Ruggiero v. Brown

Determination of the respondent Police Commissioner dated December 21, 1990, which dismissed petitioner from his position as a police officer, is unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Martin Evans, J.], entered June 25, 1991) is dismissed, without costs and without disbursements.

Upon a review of the evidence, we find that there is substantial evidence to support the determination that petitioner was guilty of wrongfully possessing and ingesting cocaine. In…