PERSON ALLEGED TO BE JUVENILE DELINQUENT v. << (2026)

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (David J. Kaplan, J.), entered on or about April 30, 2025, which adjudicated appellant a juvenile delinquent upon his admission that he committed acts that, if committed by an adult, would constitute the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and placed him on level 2 probation for a period of 12 months, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly denied appellant's motion to suppress the firearm.  Based on officer observations that appellant was tightly holding a small, black, L-shaped object in his waistband that appeared to be a firearm, the police were entitled to conduct a common-law inquiry (see People v. Corona, 142 AD3d 889, 889 [1st Dept 2016], lv denied 28 NY3d 1144 [2017] ).  When the police approached appellant and he immediately ran, displaying the gun as he fled, the officers possessed reasonable suspicion to pursue him and to stop and frisk him (see People v. Marte, 242 AD3d 589, 589 [1st Dept 2025], lv denied 45 NY3d 937 [2026];  People v. White, 117 AD3d 425, 425 [1st Dept 2014], lv denied 23 NY3d 1044 [2014] ).  Accordingly, the police were entitled to recover the firearm after appellant abandoned it by throwing it to the ground (see White, 117 AD3d at 425).