In State v. Bridges (Oct. 5, 1989), Cuyahoga App. No. 55954, 1989 Ohio App, the Eighth District Court of Appeals upheld the detention of a non-resident who was leaving a known drug house when police arrived to execute a search warrant. The defendant argued that his detention outside the premises and his subsequent arrest were illegal, that the consent form he later executed for the search of his own residence was, therefore, invalid, and that the evidence against him should have been suppressed. In finding that his initial detention was lawful, the court noted that "police surveillance and information from their informant had identified the defendant as a suspect in the house's drug activities prior to the execution of the search warrant." Bridges, supra, 1989 Ohio App. The court also noted that "controlled purchases at the house had confirmed the fact that illegal drug transactions occurred at the house." Id. Accordingly, the court determined that the police had a "reasonable basis to detain the defendant during the search upon observing his departure from the front door of the house." Id.