Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lamont, J.), rendered May 7, 2004 in Albany County, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of burglary in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree.
Defendant was charged in a two-count indictment with burglary in the second degree arising out of an incident at the Seeber residence and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree based on defendant’s possession of property stolen from the Capobianco residence. Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of both counts of the indictment and was sentenced as a second felony offender to a prison term of nine years with five years of postrelease supervision on the burglary count and a concurrent term of one year on the criminal possession of stolen property count. On appeal, defendant makes four arguments.
First, defendant asserts that the denial of his severance motion was error since the counts of the indictment were not properly joinable. We disagree. Two offenses are joinable, even if they are based on separate criminal transactions, when “either proof of the first offense would be material and admissible as evidence in chief upon a trial of the second, or proof of the second would be material and admissible as evidence in chief
Next, we reject defendant’s second and third arguments that the evidence was legally insufficient or that the verdict was not supported by the weight of the evidence. In addition to the testimony of Seeber regarding her observations of defendant, defendant admitted to the police that he was at the Seeber residence and did, in fact, break the window in the door. Coupled with the evidence regarding defendant’s possession of the stolen Capobianco property, when viewed in the light most favorable to the People, the jury could rationally conclude that defendant had entered the enclosed porch of the Seeber residence with the intention of committing a crime therein (see People v Wright, 13 AD3d 736, 738 [2004], lv denied 4 NY3d 837 [2005]; People v Luck, 294 AD2d 618, 618-619 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 699 [2002]). Likewise, defendant’s actual possession of the stolen property, when viewed in light of defendant’s claim to the police that he purchased the property earlier in the day and intended to trade it for marihuana, could rationally lead the jury to conclude that defendant knowingly possessed stolen property with intent to benefit from it (see People v Logan, 19 AD3d 939, 942 [2005], lv denied 5 NY3d 830 [2005]). Thus, we conclude that the trial evidence was legally sufficient to support defendant’s conviction on both counts of the indictment.
Defendant’s alternative contention requires this Court to “ ‘weigh the relative probative force of conflicting testimony and the relative strength of conflicting inferences that may be drawn from the testimony’ ” (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987], quoting People ex rel. MacCracken v Miller, 291 NY
Finally, we find no merit to defendant’s contention that, in reaching its verdict, the jury considered evidence beyond that admitted at trial. Although, in a note, the jury informed Supreme Court that it discovered information not discussed by the witnesses or the attorneys, it is evident that such information was garnered from the exhibits received in evidence and given to the jury for use during deliberations. Simply stated, defendant’s contention in this regard is clearly unsupported by any record evidence. Moreover, we conclude that Supreme Court’s answer to the jury’s inquiry concerning use of this discovered evidence was appropriate and a proper exercise of discretion (see People v Brown, 2 AD3d 1216, 1218 [2003], lvs denied 3 NY3d 637 [2004]).
Cardona, P.J., Crew III, Spain and Lahtinen, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.