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Ryan Brandt and William Kollie were tried by a Gwinnett County jury and convicted of crimes arising from a home invasion and two restaurant robberies. They previously appealed their convictions, and as to Brandt, we vacated the denial of his motion to suppress and remanded for reconsideration of that motion in light of Arizona v. Gant , 556 U. S. 332 129 SC 1710, 173 LE2d 485 2009, a decision that came down while the appeal was pending. See Kollie v. State , 301 Ga. App. 534, 547 15 687 SE2d 869 2009. On remand, the court below again denied the motion to suppress, and Brandt appeals for a second time. Finding no error in the denial of the motion to suppress, we affirm. When we review the denial of a motion to suppress, we owe no deference to the way in which the court below resolved questions of law, Barrett v. State , 289 Ga. 197, 200 1 709 SE2d 816 2011, but we accept its findings about questions of fact and credibility unless clearly erroneous, and we view the evidence in the light most favorable to its findings and judgment. Culpepper v. State , 312 Ga. App. 115, 115-116 717 SE2d 698 2011. So viewed, the evidence in this case shows that, early on the morning of November 4, 2005, Gwinnett County Police officers were advised by radio that an Applebee’s restaurant, located on Ronald Reagan Parkway in Snellville, had just been robbed and that Snellville Police officers were responding to the armed robbery.1 One Gwinnett County officer, who happened to be patrolling Ronald Reagan Parkway when he heard the dispatch, started to drive toward the restaurant, thinking that perhaps he could be of help to the Snellville officers. As this officer drove along Ronald Reagan Parkway, he passed a second Gwinnett County officer, who was parked on the opposite side of the road. A few moments later, the first officer met a black truck, which was occupied by two men, later identified as Kollie and Brandt, and was traveling away from the location of the restaurant at a high rate of speed. The first officer slowed and put a spotlight on the truck, and as the truck passed him, it suddenly accelerated. The first officer turned around and attempted to catch up to the truck, and as he did so, the truck passed the second officer, who also noted that the truck was traveling at a high rate of speed and observed the driver momentarily lose control of the truck.

The second officer stopped the truck, and the first officer arrived a few moments later at the scene of the stop. As the second officer approached the truck on foot and obtained the license of Kollie, the driver, the officers began to overhear additional radio dispatches about the armed robbery of the restaurant. According to these dispatches, two black men, one wearing a white shirt and black jeans, the other wearing a light-colored shirt and a red bandana on his head, had robbed the restaurant and were believed to be driving a black, Harley-Davidson edition, Ford pickup truck. The officers realized that the truck they had stopped and its occupants matched exactly the descriptions contained in the radio dispatches, and at first, they decided to await the arrival of additional officers before doing anything else. But before anyone else arrived, the officers observed Brandt moving frantically about the cab of the truck, reaching repeatedly toward the center console and looking over his shoulder at the officers.

 
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