Opinion
March 31, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Sheldon Rand, J.).
The court properly denied appellant's suppression motion. Appellant's detention as a suspected runaway was authorized under Family Court Act § 718, and the officer's patdown search of her knapsack, as incident to her lawful arrest, was proper ( Matter of Jamel J., 246 A.D.2d 388; Matter of Mark Anthony G., 169 A.D.2d 89, 93). Moreover, appellant's consent to a search of the knapsack was voluntary under all the circumstances and was not the product of any unlawful police conduct ( see, Matter of Gissette Angela P., 172 A.D.2d 117, affd 80 N.Y.2d 863).
Concur — Ellerin, J. P., Wallach, Tom and Mazzarelli, JJ.