People v. Norwood

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dufficy, J.), rendered May 1, 1991, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was arrested a few minutes after a buy-and-bust operation in which an undercover police officer purchased, using prerecorded money, two vials of crack cocaine from the defendant. However, no drugs or prerecorded money were recovered. The defendant was convicted of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the…