When conducting an inventory search, an officer does not need a search warrant or probable cause when they are properly conducted. A good example for this specific case would be Illinois v. Lafeyette because the ruling of the court was they found it necessary to search the car after the individual was taken into custody and jailed. So, in this case because the driver was booked, we can say that the officer was able to in fact search the car as an inventory search. Since Officer Curtis did not search the car right after the booking, or had someone book him while he search, it could be a false claim of the money and gun as now it is kind of unknown. The court of law would have allowed him to do an inventory search without any other probably cause or search warrant as long as it was done in the standard police procedure