People v. Sandobar

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered November 6, 1991, 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 10 to 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was detained for investigative purposes and a transmitter seized from him when he was observed by an undercover officer using the transmitter to warn the occupants of a nearby apartment of approaching police. Defendant was arrested after police established a definite connection between…