Opinion
May 4, 1987
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schneier, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
A review of the evidence demonstrates that the information from named citizens transmitted to the police officers, coupled with the defendant's reply and actions in response to the officers' questions, gave the officers reasonable suspicion to stop and to frisk the defendant (see, People v. De Bour, 40 N.Y.2d 210, 225; People v. Tidwell, 122 A.D.2d 289). As the stop and frisk of the defendant was proper, the inadvertent discovery by the officers of the bag containing white powder, which was in plain view, and its subsequent seizure by the officers, was proper (see, People v. Spinelli, 35 N.Y.2d 77, 80-81). Mollen, P.J., Mangano, Brown and Lawrence, JJ., concur.