Defendants are charged with having sold narcotics to an undercover officer on First Avenue and 112th Street. They were arrested within minutes by another officer, a detective who was the sole witness at the suppression hearing. In order to establish probable cause at a suppression hearing where an arrest is based on a radio-transmitted description, such as here, probable cause cannot be established merely through conclusory testimony to the effect that the defendant matches...
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