Kane, J. Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Bruhn, J.), rendered October 25, 2004, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of 10 counts of the crime of burglary in the second degree.
During the summer of 2003, a series of burglaries occurred in southern Ulster County in which the perpetrators used crowbars to enter homes during the day. Based on information received from neighbors of the burglarized homes, police began looking for a gold Honda with a moonroof driven by a white male and
Following his indictment on 10 counts of burglary in the second degree, defendant moved to suppress evidence seized from his car and home and his statements to police. When County Court denied the motion, defendant pleaded guilty to all 10 counts of the indictment. On appeal, he contests the denial of his suppression motion based on the propriety of the roadside encounter and the sentence imposed.
County Court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The Trooper was permitted to stop defendant’s vehicle and approach him as a result of a traffic violation, his failure to signal a right-hand turn (see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1163 [a], [b]; People v Tejeda, 217 AD2d 932, 933 [1995], lv denied 87 NY2d 908 [1995]). In addition to the traffic stop being justified at its inception, the limited seizure of the vehicle’s occupant “must be reasonably related in scope, including its length, to the circumstances which justified the detention in the first instance,” unless circumstances arise which furnish the police with a founded suspicion that criminal activity is afoot (People v Banks, 85 NY2d 558, 562 [1995]; see People v Hofelich, 31 AD3d 882, 885 [2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 867 [2006]). Under the reasonableness standard, the information that defendant provided during the brief roadside stop created a founded suspicion justifying further inquiry (see People v Sora, 176 AD2d 1172, 1173 [1991], lv denied 79 NY2d 864 [1992]). As the record does not indicate that a reasonable time had passed to permit a check on defendant’s license and issue a ticket in the few minutes since the car was stopped, the officers’ founded suspicion developed before the justification for the initial stop and detention was exhausted (see People v Coutant, 16 AD3d 772, 774 [2005]; People v Tejeda, supra at 933). Defendant
County Court’s imposition of concurrent prison sentences of 12V2 years plus five years of postrelease supervision was not harsh or excessive, considering that the court could have imposed consecutive 15-year sentences for each of these daytime residential burglaries.
Cardona, P.J., Peters, Carpinello and Rose, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.