PEOPLE v. SINGH

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's motion to suppress several bricks of cocaine found by the police in two suitcases in an apartment from which he attempted to flee was properly denied. While the anonymous telephone call received by the police concerning the drugs and their location in the apartment, standing alone, did not carry sufficient indicia of reliability to warrant intrusive police action (see, Florida v. J.L., 529 U.S. 266; People v. Benjamin, 51 N.Y.2d 267), the unresponsive and peculiar answers that the defendant gave from behind the closed door of the apartment when the police knocked at the door, combined with his attempt to flee the apartment by going out the second floor window and jumping off the roof of a shed, constituted objective articulable facts which provided the police with reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot (see, People v. Benjamin, supra; People v. Wider, 172 A.D.2d 573; People v. Taylor, 76 A.D.2d 892). Therefore, the defendant's detention by a police officer, after the officer's observation of these articulable facts, was proper.

The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit.

FLORIO, J.P., GOLDSTEIN, McGINITY and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.