Ward

MEMORANDUM *

The district court properly denied defendant Gregory Ward’s suppression motion. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers responded to a call from an apartment complex manager, a person with whom they had previously worked and knew to be reliable. The apartment manager had personally observed suspicious transactions occurring in the apartment courtyard on a daily basis and was well situated to determine that a group of men gathered in the courtyard were not residents of the complex. On this occasion, the manager had alerted the police that a group of nonresidents were again hanging out in the courtyard, and described the group as young black males with corn rows wearing heavy jackets and dark clothes. Shortly thereafter, responding to the call, police found men meeting the manager’s description in the location she had specified. 1 Upon seeing the police, the men began to walk away from the courtyard, behavior the police had witnessed in the past at this location. See Illinois v. Wardlow, 528 U.S. 119, 124 , 120 S.Ct. 673 , 145 L.Ed.2d 570 (2000)(high-crime location not sufficient for reasonable suspicion by itself, but police are “not required to ignore the relevant…