—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered February 6, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
Even if we were to assume that the testimony challenged by defendant suggested the existence of contemporaneous uncharged drug sales (cf, People v Granado, 222 AD2d 286, Iv denied 88 NY2d 848), the testimony would have been admissible to complete the narrative and as relevant to the People’s explanation regarding the absence of the pre-recorded buy money from the currency found in defendant’s possession (see, People v Pressley, 216 AD2d 202, Iv denied 86 NY2d 800). Any possible prejudice was effectively eliminated by the court’s limiting instructions, which were presumably understood and followed by the jury (see, People v Davis, 58 NY2d 1102, 1104).
Defendant’s argument that the arresting officer’s testimony