The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion after the arresting officer testified that he believed additional drugs, which had never been recovered, had been secreted in a mailbox in the building where drugs were sold to the undercover officer. The reference was brief, there was no bad faith on the part of the prosecutor (People v Ortiz,
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