helped to do so when taken in combination with the likely destruction of evidence by third persons on the premises. The Court concludes, however, that the sweep cannot be justified on the ground that the officers feared for their own safety. Neither Gerry nor any of his known associates was thought to be armed or to have threatened or engaged in violence in the past. Testimony at the suppression hearing did indicate that the level of violence associated with drug offenses in Maine is on the rise. But evidence of these kinds of general trends, in the absence of more particularized evidence about the individuals in question, is not a sufficiently exigent circumstance to overcome the individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights. See United States v. Hatcher, 680 F.2d 438, 443-44 (6th Cir.1982) (<HOLDING>) Nevertheless, the sweep was justified for the
holding that officers protective sweep through basement subsequent to arrest on drug charges could not be justified on the sole ground that the subject of drugs is a dangerous one especially for those who are on the law enforcement side holding that protective sweep was justified incident to arrest outside residence where officers had reasonable suspicion that dangerous individuals were in apartment holding that the officers were justified in conducting a protective sweep incident to the defendants arrest on outstanding warrants because the officers had information that the defendant was suspected of running a methamphetamine operation on the premises other people were living there and assisting the defendant and at the time the sweep began the defendant had not yet been located holding that officers were not justified in conducting a protective sweep of the suspects garage and backyard incident to his arrest for possession of marijuana in the back yard because the government pointed to no specific articulable facts suggesting that someone else was on the premises who posed a danger to the officers holding that buie allowed officers to perform a protective sweep of a bathroom that adjoined the place of arrest