Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Roman, J.), rendered January 9, 2001, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
It was reversible error for the prosecutor to elicit testimony from a detective, over the defense counsel’s objection, that the detective arrested the defendant following a lineup after asking the complainant whether she recognized anyone in the lineup. The complainant testified that she identified the defendant at a lineup. The detective’s testimony implicitly bolstered the complainant’s testimony by providing official confirmation of the complainant’s identification of the defendant (see People v Trowbridge, 305 NY 471 [1953]; People v Bacenet, 297 AD2d