People v. Jacobs CA2/8

FACTS

The Traffic Stop and Discovery of the Methamphetamine On March 8, 2015, Jacobs was driving his Honda in the City of Industry when he was pulled over by Ivan Diaz, a reserve deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Deputy Diaz ran the Honda’s license plate number and found Jacobs was the owner of the vehicle and that it was registered as a planned non-operation or “PNO” vehicle. Deputy Diaz asked if there was anything illegal in the car and Jacobs said he had marijuana in the car, for which he had a medical license. Deputy Diaz lawfully searched the car and found in the trunk a glass jar that contained methamphetamine in the final stage of the manufacturing process, two bags of a green-leafy substance, and a pipe with a milky substance in the bowl. Detective Scott Schulze, a senior narcotics detective with the sheriff’s department, helped recover the items found in Jacobs’s trunk. The deputies also found cans of acetone, butane fuel, and a gas additive called “Heat.”1 Deputy Diaz placed Jacobs under arrest and read him his Miranda2 rights. Jacobs waived his rights and told Deputy Diaz that the jar was not his, and that he did not know the jar was inside his…