People v. Allen

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered April 6, 1998, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress a pistol recovered from his backpack was properly denied. Initially, we conclude that the police had reasonable suspicion justifying a stop and frisk of defendant. Upon receipt of a radio communication that two described men, one of whom had a gun, were selling drugs at a specified…