A female traveler paid for a plane ticket to Miami. When she checked in at the airport, the ticket agent took her luggage and placed it on a conveyor belt so it could be loaded onto the plane. As the luggage was traveling along the conveyor, it passed a narcotics agent whose dogs sniffs every bag in an attempt to find drugs. The dog was alerted to the woman’s bag, so the narcotics officer grabbed it and opened it. Several kilogram packages of cocaine were inside.
Before the woman could board her flight, she was arrested. Discuss this case in view of the provisions of the 4th Amendment. Has a search occurred? Was her arrest Constitutional?
