Dallas Adult Entertainment: EDWARDS v. STATE
The Dallas police department received a complaint that drugs were being sold out of the back of a house on Carpenter Drive in Dallas. Dallas police detective Patrick Boyett conducted an undercover buy at the house using a confidential informant. On two different days, the informant successfully purchased crack cocaine through a window in the back of the house. Boyett obtained a warrant to search the house. When he and his team arrived at the house to execute the warrant, Boyett saw appellant looking out the front window. He said appellant looked at him and “immediately fled” from the window. Detective Mario Castanon helped execute the warrant; he was the slammer.[ 1 ] Castanon testified that the door did not open when he hit it with the slammer, so he knew it was barricaded. He hit the door about six times before it opened. Boyett entered the house first and found appellant, another man named James Hood, and a woman in the bedroom. Boyett instructed another officer to place them in handcuffs and hold them in the bedroom until the house was cleared. The police determined that the woman was a prostitute, and she was not charged.
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