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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Sergeant Lorenzo Carrillo of the Santa Ana Police Department testified that on December 22, 2009, around 11:30 a.m. he conducted surveillance from an unmarked vehicle of a residence on West St. Andrews. Officers received information that Christopher McDonald, a parolee with prior felony drug convictions, lived at the residence and may have violated parole. Carrillo saw a woman, later identified as Melissa Hayes, standing by the front door, adjacent to the attached garage. Two men, later identified as Hugo Magana and Juvenal Marquez, emerged from the garage, entered a white van parked in the driveway, and drove off. Someone inside the garage rolled down the door. Carrillo briefly followed the van, then radioed for other officers to stop the vehicle. Officers Gustavo Moroyoqui and Justo Capacete, in a marked police unit, attempted to stop the van driven by Marquez, but the van sped off. During a brief pursuit the van’s occupants discarded blue plastic Ziploc baggies, a clear plastic sandwich baggie, and several small clear plastic baggies through the front passenger side of the van. The van pulled over and officers found a glass drug pipe, $888, and…