Opinion ID: 3151860
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: A.1, 7, 8 and V.A.1.)

Text: The record supports the exercise of Sgt. Gardner’s discretion to impound the truck as made “according to standard criteria and on the basis of something other than suspicion of evidence of criminal activity.” Bertine, 479 U.S. at 375, 107 S. Ct. at 743. Vladeff had driven the truck on the public road before he stopped at the gas station. It is reasonable to assume that he intended to resume driving the vehicle on the public road immediately after he finished pumping gas and receiving his traffic citations. It was not unreasonable for Sgt. Gardner to impound the truck before Vladeff resumed driving it without a license, registration, and insurance. Nor would it have been a reasonable exercise of Sgt. Gardner’s discretion to simply leave the truck at the gas station for its owner to deal with it or have it turned over to someone not the owner. It presented a hazard to public 6 Case: 15-10947 Date Filed: 11/04/2015 Page: 7 of 7 safety and a risk of vandalism or theft even if lawfully parked because it was parked at a gas station, not at a private residence or parking lot. Therefore, we conclude that the district court correctly denied Vladeff’s motion to suppress on the ground that the shotgun was properly seized pursuant to an authorized inventory search. AFFIRMED. 7