People v. Ortiz

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J., at hearing; Rena Uviller, J., at plea and sentence), rendered June 30, 1999, convicting defendant of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of IV2 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The observing officer’s transmission established probable cause for defendant’s arrest. The description of a Hispanic man wearing a black plastic jacket, a red shirt and blue pants was sufficiently specific,…