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Gowanda man, son face drug charges linked to triple stabbing

January 31, 2014, 6:48 pm
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A 55-year-old Gowanda man and his 19-year-old son were sent to the Cattaraugus County Jail in Little Valley following their arrest Thursday night in Gowanda on multiple felony counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in a follow-up to the Jan. 24 stabbings of three people in Gowanda.

Gowanda Police arrested Joseph R. Gugino Jr. and his son, Indigo J. Vantino at the suspects’ home on West Main Street in Gowanda.

Andrew D. Estrada, 18, of Gowanda, was arrested Jan. 24 for the three stabbings, which police said was linked to a drug deal gone bad.

Gugino and Vantino have not been charged in connection with the stabbings.

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North Carolina man rejects plea offer in Falls homicide

January 31, 2014, 6:51 pm
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LOCKPORT – Richard H. Moore, the North Carolina man accused of shooting a friend of his girlfriend to death in Niagara Falls earlier this year, rejected a plea offer Friday.

Assistant Public Defender A. Joseph Catalano said Moore, who is under indictment for second-degree murder, had been offered a chance to plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter.

“He’s balking at it at the moment, but things change,” said Catalano. Another court date was set for Feb. 14 to give Moore time to contact his family to discuss the situation.

Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann confirmed the plea offer.

No sentencing commitment was included with the offer, Catalano said. The maximum sentence for first-degree manslaughter is 25 years in prison, while a murder conviction would mean that Moore could be sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years before he’s eligible for parole.

The plea offer was disclosed as Moore made a brief appearance before Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III, who had been warned earlier in the week that the Public Defender’s Office might have a conflict of interest that would force it to drop Moore as a client.

Assistant Public Defender Michael E. Benedict had told Murphy that attorney Rodney Giove might be rejoining the public defender staff, and Giove had once represented a witness in the murder case in a civil court proceeding.

However, Catalano said Friday that the conflict wouldn’t crop up before Moore’ scheduled trial date April 7, if ever.

Moore, 50, of Winston-Salem, N.C., is charged with the Sept. 28 shooting death of Tijuana Davis, 39, in the victim’s residence on North Avenue in the Falls.

Davis was the cousin of Moore’s girlfriend, Cammesoa M. Williams, 42, a Lockport native now living in Winston-Salem She is charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly firing a shot at Davis but missing after Moore had already shot her.

Moore and Williams were in town to attend the wedding of Williams’ cousin. Davis, a friend of Williams, was expected to let Moore and Williams stay with her before an argument broke out that ended in gunfire.

Monday, Williams’ attorney, Herbert L. Greenman, said he was in the midst of negotiating a plea bargain for her.

Williams is free on $5,000 bail and was allowed to make a brief visit back to North Carolina this week. Moore is being held in the Niagara County Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.



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Woman robber his First Niagara branch on Elmwood

January 31, 2014, 7:02 pm
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Buffalo police are looking for a woman who robbed the First Niagara Bank branch at 529 Elmwood Ave. at about 3:30 p.m. Friday.

She was described as black, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing about 105 pounds and wearing a black North Face jacket, blue jeans and a blue striped hat.

She reportedly fled on foot with an undetermined amount of money. Police ask anyone with information about the incident to call 847-2255.
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Cheektowaga woman arrested for DWI in Orchard Park

January 31, 2014, 7:28 pm
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A 43-year-old Cheektowaga woman was charged with driving while intoxicated at about 9 a.m. Thursday after she was found disoriented at the wheel of a car with the engine still running in the parking lot of a Rite Aid drug store on Orchard Park Road, Orchard Park police said.

Bonnie Colley admitted drinking Thursday morning and also taking prescription medication, police said. Colley, who also was charged with an open container violation, was released to a relative and is to appear Feb. 11 in Orchard Park Town Court.
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State police plan crackdown on drunken driving over Super Bowl weekend

January 31, 2014, 7:38 pm
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State police in Western New York will be cracking down on drunken and distracted driving over the Super Bowl weekend, according to Major Michael Cerreto.

“Everyone knows that drinking and driving can be a lethal combination and so can texting and driving,” Cerreto said. “We are asking motorists to not take chances, if you are going to drink, don’t drive, have a designated driver or arrange other transportation to and from your event,” he said. “Don’t use your phone while driving because that text or that call can wait until you get to your location or safely pull over and stop,” he added.
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Hamburg man arrested for assault at Orchard Park bar

January 31, 2014, 8:10 pm
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A 27-year-old Hamburg man was arrested this week on a second-degree assault charged for allegedly hitting another man over the head with a beer bottle during an altercation in O’Neil’s Stadium Inn on Abbott Road in Orchard Park about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 18.

Shawn Gretzler was charged when he appeared in Orchard Park Town Court earlier this week for proceedings on an earlier driving while intoxicated charge. He is free on bail in the assault case pending further court proceedings at on Feb. 25.

Orchard Park police said an investigation of the Jan. 18 bar incident is continuing and further charges may be filed.
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Snowmobiler charged after crash into ice-fishing shanty

February 1, 2014, 6:14 am
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CHAUTAUQUA – A 31-year-old Ohio woman was arrested overnight for snowmobiling while intoxicated after she crashed into an ice fishing shanty, narrowly missing the three occupants, on Chautauqua Lake, sheriff’s deputies reported.

Chautauqua County deputies responded at 1 a.m. to the reported accident. They found that Christina M. Black, of Burghill, Ohio, had been operating a 2006 Ski-Doo snowmobile northbound on the lake’s frozen surface, about 200 yards from the shore of Lakeside Park in Mayville, when she struck the shanty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies say no one was injured but the shanty and other ice-fishing equipment was damaged or destroyed. Black was arrested for snowmobiling while intoxicated with a blood alcohol level greater than 0.08 percent and riding too fast within 100 feet of a person or ice-fishing structure.

She must return to Chautauqua Town Court to face the charges.
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Dayton mother charged with exposing daughter to pot growing

February 1, 2014, 6:21 am
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DAYTON – A Cattaraugus County mother is charged with exposing her 9-year-old daughter to a marijuana growing operation in their home, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Roslyn A. Lesniak, 53, of Dayton, was charged Thursday with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of marijuana following a November incident. She must answer the charges in Dayton Town Court at a later date.
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S. Dakota man arrested for DWI after hit-and-run crash in Dunkirk

February 1, 2014, 6:31 am
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DUNKIRK – A South Dakota man was arrested for driving while intoxicated following a hit-and-run accident early today, according to state police from the Fredonia barracks.

Troopers say John Spray, 33, drove into the back of another vehicle coming out of the Applebee’s on Vineyard Drive at about 12:10 a.m. He fled the scene but didn’t get far and was found by troopers at the Comfort Inn hotel across the street.

Spray was arrested after failing field sobriety tests and testing at the state police station found his blood alcohol level was 0.14 percent, well above the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

He was arraigned in Dunkirk Town Court and remanded to the Chautauqua County Jail.
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One teen stabbed, another pepper sprayed on Metro train

February 1, 2014, 11:05 am
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One young woman was stabbed in the abdomen and another was pepper-sprayed in the face Friday night on a Metro rail train after one group of teens followed another group of teens from a basketball game in downtown Buffalo, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority reported Saturday.

The two groups knew each other, and the victims identified at least two possible assailants, but no arrests have been made and the investigation continues, according to NFTA police and agency spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer.

The dispute started at Erie Community College’s Flickinger Center, where two teens had gotten into a fight earlier in the evening. One group of girls and young women left the center and walked to the Church Station, pursued by the other teens.

As members of the first group boarded an outbound Metro train at about 9:10 p.m., members of the other group held the train doors open, stabbed one girl in the stomach and spit on and pepper sprayed another in the face and eyes.

The attackers fled east on North Division Street and the weapon hasn’t been recovered.

The 18-year-old who was sprayed was taken to Erie County Medical Center. The 15-year-old who was stabbed was taken to Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, where she was to undergo surgery for an injury that wasn’t considered life-threatening.

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Buffalo police find missing 9-year-old

February 1, 2014, 12:49 pm
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Buffalo police found a 9-year-old boy who had been reported missing since Friday evening this afternoon, shortly after police put out a plea to the public to help find him.

The boy was located at a friend’s house on E. Ferry Street, police said.

Police say the boy disappeared from his home on Glenwood Avenue sometime after 5:30 p.m., when his father last saw him.

Investigators believe he and another boy ended up at the Tops Friendly Markets at Jefferson Avenue and East Utica Street three hours later, but they had no further information about his whereabouts.
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Police say man pointed gun inside restaurant

February 1, 2014, 8:29 pm
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Buffalo police arrested a male for waving a gun inside a University District restaurant.

The incident happened shortly after 3 a.m. on Friday inside Jim’s Steakout, 3094 Main St., according to police reports.

The person was accused of pointing a gun at a female inside the restaurant while asking for his food, police records show. The gunman ran out of the restaurant before police arrived.

Officers located the suspect nearby on Main Street, where they found a .25-caliber handgun in his front pants pocket.

The gun was not loaded.

Charged with second-degree menacing and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon was Keontae Fisher, no age or address available.
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Ban on texting while driving called a success

February 1, 2014, 8:29 pm
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News that the number texting-while-driving tickets went up 82 percent in the past year for a 2013 statewide total of 55,000 was a gratifying milestone for the mother of a young man who died while texting.

“That’s incredible. Absolutely incredible,” said Kelly Cline, who helped organize Families Against Texting While Driving with Sen. Tim Kennedy, D-Buffalo. Even though the group successfully lobbied to get the current version of the law passed in 2011, she said, having police issue tickets is essential for it work.

“We can fight for the laws. We can get the laws passed. It’s all about enforcement. If the police didn’t enforce it, it wouldn’t mean anything at all,” she said. “It means that they believe in it, too. I couldn’t be happier. That is absolutely fantastic.”

The law now allows officers to stop drivers who they see texting. An earlier version only let officers cite motorists for texting if there was another, “primary” offense, like speeding.

Her son A.J. Larson, 20, died in 2007 when he ran a stop sign and was hit by a garbage truck as he was leaving his family’s Clinton Street neighborhood in West Seneca. A police investigation found he had been texting.

“I decided I had to do something,” she said.

Cline said she has been pleased with the support from Kennedy and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who she met when he made the trip here to sign the bill.

In his state of the state address last month, Cuomo said he intends to add to the law and suspend the licenses for a year if drivers under 20 are caught texting while driving.

“He just grabbed it and ran with it,” Cline said of Cuomo. “It seems like every year he’s improved it and strenghthend it.”
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Man held at gunpoint punched and robbed

February 1, 2014, 8:31 pm
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A man told Buffalo police he was punched and robbed over the weekend while inside a Walden Avenue shop.

Two people entered the shop at 740 Walden Ave. at about 5:30 p.m. on Friday, according to police reports. The address is listed as Walden Auto Mart Sales and Service.

One of the robbers punched the man in the nose and lip, while the other held a gun on him, police said. They took the victim’s wallet, $500 from his pocket and a cell phone before running away.
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DWI suspect found asleep in rest area closet

February 2, 2014, 2:32 pm
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OLEAN – Footprints in the snow led State Police to a suspected drunken driver, who was found sleeping in a closet at a rest area, Troopers reported Sunday.

After finding a car parked in the median of the Southern Tier Expressway (I-86), troopers followed footprints to the Allegany rest area building. Trevor T. Jimerson, 37, of Steamburg, was found sleeping in a closet.

Jimerson was charged with a felony count of driving while intoxicated, as well as unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. Following arraignment in Olean City Court, he was sent to Cattaraugus County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail; he’s to appear today in Allegany Town Court.



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Fredonia man charged with DWI, marijuana possession

February 2, 2014, 2:37 pm
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PORTLAND – State troopers arrested a Fredonia man and charged him with drunken driving and marijuana possession Sunday morning.

Troopers charged Mark Snyder, 20, with aggravated driving while intoxicated and marijuana possession after stopping him for having an unlighted license plate on Route 5 in the Town of Portland.

He failed field sobriety tests and was found with 4 grams of marijuana and a marijuana smoking pipe, State Police said. He was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.18 percent and was issued tickets for the Portland Town Court, police stated.
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Grand Island man charged with DWI

February 2, 2014, 2:41 pm
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A man whose vehicle went off the road on Grand Island was charged with driving while intoxicated, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported Sunday.

A deputy sent to West River Road to investigate a report about the vehicle found its driver, Stephen Bobak, 27, of Grand Island, was intoxicated, authorities said. Bobak was taken into custody, and deputies said, a breath test he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.19.

Bobak was released on tickets to appear in Grand Island Town Court.

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Springville motorist charged with DWI

February 2, 2014, 2:43 pm
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The driver of a vehicle that went off the road at a Springville intersection was charged early Sunday with driving while intoxicated, according to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies responded shortly after 7:30 a.m. to a report of a vehicle off the road at Sharp and North streets. The driver apparently had tried to make a left turn onto Sharp Street while traveling at an excessive speed, deputies said.

Kyle D. Wiedemann, 23, of Sharp Street, failed field sobriety tests, deputies said, and a breath test indicated a blood-alcohol content of 0.17.

Wiedemann was cited for speed not reasonable and prudent, as well as charged with DWI, deputies said. His vehicle was towed and was to be held for 12 hours; Wiedemann was released in the custody of a third party, pending an appearance in Springville Village Court.
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Delta Sonic burglarized

February 2, 2014, 2:46 pm
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The North Buffalo Delta Sonic at 2636 Delaware Ave. was burglarized early Sunday after a thief broke into the business’s inventory room.

Buffalo Police reported that at 3:47 a.m., someone threw a rock through a 4-by-5 foot double pane window on the north side of the building, then kicked in a door to the inventory room, according to a complainant.

After removing items, the suspect fled out the rear door, across the Delta Sonic lot to a vehicle parked on the street, the report stated. An inventory list of what was taken is being submitted separately to the police. Police are looking at footprints and video footage.
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Man injured trying to prevent car from fleeing

February 2, 2014, 2:50 pm
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A car accident victim was injured after he got out of his car and tried to prevent the other car from leaving the scene of an accident on the Scajaquada Expressway at the Elmwood Avenue exit Sunday.

According to Buffalo Police, accident victim David Bradshaw of Cambridge Avenue, Buffalo, got out of his car and stood in front of a Honda Civic involved in the accident to keep the other driver from leaving.

The driver of the 2001 Civic, Buffalo State College student Keith Stockton, reportedly then struck Bradshaw with his vehicle and drove away from the scene, according to the police report. Bradshaw was taken to Erie County Medical Center with neck and hip injuries, police said.
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