Order reversed, on the law and the facts, and motion denied.
The defendant having been validly arrested in the building lobby, as Criminal Term found, the seizure of gambling records which he had attempted to secrete in a folder on the front seat of his double parked vehicle, to which he went for identification, was proper. The actions of the police officers here, in effect, impounded the vehicle (cf. People v Molloy,
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