People v. Silva

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (O’Dwyer, J.), rendered February 10, 1989 convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On April 7, 1988, the defendant was stopped for customs clearance at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The customs inspector who questioned the defendant…