The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. The description of the seller's appearance, and his precise location, transmitted by the observing officer to the arresting officer, who had just arrested the buyer in a drug transaction that had occurred minutes before, provided probable cause for defendant's arrest (see e.g. People v Ortiz,
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