Can a police officer conduct a warrantless search of the person and the area into which the arrestee might reach to retrieve a weapon or destroy evidence?

"[A] police officer may, incident to a lawful arrest, conduct a contemporaneous warrantless search of the arrestee's person and of the area into which the arrestee might reach to retrieve a weapon or destroy evidence.... Containers found within that area may also be searched contemporaneously with the arrest." United States v. Burnette, 698 F.2d 1038, 1049 (9th Cir.) (citations omitted), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 936, 103 S.Ct. 2106, 77 L.Ed.2d 312 (1983). Here, we find that the agents had probable cause to arrest Dorn. Thus, under

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