Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Assuming for purposes of the suppression motion that the defendant's allegations were true and that the contraband was located beneath a crate on which the defendant was seated, the suppression court properly denied the motion without a hearing. The defendant failed to allege in his motion papers that he exercised any expectation of privacy in the crate that was searched (see, People v Mendoza,
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