Appellant's suppression motion was properly denied. The suitably experienced officer's observation of appellant exchanging small plastic envelopes for money with six customers who had formed a line in a drug-prone area, placing the money in his right pocket and something in his shoe, and then fleeing upon the officer's approach, provided ample probable cause for appellant's arrest (see, People v Valdes,
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