People v. Cobb

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Jane Goodman, J.), entered March 8, 1993, which granted defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence and statements made to the police, unanimously affirmed.

While the anonymous tip of a man selling credit cards, coupled with the observation of a man exactly fitting the informant’s description and holding what could have been a credit card, gave the police reasonable suspicion to believe that defendant had possession of and was trying to sell stolen credit cards (see, People v Benjamin, 51 NY2d 267, 270-271), justifying temporary detention for…