Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The hearing court properly denied that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress his statements to the police. The defendant's statements, which were made at the police precinct, were spontaneous and not the result of interrogation or its functional equivalent. A detective merely introduced himself, an act that was not reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response (see People v Rivers,
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