People v. Bowles

Appeal by the defendant from

a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dufficy, J.), *563rendered March 16, 1988, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was arrested pursuant to a so-called “buy and bust” operation. An undercover officer had purchased two vials of crack cocaine from the defendant in return for $20 of prerecorded money. The defendant matched the description given by the undercover officer and was apprehended by the field team approximately two…