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finding that "information conveyed to the police officer concerning attempts by defendant to cash a stolen check at a local department store was sufficiently trustworthy to establish probable cause for officer to arrest defendant"
Summary of this case from Stokes v. City of New YorkOpinion
November 10, 1986
Appeal from the Monroe County Court, Mark, J.
Present — Doerr, J.P., Green, Balio, Lawton and Schnepp, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: The evidence adduced at the suppression hearing clearly establishes that the information conveyed to the police officer concerning attempts by defendant to cash a stolen check at a local department store was sufficiently trustworthy to establish probable cause for the officer to arrest defendant (CPL 140.10 [b]; People v Brnja, 50 N.Y.2d 366, 373). Thus, the court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress contraband found on his person as the product of an unlawful arrest.
We have examined defendant's other arguments and find them to be without merit.