—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Thomas, J.), rendered May 29, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Chetta, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Within minutes after an undercover detective observed the defendant hand an unapprehended drug purchaser a waxpaper packet in exchange for money, the defendant was arrested and found in possession of six waxpaper packets containing heroin and $246 in currency. The defendant claims that the trial court improperly admitted into evidence the $246 recovered from him. We find the defendant’s argument to be meritless. In cases involving possession of illegal drugs with the intent to sell, "[ejvidence of money found on the defendant’s person at the time of his arrest [is] probative of [his] intent” and therefore this evidence was properly admitted (People v Rivera, 177 AD2d 662, 663; see also, People v Hernandez, 71 NY2d 233, 245-247; People v Martin, 163 AD2d 491).
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see, People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).
The defendant’s remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05 [2]), or without merit. Bracken, J. P., Miller, Lawrence and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.