Defendant's admissibility challenge to a police officer's brief testimony that he responded to a radio report that a laptop was stolen at a particular address is unpersuasive. The testimony was plainly admissible for the nonhearsay purpose of providing background information to explain the actions of the police officer (see People v Tosca,
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