People v. Coffey

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tioga County (Sgueglia, J.), rendered March 29, 2011, convicting defendant following a nonjury trial of the crime of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree.

On January 14, 2010, a State Police investigator was investigating a suspected methamphetamine laboratory located on State Route 17C in the Town of Tioga, Tioga County. While at *1048the scene of the suspected laboratory, he received a phone call from a confidential informant (hereinafter Cl) advising that defendant and another person, with whom the Cl had just…