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trash pull en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US) A covert investigation by the police of a person's refuse when it has been placed outside the curtilage of their home.
    • His track record as a snitch was good enough to get a search warrant from a judge, after some time was spent convincing him that I, as a government agent, didn't solicit the trash-pull. 2011, Bob Hartman, Inside DEA: Operation Snowcap, page 34:
    • However, a single trash pull is rarely sufficient to justify a legally valid search warrant. 2012, Christine Hess Orthmann, Kären M. Hess, Criminal Investigation, page 113:
    • The independent evidence of Garmon's knowledge and ability to control it included the suspicious activity noted by Detective Baker in his surveillance and trash pull, the presence of the scale and plastic baggies in plain view in a bedroom, […] 2001, West's Southern Reporter, page 47:

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