The court properly permitted the People to introduce uncharged crimes evidence on the issue of identity because of the unique modus operandi common to the charged and uncharged crimes, featuring close geographic links as well as the perpetrator's pattern of requesting that the taxi drivervictims stop to permit him to buy marijuana, which defendant invariably referred to as "weed" (see, People v Beam,
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