In United States v. Lopez-Arias, four officers, waiving their firearms, stopped a car occupied by two suspected drug dealers. The Court relied on which of the following events in determining that the officers had gone beyond the permissible limits of a Terry stop and acted in a manner consistent with the execution of a probable cause arrest?

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The Court determined that the officers had exceeded the bounds of a Terry stop and conducted a de facto arrest based on the totality of their actions, including removing the occupants from the vehicle, handcuffing them, separating them into different vehicles, and transporting them to another location for questioning.

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