People v. Perez

—Judgment, Supreme *259Court, Bronx County (Joseph Cerbone, J.), rendered February 3, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 7½ to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that the trial court improperly admitted evidence of an uncharged crime is without merit. The police witness testified that immediately prior to the charged sale, defendant removed something from a plastic bag in a garbage pail, placed the item in his pocket, and subsequently gave…