Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. The experienced narcotics officer's observation of defendant exchanging for money a small unknown object that he removed from a pack on his waist, coupled with defendant's immediate flight through a hole into an abandoned building when the officer shouted "police," provided probable cause for defendant's arrest (see, People v Jones,
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