Opinion
No. 5704948/10.
2012-02-22
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Kemario CHRISTIAN, Defendant–Appellant.
Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, Bronx County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), rendered June 19, 2009, convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of petit larceny, and imposing sentence.
Present HUNTER, JR., J.P., SHULMAN, TORRES, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Judgment of conviction (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), rendered June 19, 2009, affirmed.
We find unavailing defendant's present challenge to the facial sufficiency of the underlying misdemeanor complaint. The factual portion of the complaint alleged, inter alia, that defendant removed a security tag or “alarm” from a pair of sneakers, “conceal[ed]” the sneakers, headed for a store exit and “walked past the cashier's area” without paying for the merchandise. Such allegations were sufficient, for pleading purposes, to establish reasonable cause to believe that defendant was guilty of petit larceny (see People v. Olivo, 52 N.Y.2d 309 [1981] ).