Opinion
November 10, 1986
Appeal from the Monroe County Court, Celli, J.
Present — Denman, P.J., Boomer, Green, Pine and Balio, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: The suppression court correctly ruled that defendant's confession was not the product of an unlawful detention. Probable cause existed for the initial arrest (see, People v Brnja, 50 N.Y.2d 366, 372-373; People v Messam, 112 A.D.2d 449; People v Davidson, 110 A.D.2d 776) and, even assuming that such cause lessened after witnesses failed to identify defendant in a lineup and after a participant in the crime failed to implicate defendant continued interrogation of defendant on an unrelated charge was proper (see, People v Heller, 99 A.D.2d 787; People v Sano, 89 A.D.2d 666; People v Cypriano, 73 A.D.2d 902). In any event, an independent reasonable basis existed for interrogation on the unrelated charge.
We have considered defendant's remaining contentions, and we find them to lack merit.