People v. Torres

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered June 15, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

*245Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Probable cause was established by the radio transmission that an undercover officer had just purchased narcotics from an individual who immediately handed defendant what appeared to be money, and by the fact that defendant was still in close…