Following a stipulated bench trial, Johnny Garcia Lopez appeals his conviction for trafficking in methamphetamine, arguing that the court erred in denying his motion to suppress contraband found on his person during a search incident to an arrest. He claims that police did not have probable cause to arrest him without a warrant. We hold that the information supplied by an informant authorized the arrest where several indicia supported the informant’s reliability; accordingly, we affirm. When reviewing a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we apply the “any evidence” standard:A trial court’s order on a motion to suppress will not be disturbed if there is any evidence to support it, and the trial court’s decision with regard to questions of fact and credibility must be accepted unless clearly erroneous. We construe all evidence presented in favor of the trial court’s findings and judgment.Punctuation omitted. Fleming v. State .1 See Tate v. State .2
So construed, the evidence shows that police arrested and charged a well-known drug dealer with trafficking in methamphetamine. Seeking leniency, the dealer offered to provide police information as to his supplier, which offer police accepted. With an officer present and supervising the phone call, the dealer phoned his supplier, who lived in Sandy Springs, Georgia and went by the name “Jose,” and set up a drug buy at a Waffle House parking lot in Stockbridge, Georgia. The dealer informed the officer that the drug buy would take place later that evening, and that his supplier was a young Hispanic male who would drive up in a dark-colored mid-to-late 90s model Mustang vehicle. Around 9:00 p.m., the supplier called the dealer and said he was getting off the freeway and within moments would be at the Waffle House parking lot; the dealer told the supplier to pull into the parking lot and wait where, unbeknownst to the supplier, the informant was already sitting with police in a vehicle.