Cops to public: Stop calling alleged drug dealer’s phone, we need to search it

This is the phone in question. (credit: City of Alliance Police Department)

A small town in Ohio is pleading with its residents to halt calls to an alleged drug dealer’s seized phone—the volume of calls are disrupting investigators’ ability to search the phone.

According to a Tuesday evening Facebook post by the City of Alliance Police Department, local authorities are now in possession of Steve Notman’s phone after he was arrested “for ALLEGEDLY (on video) selling crystal meth here in Alliance.”

While we at Ars often report on questionable police searches, there is no Fourth Amendment violation here, as the cops have the suspect's permission.

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