PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a challenge to evidence collected by police against a man accused of shipping cocaine in a tractor-trailer to Rhode Island.

The lawyer for Andrew Rios sought to strike much of the evidence because police, without a warrant, attached a GPS device to the vehicle he drove and monitored nonstop a North Kingstown storage unit.

Prosecutors say police should have gotten a warrant to apply the GPS device but argued that Rios did not have standing to contest the monitor or camera.

The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/yXauJR ) that U.S. District Court Judge William Smith ruled Wednesday that although Rios proved he had standing to contest the GPS device, police still would have secured a search warrant to execute the January 2011 raid based on other factors.

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