People v. Benjamin

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Katz, J.), rendered August 10, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree and unauthorized use of a vehicle in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Finnegan, J.), of those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress physical evidence and statements made by him to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A police officer who was on patrol as part…