Opinion
May 5, 1997
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, his arrest was based upon probable cause. It is well settled that information provided by an identified person, accusing another identifiable individual of a crime, is sufficient to provide the police with probable cause to arrest ( see, People v. Banks, 151 A.D.2d 490; People v. Cotton, 143 A.D.2d 680). Thus, the hearing court properly denied that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress voluntary statements the defendant made to the police after he waived his Miranda rights.
The defendant's contention that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury to consider intentional murder and depraved indifference murder in the alternative, rather than in the conjunctive, is unpreserved for appellate review and we decline to review the issue in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction ( see, People v. Johnston, 166 A.D.2d 667).
O'Brien, J.P., Copertino, Thompson and Krausman, JJ., concur.