People v. Santiago

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Stackhouse, J.), rendered May 12, 1995, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Viewing the evidence at this joint suppression hearing/nonjury trial as a whole, including the arresting officer’s testimony as to defendant’s description, we find that probable cause was established (People v Martinez, 245 AD2d 185, lv denied 91 NY2d…