In People v. More (97 NY2d 209, 764 NE2d 967, 738 NYS2d 667 [2002]), the police entered a residence and found the defendant sitting near drugs and drug paraphernalia. They took him into a room in the apartment, had him remove his clothing and made him bend at the waist to check whether he had drugs hidden between his buttocks. When the police saw a plastic bag protruding from the defendant's rectum, they forcibly removed it. The Court recognized that a search of this nature was "at least as intrusive as [the] blood test procedures" in Schmerber (id. at 213). As a result, the actions of the police were constitutionally permissible only if the People could satisfy the clear indication and exigent circumstance requirements of Schmerber. The Court determined that the record before us was "devoid of any evidence from which an officer 'might reasonably have believed that he was confronted with an emergency, in which the delay necessary to obtain a warrant' posed a threat to the officer's personal safety or of the destruction of the evidence" (id. at 214, quoting Schmerber, 384 US at 770). Because there were no exigent circumstances supporting the warrantless intrusion into the suspect's body, we held that the removal of the object from the defendant's rectum without prior judicial authorization violated the Fourth Amendment (see More, 97 NY2d at 214).