Garnes v. New York State Police

Kane, J. P.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of *908the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Superintendent of State Police which terminated petitioner’s employment as a State Trooper.

Two Housing Authority police officers, in plain clothes, observed petitioner, an off-duty State Trooper, seated in the passenger side of a parked vehicle at a Long Island City housing project in Queens County with a piece of paper containing a white powder cupped in his left hand and a small straw being brought up to his nose by his right…