People v. Santiago

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Pirro, J.), rendered January 25, 1993, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that *493branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the County Court properly denied suppression of the "pouch” that the defendant had dropped in the "lobby” of the boarding…