A DeKalb County jury found Stephen Daugherty guilty of armed robbery and aggravated assault. Daugherty appeals, contending that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress and in refusing to give a proposed jury instruction and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. Finding no error, we affirm. 1. Daugherty contends that the trial court should have suppressed evidence in his possession at the time of his arrest because the police did not have probable cause to arrest him. We disagree. We will uphold a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress if there is any evidence to support it, and we construe the evidence in a light favorable to the trial court’s findings and judgment.1 So viewed, the record shows that on February 8, 2003, three men stole Regina Jones’s vehicle, a Toyota 4Runner, from her at gunpoint. As Jones parked her vehicle, two men exited a nearby van and approached her. One man pointed a gun in her face and demanded that she leave the vehicle and give him her keys. This man, identified at trial as “Malik,” was never apprehended. The second man was on the opposite side of her vehicle, and she did not see his face. A third man, who Jones identified at trial as Ricardo Wright, exited the van and approached her. Jones was made to lie on the ground, but then the second man instructed her to get up, pointing a gun at her. She was afraid to look at this man’s face. Because they were unable to start the vehicle, the men made Jones start it. They then fled in Jones’s vehicle and their van. Jones’s purse was still in her vehicle.
Jones immediately reported the carjacking, giving descriptions of the vehicles and the suspects. This description was broadcast to police. Approximately six minutes after the 911 call, Officer Case of the DeKalb County Police Department saw a van and a 4Runner driving together near the scene of the carjacking. The one man in the van and the two men in the 4Runner matched the general description of the suspects. Officer Case called police dispatch and followed the vehicles. He lost sight of the vehicles momentarily, but within about 30 seconds found them parked at the loading dock of a warehouse. Officer Case saw the driver of the van get into the 4Runner, and the vehicle proceeded up an embankment and into another parking lot shared by a church and a Hampton Inn.
