Opinion ID: 2998977
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Officer Timothy Butterfield

Text: On January 20, 2004, a resident reported “an abnormal smell” coming from one of the apartments at 1018 Delavan Street, Lincoln, Illinois. Officer Timothy Butterfield responded and followed “a chemical odor” that “would burn your nose” to the second floor of the complex. Butterfield eventually tracked the odor to Apartment 4 and spoke to Daniel Julius, the tenant. When Julius opened the door, Butterfield testified, he could also see a “white male with long hair,” whom he would identify as Stoneking, inside the apartment. Julius explained to the officer that the chemical odor was coming from his apartment because he had just poured “a bottle of Drano down his tub to free the clogged drain.” Julius invited Butterfield inside, but the officer testified that he felt that the strength of the odor was inconsistent with Julius’ explanation, and that because he suspected the smell was actually coming from a meth lab “for my personal safety I decided not to go in.” Officer Butterfield suspected, based on his past dealings with methamphetamine labs, that Julius was probably manufacturing the drug in his apartment. Butterfield left the complex and went to the local police station, where he met Inspector Jay Kitner of the Central Illinois Enforcement Group and explained the situation. Butterfield then returned to the apartment complex with Kitner and another inspector. They arrived at roughly the same time as Corporal Mark Coons, Butterfield’s supervisor. Butterfield testified that he observed two people inside a car in the parking lot. He recognized the man in the passenger’s seat as Julius, the resident of Apartment 4, and the driver as the “long-haired” man he had seen there. At the suppression hearing Butterfield confirmed that Stoneking was the man he had seen in the apartment and in the driver’s seat of the No. 05-2609 Page 3 car.1 Butterfield testified that Kitner approached Julius and engaged him in discussion “about a possible meth lab in the apartment.” Julius invited the officers to search the apartment, and Butterfield accompanied Kitner, the other inspector, and Julius inside. Only Coons and Stoneking stayed behind. Butterfield did not say whether Stoneking was still in the car at this point, or whether Coons and Stoneking had encountered each other yet.