People v. Rios

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Caesar D. Cirigli*376ano, J.), rendered April 27, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to two concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. A highly experienced narcotics detective observed what he believed to be a drug transaction when he saw defendant, in a drug prone area, accept what appeared to…