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with customers and refute any challenges to bets. Also in the
basement, Mr. Zaban kept a toolbox with a combination lock that was
used to store his share of cash proceeds from bookmaking and
gambling activities, as well as cash he skimmed from the Parlay
Cafe. During the execution of a search warrant in March 1990, the
Baltimore County Police Department found $47,250 in cash and 17 $50
gold pieces in the toolbox. The toolbox was later moved and hidden
in an upstairs crawl space at the home of Mrs. Zaban's parents, the
DeFranks. Upon the execution of a search warrant at the DeFranks'
home in March 1992, the police discovered various papers
associating Mr. Zaban with gambling and bookmaking activities,
$62,700 in Bethlehem Steel bearer bonds, 590 $100 bills, and 20 $50
bills. Although the toolbox was somewhat obscured while in
petitioners' basement, the tape recorders were in plain sight on
Mr. Zaban's desk.
From petitioners' basement, Mr. Zaban made and received
telephone calls to and from Mr. Neumyer and others involved in the
gambling and bookmaking activities. Mrs. Zaban occasionally
answered the telephone in their home and at times spoke with Mr.
Neumyer. Sometime in 1991, the Baltimore County Police Department
obtained an order from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to
place a dialed number recorder (DNR) on the two phone lines at
petitioners' residence in Lutherville, Maryland, for the purpose of
recording the number of incoming and outgoing activations on those
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