KELLY, Judge:
In this appeal we are called upon to determine whether a police officer may formally arrest an individual whom the police officer has viewed committing a summary offense. The legality of the arrest is relevant to the derivative question of whether a search incident to the arrest was permitted under the circumstances. We find both the arrest and the search to have been lawful and affirm.
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