People v. Safoschnik

—Appeal by *449the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Browne, J.), dated May 9, 1996, which granted those branches of the defendant’s motion which were to suppress physical evidence and statements made by him to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, the motion is denied, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for further proceedings on the indictment.

The police observed the' defendant driving a van on a public street. The lock on the door on the driver’s side of the van was damaged. A computer…