FBI agents, executing a search warrant at the south suburban Dolton home of a suspected drug dealer, were not required to read him his rights before asking if any weapons were in the residence, a federal judge has held.
In a written opinion Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert M. Dow Jr. declined to suppress the statements Arturo Terrell made to the agents before they administered a Miranda warning.
In one of those statements, Terrell allegedly directed the agents to a semi-automatic pistol in the master bedroom.
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