—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Visitation-Lewis, J., at suppression hearing; Charles Solomon, J., at plea and sentence), rendered September 13, 2000, convicting defendant of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Probable cause for defendant’s arrest was established by the principal informant’s statements, which were clearly based on his personal observations. The requirement of reliability was satisfied because these statements contained significant declarations against penal interest (see, People v Johnson,