Crone, J.
Officer Robinett arrested Garcia for class C misdemeanor driving without a license, although he also had the option of issuing a summons for this particular offense. Officer Robinett conducted a patdown search of Garcia incident to the arrest. He found a small metallic cylinder in Garcia’s left front pants pocket. Officer Robinett had seen similar containers many times, “anywhere between two to ten times a year” over the previous five years. Id. at 26. In his experience, these containers held either illegal substances or properly prescribed medication. [Footnote omitted.] He opened the container and found half a pill with specific markings on it indicating that it was hydrocodone/acetaminophen, a schedule III controlled substance. Garcia stated in English, “That’s my narcotic for pain.” Id. at 29. Officer Robinett did not find a valid prescription for the medication on Garcia’s person or in the car.
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Garcia concedes that Officer Robinett had probable cause to arrest him for driving without a valid license and that the search of his person incident to arrest was reasonable under the Indiana Constitution. Garcia challenges only the reasonableness of Officer Robinett’s search of the container itself to discover its contents. This issue has been settled under the Fourth Amendment. See United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218, 236 (1973) (upholding constitutionality of officer’s search of crumpled cigarette package found in defendant’s coat pocket during search incident to arrest for driving while his license was revoked); Klopfenstein v. State, 439 N.E.2d 1181, 1188 (Ind. Ct. App. 1982) (Fourth Amendment not violated when officer found Tylenol bottle in plastic bag on defendant’s person during search incident to arrest, saw pills in bottom of plastic bag, removed pill bottle from bag, opened it, and discovered hashish).
However, the State acknowledges that Fourth Amendment jurisprudence does not dictate the result under the Indiana Constitution.
[W]hile experience has shown that analysis under the Indiana reasonableness standard generally obtains the same result as that of the federal Fourth Amendment, it would appear that where a “blanket” exception to the warrant requirement has been created for federal purposes it is appropriate to effect a different result which is based upon the actual considerations at hand according to Indiana’s constitutional protections.
State v. Moore, 796 N.E.2d 764, 770 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003), trans. denied (2004). Accordingly, Section 11 requires us to consider the reasonableness of opening the container based on the totality of the circumstances.
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In sum, Officer Robinett had no safety concerns to justify opening the container and also had no reasonable suspicion that it held any illegal substances. We conclude that given the facts of this case, it was unreasonable under the Indiana Constitution to open the container found in Garcia’s pants pocket during a search incident to arrest. Accordingly, the pill was inadmissible. Therefore, we reverse Garcia’s conviction for class D felony possession of a schedule III controlled substance.
Mathias, J., and Bradford, J., concur.