Stop-and-Frisk of Man Standing Near Stolen Vehicle Gets Upheld

A Texas man convicted on firearms charges lost his bid to suppress evidence from a stop-and-frisk conducted when police officers saw him congregating with others around a vehicle that was reportedly stolen during an aggravated robbery, a divided Fifth Circuit panel ruled Monday.

The investigatory stop of Pizarro Thomas was justified by reasonable suspicion he was in a high-crime area and in “close physical proximity” to the stolen vehicle and other people in and around the car, the court said in a 2-1 split opinion by Judge Leslie H. Southwick.

This is true even though the robbery occurred ten days ...