People v. Askew

—Crew III, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County (Lomanto, J.), rendered May 3,1993, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of burglary in the third degree, possession of burglar’s tools, criminal mischief in the fourth degree and petit larceny.

We reject defendant’s contention that County Court erred in refusing to suppress his statement, "[N]o, I am in here myself’, in response to the police query of whether anyone else was in the building. That inquiry was made while a police officer was securing defendant in a closed, darkened restaurant, where…