An officer may detain a driver only as long as it takes to deal with the reason for the stop.
On this argument Judge Bolton's analysis evoked visions of a Homeland Security or customs agent placing "on hold" a call from a Sky Marshall seeking information about the immigration status of a passenger on a jet bound for the United States while she responded to a request for information from an officer detaining a driver of pick-up truck filled with garden tools on a street in Arizona.
Just today, the Central Command announced that Army troops in an area northeast of Baqubah, in north-central Iraq, had detained a taxi driver and captured a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 12 grenade-launcher rounds, one AK-47 automatic rifle and a submachine gun.
David A. Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor, said Frye's stop crossed the line when he detained the driver while summoning a canine.
Kuwait has detained the driver of the vehicle that took a suicide bomber to a Shia Muslim mosque where he detonated explosives, killing 27 people, state news agency Kuna said on Sunday.
A vehicle matching the witness' description was detained and the driver, an adult white male, was in possession of a brown purse, but he told the deputy it belonged to his girlfriend.
Officers spotted a car fitting the vehicle's description and detained the driver on traffic charges.
The police in Bryansk later detained the driver and said they were investigating.
The deputies detained the driver on suspicion of smuggling and alerted immigration officials.
At a news conference in Kabul, the authorities put on display the two Britons as well two Afghans who were detained — their driver and their interpreter.
Police have detained the driver and translator who were working with Horner, but said they had no clues yet about the attack, beyond the type of weapon used.
