The police have a reasonable suspicion that a traveler is carrying contraband and ask the traveler at the airport if__________they can search his luggage.The traveler refuses.The officers lack probable cause and tell the traveler he is free to go.However,they refuse to return the luggage to the traveler,telling him they are waiting for a drug-detection dog.The traveler waits for two hours,but the dog does not appear.Although lacking probable cause,the police still refuse to give the traveler the luggage,and he leaves.Under the Fourth Amendment,this police action is:

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The police lacked probable cause to detain the luggage or the traveler, and therefore their actions were unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. Even though they told the traveler he was free to go, they unlawfully refused to return his luggage and detained it without a valid reason. The fact that they waited for two hours and the drug-detection dog did not appear does not change the fact that they lacked probable cause to detain the luggage. The traveler leaving voluntarily does not make the police's actions lawful.

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