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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. HOWARD STEINBERG, Appellant.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The hearing court's determination that physical evidence was seized from the defendant incidental to his lawful arrest is supported by the record ( see, People v. Prochilo, 41 N.Y.2d 759; People v. Johnson, 66 N.Y.2d 398; People v. Thompson, 132 A.D.2d 719). The evidence adduced at the hearing established that the police observed the defendant riding a child's bicycle to several residential dwellings. At the dwellings, he tampered with locked doors, attempted to push open windows, rifled through mail boxes, and either dropped the mail on the floor or returned it to the mail box. At one building, the defendant shoved open the main door, and "jiggled" the doors to two apartments inside. These observations, either standing alone or coupled with the defendant's implausible explanation that he was dropping off cards in the building, provided the officers with probable cause to arrest the defendant.

Copertino, J. P., Sullivan, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.

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PEOPLE v. STEINBERG
(Nov 30, 1998)