People v. Carey CA4/3

FACTS

In March 2017, Carey and two associates entered an illegal marijuana dispensary in Anaheim, California. Each handed his CDL to an armed security guard, who confirmed the pictures on the CDLs depicted each of the three individuals standing before him. Because Carey and his associates had never visited the dispensary before, the security guard entered their names and information into a spreadsheet about first-time customers on a laptop computer. The security guard then allowed Carey and the other two men into the dispensary. As they entered, one man drew his weapon and told the security guard to “[g]ive me your gun and don’t do anything funny.” Carey and his two associates, armed with semiautomatic handguns, then proceeded to rob the dispensary and the customers inside, taking marijuana, wallets, and other items.

2 After the robbers fled, the security guard wrote down each robber’s name from memory and provided them to the police when they arrived. Meanwhile, a woman who worked at the dispensary texted a screenshot of the spreadsheet to the security guard 1 on his cellular phone. Investigators used the names of the suspects provided by the security guard to obtain their CDL…