United States v. Juvenal Saldana-Palatzin

MEMORANDUM

Juvenal Saldana-Palatzin, Marcos Leon-Arcos, and Gonzalo Leon-Arcos (“defendants”) appeal the district court’s order denying their joint motion to suppress evidence obtained following their arrests. We affirm.

Defendants contend that the district court erred in denying their motion to suppress because the law enforcement officers did not have probable cause to make the arrests for violation of a Forest Service closure order. We review de novo a district court’s denial of a motion to suppress. United States v. Washington, 490 F.3d 765, 769 (9th Cir.2007). Factual findings made at the suppression hearing are reviewed for clear error. United States v. Basher, 629 F.3d 1161, 1165 (9th Cir.2011). Law enforcement officers have “probable cause to effect an arrest if ‘at the moment the arrest was made ... the facts and circumstances within their knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing’ that the suspect had violated a criminal law.” Orin v. Barclay, 272 F.3d 1207, 1218 (9th Cir.2001) (brackets and alterations omitted) (quoting Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 91 , 85 S.Ct. 223 , 13 L.Ed.2d 142…