Opinion
January 22, 1990
Appeal from the County Court, Nassau County (Boklan, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The evidence adduced at the suppression hearing was sufficient for the court to conclude that probable cause existed for the arrest of the defendant and the subsequent search of the vehicle (see, People v. Hunter, 55 N.Y.2d 930; People v. Chestnut, 51 N.Y.2d 14; People v. Ingle, 36 N.Y.2d 413). The car was being operated in an extremely erratic manner and a radio check of the license plates revealed that they did not belong to the car operated by the defendant. As such, the Troopers were justified in stopping the vehicle and, after one of the Troopers saw a vial containing a white powder residue on the front seat, probable cause existed for the defendant's arrest.
We have examined the defendant's contention raised in his supplemental pro se brief and conclude that there was no violation of the rule promulgated in People v. Rosario ( 9 N.Y.2d 286, cert denied 368 U.S. 866) and codified in CPL 240.45 (1). Mangano, J.P., Lawrence, Kooper and Harwood, JJ., concur.