while Deputy Sizemore had his driver’s license, appellant would have violated Code § 46.2-104, which prohibits a vehicle operator from driving without a license. See Brown, 17 Va.App. at 697, 440 S.E.2d at 621 (under circumstances where police observed the defendant operating a motor vehicle, when an officer asked the defendant for his operator’s license, the defendant “was no longer free to leave”). For these reasons, we hold that the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion to suppress. Accordingly, we reverse and dismiss appellant’s conviction. Reversed and dismissed. 1 . Police officers do not violate the Fourth Amendment by approaching an individual in a public place and asking questions. Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 497, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1323-24, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983)(<HOLDING>); Richards v. Commonwealth, 8 Va.App. 612, 615,
holding that the fourth amendment was not implicated when an officer asked for passengers identification to see if he could drive a vehicle because the driver had a suspended license holding that the defendant was not seized when two officers approached the defendant on a public street and asked him questions holding that the defendant had been subjected to an illegal arrest when after detectives requested and did not return his airline ticket and drivers license he was asked to come with the officers from the concourse into an interrogation room approximately 40 feet away where his suitcases were searched holding fourth amendment not implicated when police officers approached defendant who was standing outside of an airport terminal and asked to see his airline ticket and identification holding fourth amendment not implicated when police officers asked defendant to see his airline ticket asked for identification and requested consent to search him