People v. Castro

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant argues on this appeal that the police acted unreasonably in conducting a pat-down search based on a tip supplied by an informant during a face-to-face encounter with police that defendant had a gun and said that he intended to "rip off a 'queen’ ”.

Resolution of this question turns primarily on an assessment of the credibility of the officer who testified before the suppression court. Thus, in view of the undisturbed finding that the police possessed reasonable suspicion to frisk defendant, his…