A loaded pistol was seized from a car, driven by defendant—charged as a felon in possession of a firearm—that police detained because it fit the description of a car whose occupants reportedly menaced a woman with a firearm at a nearby supermarket parking lot.
District court’s written Dec. 27, 2019, ruling memorialized its Oct. 30 oral ruling suppressing the pistol as evidence because the degree of force used by police in detaining defendant’s car and its occupants exceeded that permissible for a reasonable investigatory stop and thus was an unlawful de facto arrest not supported by probable cause.
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