Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. In this unusual "buy and bust" case in which the undercover officers seized defendant themselves and held him for the arresting officer, the People met their burden of establishing probable cause for the arrest through the testimony of the arresting officer alone. The chain of events, viewed as a whole, clearly warranted the conclusion that there was a drug transaction and that defendant was the seller (see People v Amoateng...
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