Opinion
July 6, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (George, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The charges arose out of a so-called "buy and bust" operation which occurred on April 4, 1988, when two undercover police officers entered a building on Crooke Avenue in Brooklyn and purchased crack cocaine. After the officers returned to their car and made a radio transmission to their field team, members of the team entered the building and approached the subject apartment. The officers then proceeded to ram the apartment door and enter the premises with a search warrant, wherein they found the defendant standing in the kitchen with a gun in his hand. The police also found three more guns, drug paraphernalia, marihuana, cocaine having an aggregate weight of over six ounces, and numerous sums of money including $20 of the prerecorded money used by the officers in the "buy and bust" operation. A 14-year-old boy was also in the apartment. The court's charge on reasonable doubt, constructive possession, and accessorial liability gave the jury the appropriate standards with which to evaluate this evidence (see, People v. Daddona, 81 N.Y.2d 990).
We find that the defendant's sentence was not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Mangano, P.J., Rosenblatt, O'Brien and Copertino, JJ., concur.