context: The Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of a vehicfcs and any containers or compartments found within it, where probable cause exists to search the vehicle. This court has held that the odor of marijuana, without more, emanating from a properly-stopped vehicle, may provide the requisite probable cause to support the warrantless search of both the vehicle and the baggage therein.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 372 F.3d 653, 659
citation_a.parenthetical: concluding that a police officer has probable cause to arrest for marijuana possession if the officer "smells the odor of marijuana in circumstances where the officer can localize its source to a person"
citation_a.sentence: See United States v. Scheetz, 293 F.3d 175, 183-84 (4th Cir.2002) (upholding as valid the search of a knapsack in a car based on officers’ detection of odor of marijuana); see also United States v. Humphries, 372 F.3d 653, 659 (4th Cir.2004) (concluding that a police officer has probable cause to arrest for marijuana possession if the officer “smells the odor of marijuana in circumstances where the officer can localize its source to a person”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 293 F.3d 175, 183-84
citation_b.parenthetical: upholding as valid the search of a knapsack in a car based on officers' detection of odor of marijuana
citation_b.sentence: See United States v. Scheetz, 293 F.3d 175, 183-84 (4th Cir.2002) (upholding as valid the search of a knapsack in a car based on officers’ detection of odor of marijuana); see also United States v. Humphries, 372 F.3d 653, 659 (4th Cir.2004) (concluding that a police officer has probable cause to arrest for marijuana possession if the officer “smells the odor of marijuana in circumstances where the officer can localize its source to a person”).