Opinion
July 6, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (John A.K. Bradley, J., Bernard H. Jackson, J.).
The evidence adduced at the suppression hearing that defendant, minutes after selling drugs from his apartment, refused the officers' request to enter, following which the officers heard a commotion in the apartment that they could reasonably believe was an attempt to destroy evidence or escape, was sufficient to establish exigent circumstances justifying the warrantless entry into the apartment to effect defendant's arrest (see, People v Chambers, 71 A.D.2d 559, amended 71 A.D.2d 987, affd 52 N.Y.2d 923).
Concur — Rosenberger, J.P., Ellerin, Kupferman, Asch and Rubin, JJ.