Dismissal of the claims alleging false arrest, false imprisonment, assault and battery was proper since defendants established that the warrantless arrest was based upon probable cause to believe that plaintiff committed the subject burglary. Plaintiff's DNA was discovered on a crowbar left at the crime scene, and the victim stated that she neither knew plaintiff nor authorized him to enter her apartment (see e.g. People v Ainsley,
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