Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
The trial court properly declined to give a missing witness charge. The whereabouts of the witness was unknown. The prosecutor and the police tried, without success, to locate the witness and serve him with a material witness warrant. Hence, the witness was not available to, or under the control of, the People (see, People v McCullers,
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