Opinion
February 3, 1997.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Lefkowitz, J.), rendered August 25, 1994, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Before: Rosenblatt, J.P., Ritter, Friedmann and Florio, JJ.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant was properly convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. There was ample evidence establishing — and no evidence to the contrary — that the defendant's gun was in his girlfriend's car just prior to the arrival of police and that he then secreted it in his house immediately after the police arrived. Accordingly, there is no proper basis upon which to apply the clause of Penal Law § 265.02 (4) which provides that possession of a loaded firearm in one's home shall not constitute a violation of the statute ( see, People v Maniscalco, 198 AD2d 378). We have considered the defendant's remaining contention and find it to be without merit.