Opinion
December 10, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Sara Schechter, J.).
Appellant's suppression motion was properly denied. The suitably experienced officer's observation of appellant exchanging small plastic envelopes for money with six customers who had formed a line in a drug-prone area, placing the money in his right pocket and something in his shoe, and then fleeing upon the officer's approach, provided ample probable cause for appellant's arrest ( see, People v. Valdes, 244 A.D.2d 268, lv denied 92 N.Y.2d 862). We see no reason to disturb the court's credibility determinations.
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Wallach, Williams and Mazzarelli, JJ.