Opinion
November 16, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, Queens County (DePhillips, J.).
Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The appellant's constitutional challenge to his stop and arrest is unpreserved for appellate review. In any event, the police had probable cause to arrest him shortly after the drug transaction in question. The arrest was based on the observations and experience of a Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit police officer, who observed the appellant hand over a vial to another person in exchange for currency in an area known for drug sales, and the arrest of the buyer, who was in possession of a vial of what appeared to be crack cocaine ( see, People v. Pegram, 233 A.D.2d 468; People v. Brown, 193 A.D.2d 612; People v. Jones, 186 A.D.2d 681).
The appellant's remaining contentions are unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, are without merit.
Rosenblatt, J. P., Miller, Thompson and Joy, JJ., concur.