People v. Whitehead

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Murray Mogel, J., at suppression hearing; Richard Carruthers, J., at plea and sentence), rendered March 20, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his guilty plea, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The experienced arresting officer’s observation of defendant engage in an exchange of a glassine envelope for money, in a drug-prone area, provided probable cause for defendant’s…