People v. Otero

—Judgment, Supreme *159Court, Bronx County (Richard Price, J.), rendered August 28, 1996, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to 5 years probation, unanimously affirmed.

The record supports the court’s finding that the stop of the livery cab in which defendant was a passenger was justified by the officer’s reasonable interpretation of the cab driver’s driving without lights, at night, in a high crime area, as a distress signal and request for police assistance (see, People v Damaceno, 214 AD2d 464, lv denied 86…