Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contentions, the police acted properly when, possessing reasonable suspicion that the defendant had committed a robbery, they briefly detained him for 5 to 7 minutes while awaiting the arrival of a police officer who subsequently confirmed that the defendant was the person whom he had seen earlier that evening fleeing from the scene of the crime (see, People v Hicks,
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