When reviewing a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we make an independent determination based on the totality of the circumstances and reverse only if the trial court’s ruling was clearly against the preponderance of the evidence. Embry v. State, 70 Ark. App. 122, 15 S.W.3d 367 (2000). The majority relies upon United States v. Beck, 140 F.3d 1129 (8th Cir. 1998). I, too, find that Beck is instructive. As explained by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals: During an investigative stop, officers may check for weapons and may take any additional steps “reasonably necessary to protect their personal safety and to maintain the status quo during the course of the stop.” United States v. Hensley, 469 U.S. 221, 235 (1985); see abo United States v. Dawdy, 46 F.3d 1427, 1430 (8th Cir.) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 872 (1995); United
holding that an officers belief that he had observed the occupants of a truck participate in a drug transaction supported a valid investigatory detention of the truck and its occupants holding warrant check not unreasonable where detention not extended solely for that purpose holding detention of passenger for warrant check violated fourth amendment absent reasonable suspicion holding that request for license destination and purpose of trip within reasonable scope of detention holding that requests for identification of all occupants explanation of presence in area and warrant check was within reasonable scope of detention