However, even if the affidavit was not sufficient to establish probable cause, we find that the evidence obtained from the search incident to Techau's arrest was still admissible because the officers executing the warrant were objectively reasonable in relying on it. Therefore, we determine that the facts set forth in the affidavit provided the magistrate with a substantial basis for determining that probable cause existed to arrest Techau. "The theory connecting reliability and corroboration is that an informant who is correct about some things more likely will be correct about critical unverified facts * * *." United States v. Thus, although the agents had not obtained corroboration of details regarding Techau in particular, they had corroborated Sage's statements involving himself in drug trafficking. and in the ensuing conversation Sage named several people, including Roger Techau, as being involved with Sage in the distribution of heroin in the March 9 conversation, Sage also discussed his heroin contacts in Nepal on MaHeppe again went to Sage's house wearing a body recorder, at which time Sage discussed his past heroin transactions involving several people, including Roger Techau and on another task force officer, Sergeant Harry Beltzer, had a conversation with an individual named James David Gores in Red Wing, Minnesota, in which Gores stated that Sage and Sage's wife were involved in drug trafficking between Nepal and the United States.Īlso, Sage's statements regarding his involvement with others in drug trafficking are corroborated on the face of the affidavit by Heppe's statements that he had previously had several heroin transactions with Sage, and James Gores' statements that Sage was involved in heroin trafficking between the United States and Nepal. Special Agent James Farrell Whalen and stated that in January 1985 Karl Harper Heppe was arrested in California and was interviewed concerning his involvement with heroin trafficking in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Heppe identified his principal source of heroin as Thomas Sage, from whom Heppe had purchased heroin from May 1983 through August 1984 on MaHeppe went to Sage's residence wearing a body recorder provided by the F.B.I./D.E.A. The affidavit on which the arrest warrant was based was provided by F.B.I. § 2 and Einfeldt-four counts of knowingly and intentionally using a communication facility to facilitate the attempt to possess heroin with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 2 Le and Mims-one count of knowingly and intentionally using a communication facility to facilitate a conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 2 Techau-one count of possession of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(b) (1) (A) Techau, Doolin and Mims-one count of possession of heroin with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. The defendants were found guilty on the following counts: Techau, Le, Mims and Doolin-one count of conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. Five defendants appeal their convictions of various offenses stemming from charges related to a heroin trafficking ring in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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