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The district attorney's office has dropped marijuana possession charges against Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes, saying that the Oct. 23 traffic stop wouldn't have held up in court. Mr. Holmes' attorney, Robert Del Greco, filed a motion last week saying the stop of Mr. Holmes' Range Rover near Mellon Arena violated the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as an illegal search. Pittsburgh police Lt. Kevin Kraus received an anonymous tip that a late-model SUV with out-of-state license plates was carrying a large amount of drugs through the Hill District. He passed the tip along to supervisors at the Zone 2 police station. Two officers then pulled over Mr. Holmes, who has Florida license plates. They spotted three marijuana-filled cigars, or blunts, in the car, and Mr. Holmes told the officers that he had smoked marijuana in the car the previous day.