DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The factual findings and credibility determinations of a hearing court are entitled to great deference on appeal, and will not be disturbed unless clearly unsupported by the record (see People v. Prochilo, 41 N.Y.2d 759, 761; People v. Jakins, 277 A.D.2d 328; People v. Fryar, 276 A.D.2d 641). The hearing minutes support the denial of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence (see People v. Crespo, 292 A.D.2d 177, lv denied 98 N.Y.2d 709; People v. Sergeant, 281 A.D.2d 438; People v. Licurgo, 277 A.D.2d 396).
The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant's motion to sever the marijuana possession count from the remaining arson-related counts of the indictment. The proof in support of the arson-related counts would have been material and admissible as evidence-in-chief upon a trial of the drug charge, as the proof related to the reasons for the defendant's arrest (see CPL 200.20[b]; People v. Bongarzone, 69 N.Y.2d 892, 895; People v. Nolan, 277 A.D.2d 400). Moreover, the defendant made various statements at the time of his arrest on the drug charge which would have been material and admissible as evidence-in-chief upon a trial of the arson-related counts (see People v. Nolan, supra; People v. Quartieri, 171 A.D.2d 889).
SANTUCCI, J.P., O'BRIEN, GOLDSTEIN and COZIER, JJ., concur.