People v. Perkov

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree for selling one-half gram of cocaine to a police informant on two separate occasions. The informant agreed to wear a body wire and to purchase cocaine from defendant, who lived in the upper apartment in the same building as the informant. On each occasion, the informant was searched prior to the transaction and was given money by the police, who then observed the informant enter the building and also monitored the informant’s conversation with…