People v. Parris

OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

The principal issue on this appeal is whether, at the suppression hearing, the People sufficiently established probable cause for defendant’s warrantless arrest. The proof at the suppression hearing was as follows. The police received a report of a 911 call regarding a burglary in progress at 64-04 Wetherole Street, Queens County, from a next-door neighbor. Uniformed Officers Small and Lopez, on motor patrol, were dispatched to the scene. Lopez and Small were the only witnesses to testify at the suppression hearing. When they arrived at 64-04 Wetherole Street,…