United States v. Artemio Vega, Glenn Early, Erwin Rios, and Adolfo Medina

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• concluding that a Terry stop lasting 62 minutes was not a de facto arrest because “part of that 62 minutes consisted of waiting for the narcotics sniffing dog to arrive.”
• concluding that a Terry stop lasting 62 minutes was not a de facto arrest because “part of that 62 minutes consisted of waiting for the narcotics sniffing dog to arrive.”
• holding that a Terry stop did not become an arrest when officers drew their weapons and detained a suspect in a squad car for over an hour
• holding that defendant’s stop was “not tanta- mount to an arrest” notwithstanding that “the officers drew their weapons, asked [the defendant] to accompany them [back to the crime scene] in one of their cars,” and kept him in the officer’s vehicle for over an hour
• determining that a 62-minute delay was reasonable given the defendant initially consented to a search of a garage but then changed his mind and a drug-sniffing dog was called to examine the defendant’s car
• police asked suspect to return to site of possible narcotics transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).