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October 30 335 First Interstate Bank, San
941 Jose
November 23 49 Security Pacific National
50 Bank, San Jose
Shortly after renting the boxes, petitioner returned to each
of the San Jose banks to add Laura Dixon as co-renter, but they
did not enter the boxes. All of the San Jose banks keep records,
which are time and date stamped, of their customers' entries to
the safe deposit boxes. Subsequent to the date that petitioner
rented the boxes, he entered only three times; petitioner entered
box 2110N at Bank of America, box 335 at First Interstate Bank,
and box 49 at Security Pacific National Bank on October 23,
November 5, and December 10, 1987, respectively.
Employees of the BoA-Sunnyvale were suspicious of
petitioner's box-renting activity and called the Sunnyvale Public
Safety Department (the police). Special Agent James R. Krehbiel
(Krehbiel) of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was
called in by the police to help investigate the case.
Krehbiel and the police determined that the Missouri
driver's license petitioner used for identification to rent the
boxes was not legitimate and that the address petitioner gave the
bank as his local address belonged to a private mailbox business.
In addition, the investigators brought two detector dogs to the
bank vault with the boxes. The dogs, which are trained to sniff
out illegal drugs, "alerted" to boxes numbered 1 and 6346E.
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