Ableman

In the course of booking a defendant who has been properly arrested, search of his person is entirely proper (People v. Wohlleben, 261 Cal.App.2d 461, 462 [ 67 Cal.Rptr. 826 ].) Thus the sole question here is whether there was reasonable cause to arrest defendant.

Enroute to answer a burglary alarm at the Tivoli Hotel, Officer Wells heard a radio report by Officer Irwin that the latter had stopped a vehicle on a hit-run charge. Irwin had first seen the vehicle in front of the Tivoli Hotel and the hit-run offense had occurred at that place. The vehicle stopped by Irwin was occupied by members of a motorcycle group. When Wells arrived at the hotel, he found that a member of a rival motorcycle group had been shot. The victim and his friends told Wells that the shooting had been done by “the Misfits,” some of whom had fled in an automobile. Wells *550 drove to the nearby point where Officer Irwin had stopped the hit-run vehicle. There he saw the six occupants of that car all wearing insignia identifying them as “Misfits.” Defendant was among them. All were arrested.

Wells knew from Officer Irwin’s radio message that the hit-run car had started from near the Tivoli, had…