consistent with innocent conduct and showed “no indicia of criminal activity.” We find, however, that, taken together as a whole, Alston’s actions after he drove by the patrol car were sufficiently suspicious to provide Hixson with the requisite reasonable and articulable suspicion to stop Alston from walking away from the scene. See Terry, 392 U.S. at 22-23, 88 S.Ct. at 1880-81 (concluding that defendant’s “series of acts, each of them perhaps innocent in itself,” in combination warranted further investigation by the police). Hixson’s brief detention of Alston was therefore reasonable to allow the officer to confirm or dispel his suspicion and to maintain the status quo during the course of the lawful roadside investigatory stop. See Hatcher, 14 Va.App. at 491-92, 419 S.E.2d at 259 (<HOLDING>); see also United States v. Mancillas, 183 F.3d
holding that a police officers brief detention of a passenger who walked away from a lawfully stopped vehicle is warranted to promote the officers significant interest in gaining control of and monitoring a potentially hazardous roadside stop in order to conduct his lawful investigation particularly when events subsequent to the lawful traffic stop focus suspicion on the passenger holding that fourth amendment rights of a passenger of a legally stopped vehicle were not violated by police officers instruction that he remain inside the vehicle during traffic stop after passenger repeatedly tried to exit holding police officers making a traffic stop could order passengers out of the stopped car holding that an officer may order a passenger out of a vehicle during a stop for a traffic infraction holding that police officer was not justified in detaining a passenger who exited and began to walk away from a lawfully stopped vehicle absent an articulated reason as to why it was necessary to detain the passenger for the officers safety