People v. Sierra

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Quinones, J.), rendered December 17, 1992, 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.

On October 28, 1991, the defendant was arrested in an undercover "buy and bust” narcotics operation. An undercover officer purchased two vials of crack cocaine from the defendant, paying him $10 in pre-recorded money. The defendant was arrested by a…