In a joint trial, William Dixon and William Harrison were convicted of theft by taking. Harrison was found guilty of also violating a limited driving permit. In this combined appeal, Dixon and Harrison challenge the sufficiency of evidence and the denial of their ineffective assistance of counsel claims. They also contest the legality of their arrests and the search of the vehicle. In addition, Dixon claims that the trial court erred in dismissing his motion to suppress and that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to renew his motion to suppress at trial, and by failing to object to illegally admitted evidence. After review, we find no error and affirm. On appeal, Dixon and Harrison no longer enjoy the presumption of innocence and the evidence must be viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict.1 When so considered, the evidence shows that after midnight on July 27, 2000, Lauren Sneed, who was spending the night at the home of Paul and Paula Mahedy, noticed the activation of an exterior motion detector light. Suspicious, Sneed looked outside and saw two men pulling the Mahedys’ utility trailer out of their driveway. One man was wearing dark clothing and the other had light-colored clothes. Sneed and the Mahedys’ daughter hurried to tell the Mahedys about the theft in progress. Paul Mahedy grabbed his car keys to his Chevrolet Suburban, as Paula Mahedy went outside where she saw “a white full size truck” with what appeared to be “a tool chest” on the back pulling the trailer away. She conveyed that information to a 911dispatcher. While following the white pickup pulling his trailer, Mahedy noticed that the truck had a “really loud” exhaust system. While driving on a wooded and curvy road, he lost sight of the pickup. On a hunch, Mahedy turned down a nearby dead-end street. There, he discovered his trailer abandoned beside the road.
When Deputy Greg Warnack arrived, he observed a tire print that appeared to be from the vehicle that had left the trailer behind. After conferring with Mahedy, Warnack radioed a lookout for a full-sized white pickup truck with a loud muffler system.
