People v. Alvarez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J.), rendered January 28, 2000, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second *218felony offender, to a term of 47a to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The arresting officer testified that while participating in a buy and bust operation in a drug prone area, he received a radio transmission from an undercover officer stating that defendant had approached a person near a street…