People v. Castro

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Max Sayah, J.), rendered March 9, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate *334prison term of 6 to 12 years, reversed, on the law, defendant’s motion to suppress the buy money recovered at the time of his arrest granted, and the matter is remanded for further proceedings.

The evidence at the suppression hearing established that, during a buy and bust operation on the afternoon of June 3, 1992, Detective Anthony Lauro was…