People v. Garcia

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered May 29, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7 to 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

The evidence that the area where the defendant was arrested was drug prone and that a Tactical Narcotics Team was deployed there because of community complaints was properly admitted as useful background explaining police presence…