People v. Rodgers

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Flaherty, J.), rendered July 27, 1992, 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.

On January 29, 1992, the defendant Shawn Rodgers was arrested by a uniformed narcotics police officer after the defendant had sold five vials of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer engaged in a street-level "buy-and-bust” operation.

The trial court properly deemed the arresting officer an expert in street-level…