People v. Jones

*114OPINION OF THE COURT

Order entered February 6, 1990, dismissing the misdemeanor information upon an undated order granting defendant’s motion to suppress evidence, reversed, on the law and the facts, the motion to suppress is denied, and the information is reinstated.

Defendant was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (Penal Law § 220.03). At the Mapp hearing, the arresting officer testified that as defendant walked past the doorway of the building where the officer was stationed and observed the officer, defendant dropped an article to the ground,…