People v. Gamble

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was burglarizing a food market when he observed police officers responding to a burglar alarm. He fled on foot. Minutes later, a third officer observed defendant, who matched the detailed description broadcast by police radio, crouched down behind a patio partition at an apartment complex. That officer apprehended defendant and immediately conducted a patdown frisk. The officer felt a hard object in defendant’s back pocket and, upon ascertaining that the object was a roll of coins, put the object back in defendant’s pocket. He then…