People v. Quezada

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Edward Davidowitz, J.), rendered May 23, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. In this unusual “buy and bust” case in which the undercover officers seized defendant themselves and held him for the arresting officer, the People met their burden of establishing probable cause for the arrest through the testimony of the arresting…