JURY FINDS CITY MAN GUILTY OF DRUG POSSESSION.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer

A 23-year-old city man, pointed out to police by a sharp-eyed neighbor who watched him selling crack cocaine, has been convicted on drug possession charges following a jury trial.

A Rensselaer County jury deliberated nine hours before finding Brian Smith of 10th Street guilty on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fifth degree and misdemeanor charges of false impersonation and resisting arrest, according to the office of Rensselaer County District Attorney Kenneth Bruno.

According to testimony at the trial, Smith was in possession of nearly two grams of crack cocaine, which was …