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State v. Williams

The officer had probable cause to arrest the defendant for obstruction after the defendant fled when the officer informed him that he was the suspect in a theft, and the trial court therefore erred in suppressing the statement the defendant made after his arrest.

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The State appeals the trial court’s decision granting Michael Lloyd Williams’s motion to suppress the admission of a statement he provided after his arrest for obstruction. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

At the hearing on the admissibility of Williams’s statements, Deputy Wesley Aaron, the only witness at the hearing, testified that on March 9, 2014, he was dispatched to investigate a forced entry and burglary of a metal shop owned by Angie and Travis Wilkerson. Aaron spoke to Travis Wilkerson and learned that several items had been taken from the shop, including chains and chain bucks. Wilkerson told Aaron that a person had told him that Williams had some chains and bucks that supposedly had been stolen from Wilkerson at a property not far from Wilkerson’s shop. On cross examination, Aaron was asked, So basically, Mr. Wilkerson heard some gossip or some talk that Mr. Williams might have information about this case, and you went out there to talk to him about it Aaron replied, Not exactly at that time. I talked to the source that he got his information from before – At that point, defense counsel interrupted Aaron and moved on to another point. On redirect examination, the State did not ask any follow-up questions about the source of the information.

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