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               sometimes involves the seizure of cash being illegally                                   
               transported across the international border.  In Reese's                                 
               experience, narcotics and currency couriers, who frequently                              
               use Bellingham airport, travel lightly.                                                  
                     Reese, dressed in full Border Patrol uniform to include                            
               a visible sidearm, approached petitioner and Goncalo at the                              
               entrance of the airport.  Petitioner and Goncalo were each                               
               carrying one small carry-on bag.  Reese asked the two men                                
               where they were from and for identification.  Petitioner                                 
               unzipped his carry-on bag to obtain his driver's license.                                
               Petitioner and Goncalo each handed his driver's license to                               
               Reese, who examined the licenses.  After asking where                                    
               petitioner and Goncalo were from and looking at their                                    
               driver's licenses, Reese no longer suspected that petitioner                             
               and Goncalo were not U.S. citizens.  Reese did not return                                
               the driver's license to petitioner at that time.                                         
                     After looking at petitioner's and Goncalo's driver's                               
               licenses, Reese asked to see their airplane tickets.                                     
               Petitioner's and Goncalo's tickets were in the names of                                  
               R. Johnson and J. Johnson.  Petitioner claimed that the                                  
               tickets were not in his and Goncalo's names because he had                               
               purchased them from a man in a bar who offered him a "good                               
               buy".  Although Reese knew that traveling under fictitious                               
               names is a common practice, he did not believe petitioner's                              





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