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FACTS

In the late afternoon of March 1, 2009, Officer Timo Peltonen and Officer Cesar Flores of the Los Angeles Police Department were in a marked black and white patrol vehicle facing westbound on Fillmore Street. Officer Peltonen was at the wheel. From a couple hundred feet away, he noticed a black Dodge Charger (the Charger) heading northbound on Glenoaks Boulevard. The Charger did not have a front license plate. It was occupied by male Hispanics. Officer Peltonen followed the Charger but did not engage the patrol vehicle‟s lights. He observed that the Charger‟s left front and left rear tire went over the double yellow lines and into the opposing lanes of traffic on two occasions within a couple of blocks. Each time, it took a second or two for the Charger to cross back over the lines. He initiated a traffic stop. The Charger pulled over to the right-hand curb. Officer Peltonen approached the driver, Mr. Luna, and Officer Flores approached Aguirre, who was sitting in the front passenger seat. Mr. Luna said that he had owned the Charger for a year and simply did not have the “plates.” Officer Flores observed the butt of a revolver sticking out of the right pocket of Aguirre‟s…