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Davis v. State of Ga.

A controlled buy which resulted in defendant's arrest for cocaine trafficking supported issuance of a warrant to search his apartment and vehicles.

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Alphonso Davis appeals after a bench trial from the trial court’s order denying his motion to suppress evidence and granting the State’s forfeiture complaints as to five items of personal property seized when executing a search warrant for Davis’s home and cars.1 Davis raises ten enumerations of error, none of which we find meritorious. We therefore affirm the trial court’s ruling and judgment.

Construed to support the judgment, the evidence presented showed that Davis was arrested in DeKalb County for trafficking in cocaine after a controlled buy was set up by DeKalb law enforcement officers using a confidential informant. DeKalb County officers had been informed by law enforcement officers in Greene County that a traffic stop there had revealed cocaine, the source of which was an apartment in DeKalb County. The person arrested in the Greene County traffic stop disclosed his source, and during the investigation of this information, DeKalb County officers became aware of Davis through a confidential informant. The informant told the officers that Davis had been delivering a kilo of cocaine to him twice a month for the past two years, described Davis, and informed the officers that Davis usually carried the cocaine “tucked in his pants or in a bag.” The confidential informant stated that although Davis had several addresses, every time Davis made a delivery he came from Cobb County. The informant also told officers that Davis would make these deliveries using one of three vehicles: a green Jeep Cherokee, a red Volvo, or a BMW, and that in the past he had come armed and had displayed the weapon.

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