
    Renel ST. HILAIRE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 4D99-4067.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Feb. 21, 2001.
    Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Ann Dale, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Bentley v. State, 501 So.2d 600, 602 (Fla.1987); Watson v. State, 437 So.2d 702, 705 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983) (stating that “the legislature did not intend to require a finding that an operable handgun be involved in order to sustain a conviction of robbery with a firearm”), modified on other grounds, 453 So.2d 810 (Fla.1984).

STEVENSON, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.  