People v. Wilson

— Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kellam, J.), dated August 26, 1987, which granted the defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts, and the defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence is denied.

On November 21, 1986, at approximately 8:45 p.m., Housing Police Officer Daniel Horan, who was stationed with two other officers on a rooftop, observed the defendant — in a drug prone location — engage in what he suspected was the sale of narcotics. Horan thereupon descended to the street and observed a…