People v. Mackensy

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered June 20, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and conspiracy in the second degree and sentencing him to concu.‘rent terms of 15 years to life and SVs to 25 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Initially, we find the testimony of police witnesses to have been credible. Surveillance and wiretap evidence placed defendant at the center of a sizeable drug operation, some of whose members…