area took over the pursuit.
Detective Roger Ballard was among one of the units that picked up the surveillance of the blue vehicle. He followed the vehicle to the elevated portion of the Westbank Expressway and stopped the vehicle near Stumpf Boulevard. Detective Ballard ordered the driver, Waldon Shief, to exit the car and inquired whether there were illegal drugs or weapons in the vehicle. Shief indicated he had a "roach," or partially burned marijuana cigarette, in the ashtray. Detective Ballard retrieved the "roach" and discovered a bag of loose marijuana between the driver's seat and the center console. Thereafter, Shief was arrested. A search of the vehicle revealed forty individual packets of heroin hidden in the dashboard and a two-way radio on the front passenger seat. Shief indicatedhe picked up the heroin from a handicapped person at 3712 Delaney Street, and was delivering it to a female in New Orleans.
Detective Ballard informed Agent Castagnetta of the heroin discovery and alerted him to the two-way radio found in the car. Based on this information, Agent Castagnetta decided to secure the residence at 3712 Delaney Street to prevent the destruction of evidence before a search *702 warrant could be obtained. Agent Castagnetta and several other police officers made a forced entry into the residence and secured the occupants.
Detective Ballard found defendant lying unclothed on a bed in an upstairs bedroom with Keith Tobias standing nearby. After securing defendant and Tobias, Detective Ballard observed that the bedroom window was opened and the screen was pushed out. When he