Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Impersonating police officers and using police paraphernalia, the defendant and two accomplices kidnapped two victims at gunpoint, robbing one of them of property from both his person and his apartment. The defendant was arrested a few weeks after the crime when one of the victims immediately contacted the police after seeing the defendant and one of the accomplices in a car on the street. The defendant claims that his arrest was improper because the police lacked probable cause and that the subsequent warrantless search of his car and the seizure of the police paraphernalia was unlawful.
The police arrested the defendant lawfully (see, People v Crowder, 198 A.D.2d 369) and, under the circumstances, had a reasonable basis to search the car in which he was arrested (see, People v Langen, 60 N.Y.2d 170, cert denied 465 U.S. 1028; People v Belton, 55 N.Y.2d 49; People v Blasich, 73 N.Y.2d 673, 681).
The defendant contends that the court erred in imposing consecutive sentences. We disagree. The imposition of consecutive sentences was proper since the kidnappings of the two complainants were two separate acts arising from the same set of circumstances (see, People v Brathwaite, 63 N.Y.2d 839; People v Mondello, 191 A.D.2d 462, 464).
The defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit. Rosenblatt, J.P., Lawrence, Joy and Krausman, JJ., concur.