The court properly delivered a consciousness-of-guilt charge, since defendant's abandonment, at the approach of the police, of a paper bag later discovered to contain heroin, as well as his struggle with the police before being handcuffed, provided a sufficient evidentiary predicate for such a charge (see People v Yazum,
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