People v. Grzebyk

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), rendered October 20, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The evidence that a “Street Narcotic Enforcement Unit” was deployed to the area where the defendant was arrested because there had been community complaints, was properly admitted as useful background information explaining the police presence…