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finding that the police had probable cause to arrest an individual who was present in a house where and when a drug transaction took place and when an accomplice identified the individual as the drug supplier
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No. 84-296.
November 9, 1984.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Pinellas County, Crockett Farnell, J.
James V. Caltagirone of James V. Caltagirone Associates, P.A., Tampa, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Frank Migliore, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
We affirm the trial court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress cocaine found on the person of defendant after a search incident to his arrest. We disagree with defendant's argument that the police lacked probable cause to arrest defendant who was present in a house where and when a drug transaction took place and who, after being detained, was identified by an accomplice as the drug supplier.
RYDER, C.J., and CAMPBELL, J., concur.