People v. Santiago

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vinik, J.), rendered November 27, 1985, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress physical evidence and a statement made to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On June 15, 1985, at about 12:13 p.m., the defendant was a passenger in a car traveling along Pitkin Avenue…