arrest was proper); Michigan v. Thomas, 458 U.S. 259, 261, 102 S.Ct. 3079, 73 L.Ed.2d 750 (1982) (“It is thus clear that the justification to conduct such a warrantless search does not vanish once the car has been immobilized.”); Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42, 52, 90 S.Ct. 1975, 26 L.Ed.2d 419 (1970) (concluding officers , 740-41 (1973) (finding officers’ decision to scrape carbon residue from tailpipe of defendant’s vehicle at impoundment lot without a warrant was permissible where officers had probable cause to believe defendant was involved in double murder case and similar carbon residue was found at the crime scene). Moreover, the case law in our state appears to support the admissibility of the evidence. Cf. State v. Lemacks, 275 S.C. 181, 183-84, 268 S.E.2d 285, 286 (1980) (<HOLDING>). As a consequence, even if a procedural defect
holding that where a qualified drug dog alerts to the presence of contraband in a vehicle officers have probable cause to search the vehicle holding police officers were justified in impounding and conducting inventory search which extended to the trunk of the vehicle where vehicle was abandoned and believed to contain stolen goods holding that after making an arrest of the driver of a vehicle the police may search the passenger compartment of the vehicle holding automobile exeeption did not apply to warrantless search of vehicle where vehicle was not readily mobile because the vehicle was legally parked in parking lot occupants of vehicle were seated on a bench in the playground near the parking lot police officers surrounded the vehicle and the driver of the vehicle was handcuffed for safety purposes holding that even though an inventory search was invalid the vehicle was properly impounded