People v. Asencia

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Grajales, J.), rendered December 22, 1994, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal-possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During a so-called “buy and bust” operation in Brooklyn on July 6, 1994, the defendant sold a glassine envelope containing heroin to Carmen Vasquez, who then sold it to an undercover police officer for $15. Upon his arrest, the defendant had on his…