The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence and his statement to police. Probable cause for defendant's arrest resulted from the totality of the circumstances, most notably the fact that the police found defendant hiding under garbage in a dumpster, in very close spatial and temporal proximity to a reported crime from which the suspects had fled (see generally People v Shulman,
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