Summary
In People v Bond, 227 AD2d 412 (2d Dept 1996), the court found that police officers had reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle because the vehicle and its occupants clearly matched the descriptions set forth in a radio transmission regarding the suspects and the officers observed the vehicle in fairly close physical and temporal proximity to the crime.
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May 6, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We find unpersuasive the defendant's contention that the stop of the vehicle which he was operating constituted an unlawful seizure. The police officers had reasonable suspicion to stop the automobile ( see generally, CPL 140.50; People v. De Bour, 40 N.Y.2d 210) because the vehicle and its occupants closely matched the descriptions set forth in a radio transmission regarding suspects in a multiple shooting, and the officers observed the vehicle in fairly close physical and temporal proximity to the crime ( see, People v. Bianchi, 208 A.D.2d 551, affd 85 N.Y.2d 1022; People v. Mills, 198 A.D.2d 236; People v Reid, 135 A.D.2d 753; People v. Rivera, 124 A.D.2d 682). Moreover, the ensuing events clearly gave rise to probable cause for the defendant's arrest ( see generally, People v. De Bour, supra; People v. King, 184 A.D.2d 660; People v. Rivera, supra).
The defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit. Balletta, J.P., Sullivan, Santucci and Altman, JJ., concur.