People v. Johnson

*750Under the fellow officer rule, if an arresting officer lacks personal knowledge sufficient to establish probable cause, the arrest will be lawful if the officer acts as a result of communication with a fellow officer, provided that the police as a whole were in possession of information sufficient to constitute probable cause to make an arrest (see People v Ramirez-Portoreal, 88 NY2d 99, 113 [1996]; People v Berrouet, 84 AD3d 1392 [2011], lv denied 17 NY3d 813 [2011]; People v Grier, 47 AD3d 729 [2008]). Here, the Supreme Court properly applied the fellow officer rule and concluded that the…