The second incident on which the Government relies occurred almost three years later, on July 17, 1997. A confidential informant who was staying at the Motel contacted the police and informed on his/her heroin suppliers, who could be contacted by way of a beeper with a code for a room number. The suppliers were not residing at the Motel. The police conducted an investigation, including surveillance, and arrested an unidentified alleged customer in the parking lot of the Motel, who was transported away from the Property in a cruiser. The outcome of this arrest is unknown. The next day the police rented room 248 and ordered drugs from the suppliers. The suppliers, Benito Castro-Eusebio and Cedano Celines, were arrested after they delivered drugs and had left the Property.

can you imagine the precedent this would set? If you want to grab a property, just call up a drug dealer, have them deliver to the property, and make your arrest. Do this a few times and you have a “pattern of drug crime” at the property.

You just can’t run a business that serves the public unless you have tremendous resources these days.