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Posted at 05:50 AM ET, 09/16/2010

Minn. case covers searches, pants

A warning to those concealing guns in sagging pants in the state of Minnesota:

The Minnesota Court of Appeals apparently could not resist referring to the Internet hit rap song when it ruled Tuesday that a police officer did not make a "search" when she pulled up the baggy pants of a man being investigated in a suspected drug deal in St. Paul. As she was hauling up his sagging pants, the officer found a gun.

Read the full story on the twincities.com web site.

By Washington Post Editors  |  05:50 AM ET, 09/16/2010

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