net grams of cocaine powder. Officers also seized a Smith and W esson .38 special caliber revolver w hich they found in a kitchen cabinet. The officers interviewed M r. Gonzales’s girlfriend, who resided with M r. Gonzales. She told the police that, at the time of the raid, M r. Gonzales had been cooking crack cocaine. She stated that he took the firearm with him when he went to sell drugs and that M r. Gonzales usually sold the drugs two blocks from their residence. M r. Gonzales contends that she also stated that the couple lived at 245 G lorieta NE for a month or less.