People v. Torres

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Breslin, J.), rendered March 19, 1993, upon a verdict convicting defendant of two counts of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.

In the afternoon of November 2, 1990 Rocco Ferrara, an informant working with the Town of Colonie Police Department in Albany County, made a telephone call to defendant’s stepfather, Hector (also known as Ramon) Pino, to arrange for the purchase of one gram of cocaine. The telephone conversation was monitored and recorded by Investigator Daniel Dimmer. The cocaine buy…