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PEOPLE v. SATTAN

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.
Jan 18, 1994

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The information supplied to the police officers in a face-to-face meeting with an unidentified informant at the crime scene, together with the officers' subsequent observations, provided the police with a reasonable suspicion that the defendant had committed a crime involving a weapon (see, People v. Thorne, 184 A.D.2d 797; People v. DeJesus, 169 A.D.2d 521; People v. Castro, 115 A.D.2d 433, affd 68 N.Y.2d 850; People v Bero, 139 A.D.2d 581, 582). The reasonable suspicion justified not only the stop of the defendant but the frisk. "Since the lawful frisk produced a gun providing probable cause for the defendant's arrest" (People v. Thorne, supra, at 798), the court properly denied suppression. Mangano, P.J., O'Brien, Pizzuto and Santucci, JJ., concur.