The officer who approached the passenger side, concerned about the driver's earlier motion in that direction, asked Mr. Magbie to show his when he failed to do so, the officer reached in, conducted a pat-down of Mr. Magbie's chest area and recovered, from beneath his coat, a 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol. Its magazine loaded with twenty rounds.
Messrs. Magbie and Deckett were arrested and a search incident to the arrest produce from Mr. Magbie's person the sum of$1,502.00 and 3.4 grams of rock cocaine (2.1 grams of which constituted pure cocaine) and, from beneath the vehicle's rearseat, two ziplock bags containing 0.39 grams of marijuana. As the search was in progress, Mr. Magbie told the officers that the vehicle and the pistol were his, that Mr. Beckett was his cousin-driver-bodyguard whom he described as"simple" and "child-like," and that he had directed Mr. Beckett to place the pistol beneath his coat asthe officers approached. When the cocaine was discovered, Mr. Magbie told the officers that he was unable to smoke "crack" because it would kill him and asked why the officers were concerned about the "cruck" when there was more marijuana in the car than there was "crack."