BELL v. STATE, 740 So.2d 1259 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 1999)

MARTEZ BELL, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

No. 97-2498.District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Opinion filed September 22, 1999.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; James I. Cohn, Judge; L.T. Case No. 90-16626 CF 10 90-25108 CF 10.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Ellen Griffin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm Bell’s consecutive burglary sentences. The consecutive sentences for burglaries of two neighboring houses within several minutes of each other do not violate the prohibition against consecutive habitual offender sentences for crimes arising out of the same criminal episode as set forth inHale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla. 1993).See Arroyo v. State, 704 So.2d 655 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997) (affirming consecutive habitual offender sentences for two sales of cocaine rocks to two different police officers within fifteen minutes); Sprow v. State, 639 So.2d 992
(Fla. 3d DCA 1994) (consecutive habitual offender sentences upheld for burglaries of two separate apartments in same building occupied by different occupants).

WARNER, C.J., STONE and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.

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