People v. Arps

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J., at hearing; Gerald Sheindlin, J., at plea; William Mogulescu, J., at sentence), rendered January 27, 2000, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of six years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The police officer’s observation of a bulge in defendant’s waistband, as well as what appeared to be the protruding handle of a gun, provided reasonable suspicion to stop defendant (People v Prochilo,…