People v. Hernandez

—Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered July 1, 1977, which, after a hearing, granted defendant’s motion to suppress statements made by him. Order reversed, on the law and the facts, and motion denied. Alerted by a radio alarm that a burglary was in progress at a specified location, several police officers dressed in civilian clothes, members of an anticrime unit, responded and, upon arriving at the scene, observed a tarpaulin or black skylight in the process of being opened on the roof of a building. The person observed sought to flee, but was…