Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The information provided to the arresting officers by civilian informants regarding a nearby robbery, when combined with the defendant's temporal and spacial proximity to the robbery and the defendant's flight at the sight of the approaching officers, gave the officers reasonable suspicion to justify their pursuit of the defendant ( see, People v Spearman, 226 AD2d 180; People v Miles, 210 AD2d 353; People v Price, 194 AD2d 634). The recovery of a handgun which the defendant threw under a car during the pursuit provided probable cause for the defendant's arrest ( see, People v Leung, 68 NY2d 734). Detention for the purposes of identification of the defendant by the robbery victim, which occurred within a few minutes of the arrest, was also justified ( see, People v Hicks, 68 NY2d 234).
The sentence imposed was not excessive ( see, People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).