People v. Caufield

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Under the facts of this case, the prosecution was not required to produce at the suppression hearing the dispatcher of the radio transmission to prove that the police had probable cause to arrest defendant. Here, unlike People v Lypka (36 NY2d 210), the content of the radio transmission itself demonstrated that the sender possessed the requisite probable cause for the police to act. The information transmitted included the facts that the dispatcher received a telephone call from JoAnn Buda, who said that her house was then being shot at by a driver…