The hearing court properly determined that the police had probable cause for defendant's arrest. In the early morning hours, the police received a radioed description of a man breaking into a car. This description was sufficiently specific, in context, because the close spatial and temporal proximity between the crime and the police encounter with defendant made it "highly unlikely that the suspect had departed and that ... an innocent person of identical appearance coincidentally...
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