Com. v. Cameron, K.

CourtSuperior Court of Pennsylvania
DecidedJune 6, 2025
Docket786 EDA 2024
StatusUnpublished

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Opinion

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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT O.P. 65.37

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA : v. : : : KALLILE CAMERON : : Appellant : No. 786 EDA 2024

Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered February 15, 2024 In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County Criminal Division at No(s): CP-51-CR-0006104-2022

BEFORE: DUBOW, J., KUNSELMAN, J., and FORD ELLIOTT, P.J.E.*

MEMORANDUM BY FORD ELLIOTT, P.J.E.: FILED JUNE 6, 2025

Appellant, Kallile Cameron, appeals the judgment of sentence imposed

by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County after the trial court

found him guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver

and possession of marijuana.1 He challenges the denial of his motion to

suppress physical evidence, the sufficiency of the evidence sustaining his

convictions, and the discretionary aspects of his sentence. We affirm.

On June 28, 2022, Officer Bryan Otterbridge of the Philadelphia Police

Narcotics Strike Force was engaged in a narcotics surveillance operation in the

area of the 2200 block of Felton Street in Philadelphia. See N.T. Suppression

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*Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.

1 35 P.S. § 780-113(a)(30) and 35 P.S. § 780-113(a)(31), respectively. J-S08035-25

Hearing, 12/12/22, 6-8, 11-12.2 Appellant was on that block selling T-shirts

from a table stand on the west side of the street just south of a parked

Chevrolet Traverse sports utility vehicle (“SUV”). Id. at 22-23. At 4:55 p.m.,

Officer Otterbridge saw Appellant engage in a brief conversation with a

woman, after which Appellant momentarily went into the rear of the nearby

SUV, beyond Officer Otterbridge’s line of sight. Id. at 12. After Appellant

returned to the officer’s view, the officer watched him hand the woman small

objects in exchange for an undetermined amount of money. Id. The woman

then crossed nearby Woodland Avenue and departed on a westbound

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (“SEPTA”) trolley. Id. at

12-13. Given her use of the public transportation trolley, the police did not

pursue the woman. Id. at 13.

At 5:30 p.m., Officer Otterbridge watched Appellant engage in a brief

conversation with a different woman, later identified as Kimberly Barron. See

N.T. Suppression Hearing, 12/12/22, 13. Consistent with the prior observed

exchange, Officer Otterbridge watched Appellant enter the nearby SUV,

momentarily out of the officer’s view. Id. After returning to the officer’s view,

Appellant handed Barron small objects in exchange for money. Id. Officer ____________________________________________

2 As addressed infra, we are only able to conduct substantive review of Appellant’s claim challenging the denial of his suppression motion because Appellant raised his remaining claims for the first time on appeal and failed to ensure the presence of the notes of testimony for his trial and sentencing hearing in the certified record for this appeal. Accordingly, we rely exclusively on the testimony from the hearing on the suppression motion for our summary of the facts for this appeal.

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Otterbridge relayed information about Barron to his fellow officers, and one of

the officers stopped her “around the corner on 62 nd Street,” and recovered

three clear-and-black Ziploc packets and one green Ziploc packet, each

containing marijuana, from Barron.3 Id. at 13, 31. The officers issued Barron

a code violation notice and released her. Id. at 13.

At 5:39 p.m., Barron returned to the area of Officer Otterbridge’s

surveillance operation, traveling eastbound on Woodland Avenue while

Appellant was walking southbound on Felton Street. See N.T. Suppression

Hearing, 12/12/22, 13-14. Fearing that the officers would then lose Appellant,

the Narcotics Strike Force officers converged on the 2200 block of Felton

Street and detained Appellant. Id. at 14. Appellant identified himself as

“Lester Harrison” to the officers. Id. at 12.

3 Unlike the rest of the packets recovered in this case, the packets recovered

from Barron were labeled, “legal or not”:

Q. And it turns out what she had on her was a small clear-and- black [Ziploc] packet labeled, quote/unquote legal or not; is that correct?

A. That is a fair statement.

Q. And there was no packaging in this case that had those markings of, quote/unquote, legal or not; is that a fair statement?

N.T. Suppression Hearing, 12/12/22, 31.

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From Appellant’s person, the officers recovered three clear-and-black

Ziploc packets, one clear Ziploc packet, and one clear sandwich bag, all of

which contained marijuana, and eighty-three dollars in cash. See N.T.

Suppression Hearing, 12/12/22, 12. The officers transported the Chevrolet

Traverse SUV to a secure police facility where, at 10:30 p.m. that evening,

they executed a search warrant on the vehicle, identified as “Search Warrant

254141.” Id. at 14, 17. From the center console of the SUV, the police

recovered seven hundred and fifty dollars in cash. Id. at 17. From the rear

of the SUV, the officers recovered twenty clear-and-black Ziploc packets, three

clear Ziploc packets, and four clear sandwich bags, all of which contained

marijuana. Id. at 17-18. From the driver’s side of the SUV, the officers

recovered a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson firearm that was loaded with

nineteen live rounds; the gun was in “stolen status out of Delaware County.”

Id. at 18.

On October 11, 2022, Appellant filed a motion to suppress physical

evidence in which he alleged that the police “stopped, searched, and arrested

him without probable cause or reasonable suspicion” and the “arrest, search[,]

and seizure of [him] and [the] vehicle w[ere] conducted without a warrant

and in violation of petitioner’s rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth

Amendments of the Constitution of the United States and his rights under the

Pennsylvania Constitution.” Suppression Motion, 10/11/22, ¶¶ 3, 5.

On December 12, 2022, the suppression court presided over a hearing

on Appellant’s motion. The Commonwealth presented the testimony of Officer

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Otterbridge, whose testimony was consistent with the above summary of the

facts. Prior to the presentation of the live testimony, the parties stipulated to

the admission of a copy of Search Warrant 254141 that lacked signatures for

Officer Otterbridge and an issuing authority. See N.T. Suppression Hearing,

12/12/22, 5-6; Exhibit C-8, Search Warrant 254141 Copy, 6/28/22. With

respect to the absence of signatures on the stipulated copy of the search

warrant, Officer Otterbridge blamed the absence of the signatures on a clerical

error, which occurred during the scanning of documents for exchange in

discovery:

Q. Officer, this has already been moved into evidence as Commonwealth Exhibit C-8, so I just have a handful of questions, quickly.

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Was this the search warrant that you completed and submitted to be approved?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. Okay. And is there -- this copy doesn’t have a search warrant -- a signature, I apologize. Do you know why that would be?

A. We scanned the wrong copy into evidence. In other words, when we get done, this is the copy that’s sent to the District Attorney’s Office for approval of the search warrant.

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