Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The claim that the prosecutor made unfair comments during summation was not raised at the trial and is therefore unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05; People v Medina, 53 N.Y.2d 951). In any event, the comments made by the prosecutor during summation were a fair response to comments made by the attorneys for the defendant and the codefendant during their summations (see, People v Torres, 121 A.D.2d 663; People v Gavins, 118 A.D.2d 582, lv denied 67 N.Y.2d 1052). The defense attorneys argued in their respective summations that the police, the only prosecution witnesses, were lying to hide the fact that their "buy and bust" operation netted the wrong men. They argued that the defendant and the codefendant were telling the truth. Since the defense characterized the only defense witnesses — the defendant and the codefendant — as the only witnesses worthy of belief, the prosecutor's summation was a direct fair response to the defense summations (see, People v Arce, 42 N.Y.2d 179).
The defendant's remaining contention, that the sentence was excessive, has been considered and has been found to be without merit (see, People v Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Mollen, P.J., Thompson, Lawrence and Eiber, JJ., concur.