United States v. Chavel Sterling

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• noting that it was not feasible for an agent to leave to summon a canine unit
• encounter ripened into investigatory stop when officers advised defendant that her bag will be detained for canine sniff
• defendant's arrival from a city known as a source of drugs, her nervousness, fact that she lied to officers about details of her travel, and fit the \profile\ of a drug courier gave officers reasonable suspicion sufficient to justify detention of her suitcase.
• investigative detention must be properly limited in scope

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).