The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of a contemporaneous uncharged drug transaction. This evidence completed the narrative and was inextricably interwoven with the drug possession charges, and it was highly probative of the contested issues of defendant's knowledge that drugs were in the car in which he was seated and his intent to sell them (see People v Alvino,
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