Herein, this court is asked to define the scope of the Attorney General’s authority to investigate criminal offenses. In Commonwealth v. Carsia, 341 Pa.Super. 232, 491 A.2d 237 (1985), argued eo die as the present appeal, we held that the Attorney General’s authority to prosecute criminal cases is limited to the specific instances set forth in Section 205(a)(1)-(8) of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, Act of October 15, 1980, P.L. 950, No. 164, § 101 et seq., 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(1)-(8).1
*407That holding was based on the court’s conclusion that the legislature intended the Commonwealth Attorneys Act to be the sole grant of authority to the Attorney General to prosecute criminal cases. In the present case, the Commonwealth, in the guise of the District Attorney of Allegheny *408County, argues that under section 2062 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, the Attorney General has the authority to investigate any criminal offense which he reasonably believes he has the authority to prosecute under section 205 of the Act. We agree.
The context in which this appeal arises is by virtue of a Commonwealth appeal from an order of the Honorable John W. O’Brien, Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, granting the suppression motion of the appellee David Goodman.3 In reviewing this order, we were bound by the standard set forth by the supreme court in Commonwealth v. Hamlin, 503 Pa. 210, 215, 469 A.2d 137, 139 (1983), namely:
[I]n reviewing a suppression court’s ruling the appellate court is bound by factual findings supported by the record. Commonwealth v. Wiggins, 472 Pa. 95, 371 A.2d 207 (1977); and, they may not substitute their own findings for those of the suppression court. Commonwealth v. Davis, 491 Pa. 363, 421 A.2d 179 (1980). This principle of deference to trial courts has one important caveat however, appellate courts are not bound by findings whol*409ly lacking in evidence. Commonwealth v. Hall, 475 Pa. 482, 380 A.2d 1238 (1977).
See also, Commonwealth v. Chandler, 505 Pa. 113, 117, 477 A.2d 851, 853 (1984). The following facts were testified to at the suppression hearing.
On April 14, 1982, Charles Park, a security representative of the Bell Telephone Company, during examination of computer records, noticed that signal irregularities were emanating from a telephone service registered to the appel-lee. The irregularities were indicative of the use of a “blue box.” A “blue box” is an electronic “tone generating” device which is used to circumvent the telephone company’s billing apparatus and thereby obtain free telephone service. Park informed his supervisors of the possible use of the device. He then connected to the appellee’s service a Dialed Number Recorder (DNR)4 and a tape recorder. The DNR and tape recorder remained connected for a period of approximately twenty-six hours (from 2:00 P.M., April 15, 1982 to 4:15 P.M., April 16, 1982). During this period, eight conversations were intercepted and recorded.
On April 16 or 17, 1982, Robert Meinert, the head of the Bell Telephone security in Pittsburgh, contacted Special Agent Dennis Danask of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), the investigative arm of the office of the Attorney General. Meinert informed Danask of the details of the investigation which Bell Telephone had conducted thus far.
Agent Danask relayed this information to Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Claus, who was in charge of criminal investigations in Western Pennsylvania. Claus told Danask that “without further information, we really couldn’t make a decision as to whether or not it would be an area in which *410the -Attorney General’s Office had jurisdiction.” (N.T. April 27, 1983 at 23).
On April 21, 1982, Agent Danask and Deputy Attorney General Claus met with Park and Meinert of Bell Telephone to discuss the incident. They were informed that on two of the calls, the appellee had identified himself as “Attorney Goodman.” Claus later testified that he felt that this fact gave rise to the possibility of investigation and prosecution by the Attorney General under the authority granted by Section 205(a)(2) of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, which authorizes the Attorney General to prosecute cases involving corrupt organizations under 18 Pa.C.S. § 911. We note further that at this time there was an informal discussion between Claus and Allegheny County Assistant District Attorney wherein it was agreed that the case should proceed through the Attorney General’s Office.
On April 26, 1982, based on the information received from Bell Telephone, Agent Danask applied for and executed a warrant to search the appellee’s office/residence. The warrant application set forth the information received from Park and Meinert and alleged violations of 18 Pa.C.S. § 910, prohibiting the manufacture, distribution or possession of devices for theft of telecommunications services, and 18 Pa.C.S. § 3926, theft of services. The application 'further stated that the objective of the search was to locate and seize “blue boxes” or components, paraphernalia or manuals concomitant thereto.
The search was executed by BCI agents. A device which was identified as a “blue box” was discovered and seized. In the course of searching for another device, the agents found a sawed-off shot gun, and they were told by appellee that several automatic weapons were on the premises. While two BCI agents secured the premises, a second warrant was obtained for the seizure of the shotgun. Subsequently, a third warrant was obtained for the seizure of several automatic weapons.
On May 12, 1982, Agent Danask filed a criminal complaint against appellee charging him with possession of a *411device for the theft of telecommunications services,5 theft of services,6 and multiple counts of prohibited offensive weapons.7 After the complaint was filed, but prior to the preliminary hearing, the Office of the Attorney General, upon review of the evidence, determined that a basis for the Attorney General’s prosecution of the case did not exist. The case was turned over to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office which assumed the prosecution.
Several pretrial motions were filed seeking the dismissal of the informations and suppression of the evidence. These motions were denied. However, on April 8, 1983, the appel-lee filed a motion to suppress evidence, which the lower court treated as an amendment to the appellee’s omnibus pretrial motion. After hearings and arguments, on April 28, 1983, the lower court granted the motion to suppress on the ground that the Attorney General’s Office lacked “jurisdiction” to investigate the incident and that suppression was appropriate. A Commonwealth motion for reconsideration was denied and a timely appeal was taken to this court. The Commonwealth raises two issues:
I. The suppression court erred in concluding that the execution of the search warrant by agents of the Attorney General was in contravention of the Attorney General’s authority to investigate.
II. The court below erred in ruling that suppression was the necessary remedy for an alleged violation of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act.
We shall discuss them ad seriatim.
I. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE.
The scope of the Attorney General’s authority to investigate a criminal offense is set forth in section 206 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act. See n. 2 supra. The clause relevant to our immediate discussion is that which reads:
*412“The Attorney General shall have the power to investigate any criminal offense which he has the power to prosecute under section 205.” The Commonwealth asserts that, at the time of the investigation and based upon the information available, the Attorney General's Office had a reasonable belief the investigation and prosecution of the appellee was within its authority under sections 206(a) and 205(a)(2) (relating to corrupt organizations) and 205(a)(7) (relating to investigative grand juries) of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act. It asserts that the power to investigate criminal offenses must necessarily be broader than the power to prosecute those offenses because
[t]he decision to initiate a prosecution under § 732-205 will arise where the [Ajttorney [Gjeneral is made aware of facts that justify his commencement of a prosecution. Normally, information first brought to the [Ajttorney [Gjeneral’s attention will be an insufficient basis upon which to render a decision to prosecute. Instead, initial facts will require further investigation to determine whether an activity arises to a crime that warrants prosecution by the [Ajttorney [Gjeneral under 205.
Appellant’s brief at 15-16.
Initially, we note that this argument is not applicable logically to those sections of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act wherein the Attorney General’s authority is invoked by request. See 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(3) (request of district attorney); 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(5) (request of president judge); 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(6) (referral by Commonwealth agency). Rather, it is an assertion that the Attorney General must have some factual basis upon which to determine whether to invoke his authority to prosecute corruption of state officials under 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(1), corrupt organizations under 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(2), or medicaid fraud under 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(8); or upon which to determine when he must petition to supersede a county district attorney under 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(4), or convene an investigative grand jury under 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(7) and 71 P.S. § 732-206(b). The argument is- essentially that the Attor*413ney General must have the authority to investigate allegations of criminal conduct which, if proven, would give rise to criminal charges which can be prosecuted by the Attorney General.
The appellee, on the other hand, argues that:
[T]he clear intent of the Act is to allow the Attorney General to investigate and subsequently prosecute only certain crimes. All other crimes are left to the numerous and qualified local law enforcement agencies. It is absurd to adopt the Commonwealth’s rationale. Under that theory the Attorney General’s Office could investigate every possible crime, and once they would determine it does not fall under their jurisdiction, then turn it over to local authorities. It is much more logical to assume that local authorities are to investigate crimes. Once the investigation showed that the Attorney General would have jurisdiction, the case is then turned over to the Attorney General’s Office. Not only is this the clear intent of the Act, but it also alleviates the legal evidentia-ry problems created by the seizure of evidence by authorities without jurisdiction. Clearly, allowing the local authorities to gather and seize the evidence eliminates the risk of suppression of the evidence due to lack of jurisdiction.
Appellee’s brief at 8.
The resolution of this issue depends upon the legislature’s intendment as to the investigative powers of the Attorney General 1 Pa.C.S. §§ 1901, 1921. Section 206 replaced that part of the section of the Administrative Code of 1929, Act of April 9, 1929, P.L. 177, art. IX, § 904, et seq., 71 P.S. § 294, which gave the Attorney General the power, and the duty to “investigate any violations, or alleged violations, of the laws of the Commonwealth which may come to its notice.” The present section is much more limited in scope, and obviously evidences a legislative intent to decrease the extent of the Attorney General’s investigative authority.
*414On the other hand, we refuse to accept a construction of section 206 which would denude the Attorney General of his investigative powers. It would be ludicrous to conclude that the Attorney General’s investigative powers, namely, the power and authority to uncover evidence of criminal conduct which could lead to criminal prosecution, is limited to only those situations wherein it is certain that the investigation will lead to prosecutions authorized by section 205 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act. If this were the legislature’s intent, the result would be a virtual paralysis of the Attorney General’s investigative powers. Because such a result would be both absurd and unreasonable, we find it unacceptable. We do not believe the legislature intended such a result. 1 Pa.C.S. § 1922(1).
However, we must also heed the legislature’s mandate that the Attorney General’s investigative authority extends only to “any criminal offense which he has the power to prosecute.” This provision must be given some meaningful effect.
This court must now decide a question of law upon which there is no authority to provide guidance. The previous statute, and the case law interpreting that statute, was much different and cannot be relied on as an accurate barometer of the legislature’s intent.8 The legislative history of section 206, as set forth in JOINT STATE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION: TASK FORCE ON THE OFFICE OF ELECTED ATTORNEY. GENERAL Final Report (September 1, 1978) (hereinafter “TASK FORCE”), does not *415address this particular question.9 Consequently, this court must attempt to establish a correct statement of law.
We believe that the legislature, when it promulgated section 206 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, intended that the Office of Attorney General be empowered to investigate any criminal offense which it reasonably believes, at the time of the investigation and with the information it then possesses, it is able to prosecute under section 205. However, we also believe that, if challenged, the Attorney General should be able to produce evidence which would establish by a preponderance of the evidence that a factual basis existed which supported that belief. In our opinion, this standard strikes a balance between the need of the Attorney General to possess the power to properly execute its statutory function and the apparent intent of the legislature to diminish the investigative authority of the Attorney General from that which was previously wide-ranging and comprehensive.
In light of the foregoing analysis, we now must address the question: Did the Attorney General’s Office, based upon the information it possessed prior to its application for the search warrant, have a reasonable belief that it could prosecute David Goodman under section 205 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act? We believe it did not.
We reject at the outset the Commonwealth’s contention that the Attorney General’s Office reasonably believed *416it could prosecute by virtue of section 205(a)(7) and 206(b), i.e., the facts known at the time of the investigation raised at least the possibility of the need for a multi-county investigative grand jury. As the testimony of Assistant Attorney General Lawrence Claus at the suppression hearing clearly indicates, after his April 21, 1982 meeting with Bell Telephone officials, no factual basis existed for the assumption that the “blue boxes” were manufactured within the state and were involved in inter-county commerce. It is also clear the search warrant was applied for and executed solely upon the belief that the Attorney General could prosecute under the corrupt organizations statute.10 Thus, the only justification for the Attorney General’s investigation rests on the grant of authority under section 205(a)(2), which in turn relies on his authority under 18 Pa.C.S. § 911.11
*417The purpose behind the corrupt organizations statute is set forth in its initial subsection (a), which provides: Findings of fact. — The General Assembly finds that:
(1) organized crime is a highly sophisticated, diversified, and widespread phenomenon which annually drains billions of dollars from the national economy by various patterns of unlawful conduct including the illegal use of force, fraud, and corruption;
(2) organized crime exists on a large scale within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, engaging in the same patterns of unlawful conduct which characterize its activities nationally;
(3) the vast amounts of money and power accumulated by organized crime are increasingly used to infiltrate and corrupt legitimate businesses operating within the Commonwealth, together with all of the techniques of violence, intimidation, and other forms of unlawful conduct through which such money and power are derived;
(4) in furtherance of such infiltration and corruption, organized crime utilizes and applies to its unlawful purposes laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania conferring and relating to the privilege of engaging in various types of business and designed to insure that such businesses are conducted in furtherance of the public interest and the general economic welfare of the Commonwealth;
(5) Such infiltration and corruption provide an outlet for illegally obtained capital, harm innocent investors, entrepreneurs, merchants and consumers, interfere with free competition, and thereby constitute a substantial *418danger to the economic and general welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and
(6) in order to successfully resist and eliminate this situation, it is necessary to provide new remedies and procedures.
Under the Act, it is “unlawful for any person who has received any income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity in which such person participated as a principal, to use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of such income, in the acquisition of any interest in ... or operation of, any enterprise.” 18 Pa.C.S. § 911(b)(1). Racketeering activity includes crimes found in Chapter 39 of the Crimes Code and covers, among other offenses, the theft of telephone service. Id. §§ 911(h)(1)(i), 3926(a)(2). Finally, enterprise includes “any individual ... engaged in commerce,” id. § 911(h)(3), while a pattern of racketeering activity “refers to a course of conduct requiring two or more acts of racketeering activity.” Id. § 911(h)(4).
The Commonwealth’s argument is that, prior to obtaining the first search warrant on April 26, 1982, the Attorney General’s Office had information which gave it reason to believe the appellee was an attorney, engaged in commerce, who had committed at least two acts of racketeering, i.e., two acts constituting the theft of telephone service. As Assistant Attorney General Claus testified:
Well, the significance, to me, involved Section 911 of the Commonwealth Attorneys-Act [sic], and one of the areas in which the [Attorney [G]eneral’s office, by specific statute, is given the authority to investigate and prosecute, or in situations where there is a pattern of racketeering activity, specifically in regard to conducting or maintaining or operating an enterprise, and the statute defines an enterprise under 911, Section H(3) as any situation or any individual engaged in commerce. And as far as I could see, on the basis of the telephone calls by Mr. Goodman identifying himself as an attorney, he was engaged in the practice of business and, therefore, fell within the scope of the corrupt organization section. The *419fact that there were more than two [telephone calls] indicated that it fits into the definition section of a pattern of activity, racketeering activity that 911 gives jurisdiction for the [Attorney [G]eneral’s office to become involved with.
N.T. April 28, 1983 at 31.
This argument misconstrues the corrupt organization statute and, in fact, contradicts the Attorney General’s eventual decision to discontinue its own prosecution of Goodman.12 Basically, the Commonwealth’s contention, at the suppression hearing and now on appeal, is that prior to applying for and executing the search warrant, the Attorney General intended to prosecute Goodman under section 911. However, nothing in the record substantiates this assertion. Indeed, the initial search warrant and accompanying affidavit listed the crimes to be investigated as violations of sections 910 (relating to manufacture, distribution of devices for theft of telecommunication services) and 3926 (relating to theft of services); no mention was made to any corrupt organizations offense. Thus, even though the Attorney General “intended” to prosecute Goodman for a first degree felony under section 911,13 he did not think it important to include such an offense in the application for the search warrant. Rather, the only offenses listed by the Attorney General were a misdemeanor of the first degree and, at most, a felony of the third degree. 18 Pa.C.S. §§ 910(b), 3926(c), 3903(a). The Commonwealth offers no explanation for its decision not to include section 911 violations in the application for the search warrant despite its “intention” to prosecute under that statute.14
*420It is also interesting to note that the Attorney General’s intention to prosecute Goodman was formed before the search warrant was executed. However, after the warrant was executed, and evidence was discovered and seized, the Attorney General decided not to prosecute. Thus, the decision not to prosecute was reached when the Attorney General had the same, if not more, information regarding the applicability of section 911 to Goodman’s activities.
If anything, the circumstances of this case appear to evidence an “intention” to prosecute Goodman for a corrupt organizations offense after it investigated him, not before he was investigated. The Commonwealth’s justification for investigating Goodman is simply not supported by the record before us. In short, it appears the Attorney General’s “intention” was formed in hindsight, not with foresight.
Even if we were to accept the Commonwealth’s argument that the Attorney General planned all along to prosecute under section 911, we do not find the investigation to have been reasonable. As the initial subsection of the statute repeatedly and explicitly states, section 911 address itself to the problem of organized crime. It is a well established rule of statutory construction that the preamble of a statute may be considered in the statute’s construction. 1 Pa.C.S. § 1924. It is not surprising, then, that our supreme court has interpreted section 911 as having the “primary purpose ..., through the use of civil remedies of the type traditionally employed against antitrust violators, to prevent the infiltration of legitimate business enterprises by organized crime.” Commonwealth v. Brady, 470 Pa. 420, 433, 368 A.2d 699, 706 (1977) (emphasis added) (footnote omitted).15 In addition, the Task Force Report on the Commonwealth Attorneys Act described section 205(a)(2) of that act as empowering the Attorney General to prosecute “[c]riminal cases which relate to organized crime” because “the grow*421ing complexity of organized crime often necessitates substantial resources, sophisticated training and central coordination not possessed by many of the district attorney’s office.” TASK FORCE, supra, at 13-14. (emphasis added).
The foregoing makes it clear that the Pennsylvania Corrupt Organizations Act was intended to grant the Attorney General the authority to prosecute individuals, among other “entities”, engaged in systematic and pervasive criminal activities, which types of activities are set forth in section 911(h). In our judgment, a reasonable reading of section 911 would not result in the conclusion that the use of a “blue box” (to avoid telephone company charges) by an individual attorney in the course of his legal practice constitutes the crime contemplated by section 911. To read this statute differently, under the facts of this case, would bring about unreasonable, if not absurd, results which we cannot sanction. 1 Pa.C.S. § 1922.
In reaching this interpretation of section 911, we have found some enlightenment from federal decisions interpreting the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Provisions, Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Pub.L. 91-452, 84 Stat. 941, codified at 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 et seq. (hereinafter RICO). Although these cases are not controlling and the Pennsylvania and federal acts are not identical, “both are directed at curbing illegal racketeering activities.” Commonwealth v. Taraschi. 327 Pa. Super. 179, 187-88 n. 2, 475 A.2d 744, 748 n. 2 (1984). In addition, section 911 was based upon the RICO statute, even to the extent of incorporating much of the federal act’s language. Commonwealth v. Brady, supra, 470 Pa. at 433 n. 17, 368 A.2d at 706 n. 17; see also, TOLL, PENNSYLVANIA CRIMES CODE ANNOTATED § 911 (1974); Comment, The Pennsylvania Attack on Racketeers in Legitimate Enterprises, 78 DICK.L.REV. 176, 176-78 (1973).
As our supreme court had done with section 911 in Brady, the United States Supreme Court has interpreted *422RICO as primarily an attack on organized crime’s infiltration of legitimate business. United States v. Turkette, 452 U.S. 576, 591, 101 S.Ct. 2524, 2532, 69 L.Ed.2d 246 (1981). That being the unmistakable purpose of RICO, the act has also been interpreted as not intended “to subject ordinary criminals to the [ajct’s heightened punishment.” United States v. Lemm, 680 F.2d 1193, 1198 (8th Cir.1982).16
We are fully cognizant of the fact that some of the federal courts which have addressed this specific issue have held there is no requirement under RICO for the prosecution to prove a nexus between the individual being prosecuted and “organized crime.” See, e.g., United States v. Aleman, 609 F.2d 298 (7th Cir.1979); United States v. Chovanec, 467 F.Supp. 41 (S.D.N.Y.1979); United States v. Vignola, 464 F.Supp. 1091 (E.D.Pa.1979); United States v. Mandel, 415 F.Supp. 997 (D.Md.1976); cf. Saine v. A.I.A., Inc., 582 F.Supp. 1299 (D.Colo.1984) (civil liability); D’Iorio v. Adonizio, 554 F.Supp. 222 (M.D.Pa.1982) (same). These blanket statements, however, are better understood in light of the Eight Circuit’s reasoning in United States v. Bledsoe, 674 F.2d 647 (8th Cir.1982). Therein the court stated:
Obviously, no statute could and this statute was not intended to require direct proof that individuals are ‘organized crime.’ United States v. Campanale, 518 F.2d 352, 363-64 (9th Cir.1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1050, 96 S.Ct. 777, 46 L.Ed.2d 638 (1976); United States v. Chovanec, 467 F.Supp. 41, 44-45 (S.D.N.Y.1979) .... [However], [e]ach element of the crime, that is, the predicate acts, the pattern of such acts, and the enterprise requirement, was designed to limit the applicability of the statute and separate individuals engaged in organized crime from ordinary criminals.
*423Id. at 663; United States v. Lemm, supra.; cf. United States v. Anderson, 626 F.2d 1358, 1367-68 (8th Cir.1980) (“we find nothing in the language, structure, or history of the Act to imply that ... Congress was attempting to enhance the punishment of offenders merely because they commit more than one of the predicate crimes”).
We believe the reasoning of the Eighth Circuit is persuasive, for it addresses itself to the very real “danger of abuse where a prosecutor attempts to apply the statute to situations for which it was not primarily intended.” United States v. Huber, 603 F.2d 387, 395-96 (2d Cir.1979); cf. Commonwealth v. Brady, supra. If the Attorney General had proceeded to prosecute in the instant case, we believe such an abuse would have occurred here. As stated above, no reasonable interpretation of section 911 would allow the Attorney General to exercise authority to prosecute crimes outside those contemplated by the primary purpose of the statute. Under the facts of this case, it was not reasonable for the Attorney General to believe he could prosecute Goodman under section 911; likewise, under section 206 of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, he could not investigate Goodman.
Finally, we add that we do not believe the Attorney General’s “contacts” with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office satisfied the requirements of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act regarding the substitution of the Attorney General in a criminal prosecution pursuant to 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(3). Indeed, the Commonwealth concedes the Attorney General never proceeded under section 205(a)(3). Appellant’s Brief at 19. As the notes of testimony of the suppression hearing indicate, all communications between the Attorney General’s Office and the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office were initiated by the Attorney General’s Office after its preliminary investigation had already begun. See N.T. April 28, 1982, at 24, 27. Hence, no “request”, formal or otherwise, was ever made by the district attorney as specifically provided for in 71 P.S. § 732-205(a)(3). More importantly, the record also *424reveals that at no time was there any representation by either law enforcement office that the district attorney “lack[ed] the resources to conduct an adequate investigation,” or that there was a “potential for an actual or apparent conflict of interest on the part of the district attorney or his office.” Id. We, therefore, reject the Commonwealth’s argument that there was any substitution under section 205, by agreement or request, which permitted the Attorney General to investigate.17
II. SUPPRESSION.
In the present case, the challenge was made by means of a motion to suppress.18 The lower court, in its opinion of November 3, 1983, first determined that the Attorney General lacked the “jurisdiction” to investigate the case; then, by analogizing the circumstances to those cases wherein municipal law enforcement agents make arrests or execute search warrants outside their territorial jurisdiction, the court ruled that suppression was the appropriate remedy, citing Commonwealth v. Fiume, 292 Pa.Super. 54, 436 A.2d 1001 (1981) and Commonwealth v. Anzalone, 269 Pa.Super. 549, 410 A.2d 838 (1979). Fiume and Anzalone dealt with the legislative grant of authority which permitted municipal police officers to arrest suspected criminal offenders outside the territorial limits of the political subdivision employing such officers. That grant of authority is found in its present form at 42 Pa.C.S. § 8951 et seq. Because this court had concluded that suppression was the appropriate remedy for the statutory violation in Fiume and Anzalone,19 the lower court in the instant case felt compelled20 to *425suppress the evidence seized by the Commonwealth as a result of the Attorney General’s violation of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act.
The analogy is indeed an apt one. However, a recent opinion by our supreme court has cast serious doubt on the propriety of applying the drastic remedy of exclusion in cases involving extraterritorial executions of search warrants. Commonwealth v. Mason, 507 Pa. 396, 490 A.2d 421, 427 (1985); see generally, Commonwealth v. Corley, 507 Pa. 540, 491 A.2d 829 (1985) (Larsen, J., concurring). Considering that our opinion in Mason was guided by the earlier extraterritorial arrest cases, Commonwealth v. Mason, 327 Pa.Super. 520, 547, 476 A.2d 389, 402 (1984), the use of suppression by the lower court here is all the more suspect.
Mason involved, inter alia, the question of “whether a search warrant may legally be executed by non-jurisdictional police or, stated another way, must the officer executing the warrant have the authority to act as an officer where the warrant is executed.” Id., 327 Pa.Superior Ct. at 544, 476 A.2d at 401 (original emphasis). This court determined that if the executing law enforcement officer did not have the authority by virtue of a legislative grant,21 then the search pursuant to the search warrant would be illegal *426unless the officer was accompanied by jurisdictional police who participated in the search. We also concluded that the mere presence of jurisdictional police at the location of the search was not sufficient to constitute the participation necessary for a legal search. On appeal, the supreme court reversed, holding that the mere presence of jurisdictional police was sufficient to make the search a legal one. Commonwealth v. Mason, 507 Pa. 396, 408, 490 A.2d 421, 427 (1985). Because there was no illegality, suppression was not available.
Despite its holding, the supreme court, in rather extensive dicta, proceeded to discuss the general applicability of the exclusionary rule. Turning its attention to the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, the court rejected the notion that any and every violation of the rules regarding the execution of search warrants required exclusion. The court also rejected the proposition that Pa.R.Crim.P. 2004, relating to individuals authorized to serve a search warrant, assumes that the law enforcement officer serving a search warrant is one authorized to do so under the relevant statute providing for statewide municipal police jurisdiction.22 Thus, the supreme court implied that a non-jurisdictional police officer could properly execute a search warrant pursuant to Rule 2004, even if it resulted in a violation of the officer’s statutory grant of authority. Exclusion would not be applicable despite the statutory violation, as the search comported with the requirements of the Rules. In other words, the supreme court appears to be of the opinion that a violation of the state-wide municipal jurisdiction statute standing alone would not necessitate suppression of evidence. This reading of Mason also suggests the impropriety of applying an exclusionary rule in the instant case, since here, suppression was applied solely because the Commonwealth Attorneys Act was violated.
*427In addressing the application of such a rule, we first consider the type of violation which occurred here. Appel-lee Goodman contends that the violation of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act by the Attorney General’s Office is of constitutional dimensions under both the United States23 and Pennsylvania24 Constitutions, which prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures. We cannot agree.
As the Commonwealth correctly points out, the Commonwealth Attorneys Act does not provide a remedy to any defendant in a criminal prosecution for a violation of the Act. In addition, the intention of the General Assembly in enacting the statute was to allocate the prosecutorial powers, and thereby the investigatory powers, of the Commonwealth between the elected Attorney General and the individual, elected district attorneys. Commonwealth v. Carsia, supra. Nothing in the statute itself or in its available legislative history indicates that the General Assembly considered the Act would in any way involve the protection of the constitutional rights of criminal defendants. Clearly, appellee Goodman’s contention that the Act somehow embodies his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures cannot find support from the statute alone.
It is also interesting to note that in the analogous cases dealing with extraterritorial arrests, the supreme court appears to consider violations of 42 Pa.C.S. § 8953, and its predecessors, to fall short of constitutional violations. See discussion of Mason, supra. If violations of the statutes in those cases denied an individual’s constitutional rights, then suppression would presumably be an appropriate remedy, irrespective of compliance with procedural rules. Indeed, although the issue has never been before the supreme court, at least two members of that court have expressed their view that a violation of the statewide municipal jurisdiction statute does not result in the denial of an individual’s constitutional rights. Commonwealth v. Novick, 500 *428Pa. 546, 547, 458 A.2d 1350, 1351 (1983) (McDermott, J. dissenting, joined by Larsen, J.) (“[Defendant’s] confession and a room full of stolen goods were suppressed, not because his constitutional rights were violated, but because he was arrested by the wrong police officer.”)25
Federal decisions also provide us with some guidance. In United States v. Harrington, 681 F.2d 612 (9th Cir.1982), the court was faced with the following factual circumstances. Officers of the United States Customs Service conducted a warrant-authorized search of the defendant’s home located in Del Mar, California. A variety of drugs, $100,000 in currency and other items were seized. The district court suppressed the evidence seized for the sole reason that “the customs officers should not have conducted the investigation that led to the search and seizure.” Id. at 613. They lacked the authority to execute the search warrant because pursuant to an Executive Reorganization Plan,26 all responsibility for in-land investigations of federal drug violations was vested in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Due to the violation of the Reorganization Plan, the federal district court suppressed the evidence, basing its decision on United States v. Soto-Soto, 598 F.2d 545 (9th Cir.1979).
On appeal, the Ninth Circuit reversed. The court first noted that “[n]othing in the Plan or its history suggests that the President or Congress favored the use of the exclusionary rule to deter noncompliance [with the Plan].” United States v. Harrington, 681 F.2d at 613-14. Furthermore, the court stated that Soto-Soto “approved the suppression of evidence seized not merely because the search violated a statute, but because the statutory violation undermined constitutional protections,” and limited Soto-Soto’s application to “the border-search context.” Id. at *429614; cf. Miller v. United States, 357 U.S. 301, 78 S.Ct. 1190, 2 L.Ed.2d 1332 (1958). Finding no violation of a constitutional right by the otherwise “perfect search”, the court held “a court should not automatically suppress the evidence seized by an officer who, for some technical reason, should not have conducted the search.” Id. 681 F.2d at 615. A violation of the Plan, which was promulgated by the President and approved and amended by Congress, and which allocated the investigatory authority of governmental agents, did not result in the type of unreasonable search and seizure contemplated by the Constitution. Standing alone, it did not warrant suppression.
The United States Supreme Court, in the companion cases of United States v. Giordano, 416 U.S. 505, 94 S.Ct. 1820, 40 L.Ed.2d 341 (1974), and United States v. Chavez, 416 U.S. 562, 94 S.Ct. 1849, 40 L.Ed.2d 380 (1974), also refused to attribute a constitutional dimension to similar statutory violations. In Giordano and Chavez, the petitioners claimed that evidence obtained as a result of federal wiretaps should have been suppressed because of violations of the federal wiretap act. 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-20. These violations resulted from the manner in which the Attorney General’s Office applied for the wiretaps. In Giordano, the specific violation occurred when the Attorney General’s Executive Assistant authorized the wiretap application. The Court stated it was clear that Congress, in an attempt to strictly limit the use of wire interceptions by law enforcement agents, authorized only the Attorney General or any Assistant Attorney General specially designated by the Attorney General to authorize a wiretap application. 18 U.S.C. § 2516(1). The Court found it “[p]lain[] enough” that the Executive Assistant was not one so authorized and, hence, the statute was violated. United States v. Giorda-no, 416 U.S. at 512-23, 94 S.Ct. at 1825-30.
As to the remedy applicable for this violation, the Court looked no further then the wiretap act itself. The act specifically provided for suppression of evidence obtained as a result of this type of statutory violation. See 18 U.S.C. *430§§ 2515, 2518. However, the Court was emphatic in stating that the issue of suppression “does not turn on the judicially fashioned exclusionary rule aimed at deterring violations of Fourth Amendment rights, but upon the provisions of” the federal wiretap act.27 As in Harrington, the violation was not of constitutional dimensions. Cf. United States v. Chavez, 416 U.S. at 570, 94 S.Ct. at 1853 (“There is no claim of any constitutional infirmity arising from this defect, nor would there be any merit to such a claim, and we must look to the statutory scheme to determine if Congress has provided that suppression is required ... ”).
Based on our reading of Mason and on the federal authority referred to above, we do not consider the violation of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act which occurred in the instant case to have violated appellee Goodman’s constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. There is no argument here that there was no probable cause to support the issuance of the search warrant, or that it was not issued by a neutral and disinterested judicial officer. The spirit and the letter of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, as well as the dictates of the Fourth Amendment, appear to have been observed. The lack of a statutory remedy and the plain intent of the Act lead us to conclude suppression is inappropriate in the instant case.28 See generally W. LaFave, SEARCH AND SEIZURE § 1.3 (1978).
The order of the suppression court is reversed, and the case remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion. Jurisdiction is not retained.
*431MONTEMURO, J. files opinion in which WIEAND, CIRILLO, DEL SOLE and JOHNSON, JJ., join.
SPAETH, President Judge, files concurring and dissenting opinion in which BROSKY, J., joins.
WICKERSHAM, J., files concurring and dissenting opinion in which POPOVICH, J., joins.