—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.), rendered February 15, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.
The trial court properly concluded that the race-neutral reasons offered by the prosecutor for the peremptory challenges in question were nonpretextual, in that they were based on bona fide concerns as to demeanor and occupation (People v Wint, 237 AD2d 195, 197, lv denied 89 NY2d 1103). The court’s findings in this regard are entitled to great deference (People v Hernandez, 75 NY2d 350, affd 500 US 352).
Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Probable cause to arrest defendant was established by testimony as to the complainant’s on-the-scene statements to the arresting officer that moments earlier, as he stood in a crowded subway car, a hand reached from behind him and removed money from his coat pocket and that defendant was the only person on the train that was in a position to have committed the act, as well