Martin GOODMAN, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Robert C. Stone of Stone & Dell, P.A., Hollywood, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Russell S. Bohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
HERSEY, Judge.
Goodman appeals from his conviction and sentence for the crime of possession of over 100 pounds of cannabis with intent to deliver.
We first dispose of the sentence which provides for seven years of incarceration to be followed by five years of probation. Split sentences involving both incarceration and probation came under the scrutiny of our Suprеme Court in Villery v. Florida Parole and Probation Commission,
Of the six points raised which relate to the conviction itself we consider only the *1121 first at length. Thе remaining points either were not adequately preserved for appeal or were not sufficiently meritoriоus on this record to warrant discussion.
Goodman questions the legality of an initial stop and frisk. This issue was raised in pretrial motions and at trial. We find that the arresting officer had both the authority and the necessary founded suspicion to make the stоp in question. Since no evidence is alleged to have resulted from an illegal frisk we consider that aspect of the issue moot.
Goodman was stopped by Sergeant Ortenzo of the Fort Lauderdale police department at a location outside the city limits. The relevant and material facts essential to an examination into the legality of that stop unfold in the following fashion.
Ortenzo, along with two other officers of the Fort Lauderdale policе department, was instructed by his superior officer to go to a certain location within the city limits and to assist the sheriff's department in making a drug arrest at that location. A van loaded with marijuana was seized and the driver arrested. The police learned that the marijuana had been picked up from the garage of a dwelling located outside thе city limits. Sergeant Ortenzo was instructed by a deputy sheriff to proceed to that location and secure the premises. The house in question was located on a dead-end street terminating in a cul de sac, so that there was no through traffic.
Goodman, owner of the dwelling in question, obtained a ride with one Hawkins, a neighbor, and they approached the premises in Hawkins' automobile. According to Sergeant Ortenzo's testimony, the automobile appeared to slow as though to pull into the driveway and then suddenly changed course and continued down the street with both male ocсupants staring intently at the house, even when they passed within two feet of Sergeant Ortenzo. The vehicle negotiated the cul de sac and approached the house from the opposite direction, the occupаnts continuing to look at the dwelling. At this point, Sergeant Ortenzo stopped the vehicle. There is testimony that a deputy shеriff was at that time in close proximity to the vehicle.
Goodman takes the position that Sergeant Ortenzo was without аuthority to make this stop outside the municipal limits of the city of Fort Lauderdale. The trial court held that the officer did have such authority and we agree.
Ortenzo had been requested to aid the sheriff's department in effecting an arrest аnd in securing premises related causually, if not geographically, to that arrest. By virtue of Section 901.18, Florida Statutes (1979), Ortenzo had, under these circumstances, the same authority as that of the deputy sheriffs. This authority encompassed any lаwful act necessary to investigation of circumstances surrounding that arrest and the related premises, including the stop in question here. Another source of Ortenzo's authority is his position as a municipal officer conducting an investigatiоn outside his territorial jurisdiction, the subject matter of which originated in his own jurisdiction. See State v. Chapman,
The second prong of our inquiry, then, is whether the facts establish the basis for such a founded suspicion. The proper test, аrticulated in State v. Stevens,
To justify temporary detention, only `founded suspicion' in the mind of the detaining officer is required... . A `founded suspiciоn' is a suspicion which has some factual foundation in the circumstances observed by the officer, when those circumstances are interpreted in the light of the officer's knowledge.
The Stevens court, in addressing the issue of whether mere or barе suspicion is enough to support detention, further stated that:
*1122 There will be borderline eases, of course, in which reasonable men might differ as to whether the circumstances witnessed by an officer gave an objective foundation to his suspicion. Certain factors might then be evaluated to determine whether they reasonably suggested the suspect's possible commission, existing or imminent, of a crime: The time; the day of the week; the location; the physical appearance of the suspect; the behavior of the suspect; the appearance and manner оf operation of any vehicle involved; any thing incongruous or unusual in the situation as interpreted in the light of the officer's knowledge.
Id. at 1247.
We conclude that the actions of Goodman and Hawkins, in light of the officer's knowledge that the premisеs had just previously been the repository for a cache of cannabis, were sufficient to justify a stop and investigatory detention.
For the foregoing reasons we affirm the conviction but vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing in conformity with the dictates of Villery, supra.
AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED FOR RESENTENCING.
ANSTEAD and HURLEY, JJ., concur.