Property Clerk of New York City Police Department v. Larouche

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Edward J. Greenfield, J.), entered December 11, 1990, which denied the petitioner Property Clerk’s application for a judgment declaring the automobile seized and held by the Property Clerk forfeited pursuant to Administrative Code of the City of New York § 14-140 (b), unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a de novo hearing, without costs.

Respondent was arrested on October 12, 1989 and charged with the class D felony of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree (Penal Law § 220.06).

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