Opinion
July 15, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Koch, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We agree with the Supreme Court's determination, made after the hearing, that the arresting detective had probable cause to arrest the defendant based on the information provided to him by the shooting victim. It is well settled that information provided by an identified citizen accusing another individual of the commission of a specific crime is sufficient to provide the police with probable cause to arrest. Here, the shooting victim advised the detective that he had been shot by a person named Keno who was approximately six feet, three inches tall, had a close-shaved head with "dreds", was light skinned, and worked at the Empire Skating Rink. This quantum of information was sufficient to establish probable cause (see, Minott v. City of New York, 203 A.D.2d 265).
In any event, under the circumstances presented herein, the line-up identifications of the defendant were properly admitted in evidence since the line-up identification procedure was sufficiently attenuated from the defendant's arrest to remove any taint (see, People v. Watson, 200 A.D.2d 643). Bracken, J.P., Ritter, Joy and Goldstein, JJ., concur.