Opinion ID: 6534115
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Heading: Informant Tip

Text: [¶46] Deputy Colling testified that he had a citizen source with whom he had spoken a few months before he stopped Mr. Pier, and that source told him that Mr. Pier was actively selling drugs in Albany County. In evaluating the weight to be given an informant's tip, we have said: Reliance upon an informant's tip is reasonable if the tip contains sufficient 'indicia of reliability'  such as predicting another person's future behavior, relating to specific information showing the informant's knowledge of that person's affairs, and so long as the police can corroborate some portion of the tip. Venegas v. State , 2012 WY 136 , ¶ 9, 287 P.3d 746 , 749 (Wyo. 2012) (citation omitted); see also Tucker, ¶ 26, 214 P.3d at 244 (relying on informant tip in probable cause analysis where agents heard recorded conversation corroborating information). [¶47] The tip Deputy Colling testified to was months old, and it lacked any specific information concerning Mr. Pier. Moreover, Deputy Colling admitted on cross-examination that he had taken no steps to verify the reliability of his informant or the reliability of the informant's tip. I view this information as irrelevant and entitled to no weight in the Court's probable cause analysis. 6