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Crangle given conditional discharge in domestic incident

April 11, 2013, 1:12 pm
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Daniel Crangle, a member of the Town of Tonawanda Board, has been sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge after pleading guilty to a harassment charge in a domestic violence case.

Crangle, 59, pleaded guilty to the violation during an April 5 court appearance in Buffalo. A misdemeanor count of stalking was dismissed.

“For a first-time DV [domestic violence] offender, that’s a pretty typical resolution of the case, if the victim approves,” said Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III. The victim was present at the proceeding and approved the disposition, Sedita noted.

Crangle was arrested by town police on Feb. 16, after a complaint was filed by his estranged wife, Kit.

The case was transferred to Erie County’s Integrated Domestic Violence Court, a specialized court created in 2003 so that domestic violence victims wouldn’t have to appear before different judges in multiple courts to deal with separate criminal, family and matrimonial cases.

Rachel Newton, chief of the District Attorney Office’s Domestic Violence Bureau, was the prosecutor.

After State Supreme Court Justice Deborah A. Haendiges recused herself from the case last month, it was assigned to Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III, who presides over the integrated court in that county.

The conditional discharge calls for Crangle to live a law-abiding life and have no further arrests, among other things. He also waived sealing the records, “which means he’s got a record now,” Sedita said.

The judge also issued a two-year, no-contact order of protection, which supersedes an earlier order issued by a Kenmore village justice.

Contacted on Thursday, Crangle said: “It’s a personal matter between me and my wife, and I want it to stay that way.”



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Union leader gets probation

April 11, 2013, 1:49 pm
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A former official with a local transportation union was sentenced Thursday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to three years of probation for embezzling $39,000 in union funds.

Joseph Grygorcewicz, 63, of Amherst, former secretary-treasurer of Local 1566, United Transportation Union, admitted stealing the money between late 2009 and early 2011.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Ippolito Jr. said Grygorcewicz had check-writing authorization – the union required two signatures on every check – and used it to cash checks with his signature and the forged signature of the union president.

Local 1566 represents local railroad workers.
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Over $7,000 worth of electronics stolen in Falls burglary

April 11, 2013, 2:40 pm
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NIAGARA FALLS –Television sets, a DVD player, computer, printer and telephone were stolen in an overnight burglary in the 2900 block of Ninth Street, police reported Wednesday.

The 71-year-old victim said sometime between 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and 4 a.m. Wednesday someone cut the screen on a west side door and then broke the glass to gain entry to her apartment.

She said a 45-inch television/DVD combo was taken from the bedroom and a 60-inch television set was taken from the living room. A printer, landline telephone and computer which were in a downstairs computer room also were taken, she said.

Total loss ws estimated at $7,150.
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Wednesday night’s shooting victim identified by Buffalo police

April 11, 2013, 6:24 pm
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The victim of the fatal shooting Wednesday night in the 1000 block of East Ferry Street was identified Thursday by Buffalo police as Hakeem Benjamin, 26.

Homicide detectives and uniformed officers still were looking for suspects in the shooting in a corner delicatessen.

Anyone with information is asked to call or text the police Confidential TIPCALL Line at (716)847-2255.
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Autistic man remains in critical condition at ECMC

April 11, 2013, 6:33 pm
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Marc Weinfeld, the autistic man who was a well-known figure in downtown Buffalo, where he sold his plastic-threaded boondoggles every workday morning, remained in critical condition and on life support Thursday evening in Erie County Medical Center.

Weinfeld, 58, was struck by a car at about 7:30 a.m. Monday while walking on Oak Street at the Clinton Street intersection. Weinfeld, a former Amherst resident, in recent years had been living with an Elma couple serving as his caretakers.

Marcia Weinfeld Goode, a concert violinist, who flew to Buffalo with her husband, Richard Goode, a Grammy-award winning classical pianist Wednesday evening, said they saw Weinfeld at the hospital Thursday and “It was a very hard day, very hard.”

Marcia Goode, whose husband canceled some of his current performances to come to Buffalo with her, said of her brother: “We just love him and spent a lot of time” by his bedside. She said a number of his friends stopped by ECMC’s trauma intensive care unit and looked in on him. “It was very comforting,” she said. “We wish we could turn back the clock, but it can’t be done.”

The driver who struck Weinfeld was not charged.



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Judge allows Maid of Mist project to continue; bidding issue unsettled

April 11, 2013, 6:41 pm
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NIAGARA FALLS – A judge has allowed the Maid of the Mist Corp. to resume work on its new boat docking and service facility in the Niagara River Gorge, but the question of whether the company will get to use it remains unsettled.

State Supreme Court Justice Catherine Nugent Panepinto on Thursday threw out a lawsuit by a local preservation group that had obtained a court order last Friday temporarily stopping work on the project. She lifted the ban on construction of the $32 million project, effective immediately.

“The Maid of the Mist would probably be out of business if this project doesn’t go forward,” said its attorney, Brian Gwitt of the Buffalo firm of Damon & Morey.

But Panepinto reserved decision on whether the Maid’s contract to provide boat tours below Niagara Falls, as it has since 1846, should be subject to competitive bidding.

Hornblower Cruises, the California company that last year took the Canadian boat-tour license away from Maid of the Mist after Ontario allowed open bidding, has sued New York State to force it to hold competitive bidding for the tour boat service on the American side of the falls. The administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo amended the Maid’s existing contract late in 2012 to increase the amount of money the company would have to pay the state and to allow construction of the boat facility on the American side.

With Hornblower in control on the Canadian side after this year, the Maid would no longer have access to its facilities there.

After two hours of oral argument over the restraining order obtained by the Niagara Preservation Coalition, a newly minted group set up with Hornblower’s assistance, Panepinto ruled that the group led by Louis Ricciuti of Niagara Falls lacks standing to sue.

The coalition’s lawsuit said the New York Power Authority’s environmental review process for the project was rushed and flawed. It contended that the work would bury the ruins of the old Schoellkopf Power Station, which collapsed into the gorge in 1956. That led to the founding of the Power Authority and the construction of the Niagara Power Project.

The Schoellkopf site was added to the National Register of Historic Places six weeks ago. “The project buries the historic resource,” said Linda R. Shaw, Ricciuti’s Hornblower-recommended attorney. “This project is eliminating a lot of that National Registry site ... Only about half of it will be left.”

Assistant State Attorney General George Zimmermann said the Maid’s project had been approved by the state Historic Preservation Office.

“It preserves the situation for future archaeological discovery,” Zimmermann said. “It’s not being bulldozed away. It’s being encapsulated.”

“Let’s be clear about this. This is rubble,” Gwitt, the Maid’s attorney, said. “This is a power plant that fell in 1956, and it’s rubbish.”

Panepinto asked Shaw for a list of coalition members, but Shaw could come up with only five and told the judge she could hand in something later.

Under state environmental law, “Not anybody gets to sue,” said John J. Henry, an attorney for the Power Authority. “You have to show injury in fact, different from the public at large ... We think this is one of the weakest attempts to circumvent that rule.”

Attempting to show personal injury to her clients, Shaw said a hiking trail in the gorge would be cut off for 18 months by the construction project. “Lou and his colleagues have hiked that trail since childhood,” she said.

Panepinto didn’t buy it: “What about a company that’s going to go out of business? What do you say to 300 [construction] people who are making prevailing wage, sitting at home?”

Ricciuti said he intends to appeal Panepinto’s ruling.

On the bidding issue, Hornblower attorney Edward G. Kehoe said he wasn’t challenging the validity of the Maid’s 2003 no-bid contract. But he insisted last year’s contract amendment was a new deal that should have caused a round of bidding, because the conditions had significantly changed with the larger payments to the state and the construction of the new boat facility. “If the Maid could perform under the 2003 contract without a $32 million investment, we wouldn’t be here,” he said. “Up until now, everyone thought it was impossible to build [on the U.S. side of the river].”

Gwitt said an amendment was not a new contract, and no bidding is required because the state isn’t spending any money on the project. “This license is valid, and it’s exclusive,” he said, adding the Maid has the tour rights until 2043 unless there is a breach of contract.



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Carpenter paralyzed in job-site accident gets $18.5 million settlement

April 11, 2013, 7:18 pm
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A Town of Tonawanda man paralyzed in a construction-site accident will receive $18.5 million to settle his State Supreme Court lawsuit. The settlement was approved this week.

Anthony M. Grasso, 38, became paralyzed from the waist down two years ago after breaking through a particle board that covered a stairwell opening and falling 14 feet to the ground floor. He was erecting walls for a building under construction on North French Road in East Amherst.

The case was settled just before jury selection in the trial, which was to determine damages, said John F. Maxwell, one of Grasso’s attorneys.

The settlement compensates Grasso for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and lost wages.

“He didn’t know he was standing on particle board,” Maxwell said. “He assumed it was plywood like the rest of the second floor. Unbeknownst to him, someone placed particle board over the opening.”

The particle board was obscured by snow, Maxwell said.

Grasso has undergone three spinal surgeries and faces more surgeries. He has showed grit and determination to keep himself healthy, his lawyer said.

“His goal is to avail himself of cutting-edge technology for spinal cord injuries,” Maxwell said, such as stem cell therapy or a robotic walking machine called the Exoskeleton.

Before the damages trial, Justice Patrick H. NeMoyer had already found 4900 North French LLC and Bevilacqua and Associates Development, both of East Amherst, liable for Grasso’s injuries.

The particle board had been secured by no more than two nails, when six or even as many as 20 were needed to adequately secure it, the judge noted.

Patrick G. Rimar, an attorney for the defendants, said his clients were not at fault.

New York law holds property owners responsible for injuries to workers on their property, regardless of the circumstances, he said. “The judge found we did absolutely nothing wrong, but because of the state’s Scaffold Law, we still have 100 percent liability,” he said.

The property is owned by 4900 North French, which had a contract with David Burke Construction for framing work at the commercial building. Bevilacqua was the property manager, Rimar said.

In January, NeMoyer ruled that 4900 North French and Bevilacqua “demonstrated that Burke was solely responsible for controlling the activities and providing for the safety of the plaintiff and his fellow employees.”

“The case ended in a way that was fair to all parties,” Rimar said.

Grasso, who had been employed by Burke Construction for about seven years at the time of the accident, did not have to testify at a trial. But the former carpenter, in a deposition, described how he has begun to rebuild his life.

He described driving his Chevrolet Silverado using hand controls and working out three times a week at the Town of Tonawanda’s Aquatic and Fitness Center to strengthen his upper-body muscles.

He lives with his wife and four children in the home he owned before the injury. A $120,000 addition was built – including a bedroom, bathroom and garage – that made his home accessible for him.

However, the catastrophic injury cost him a federal job he was on the verge of landing.

When the accident occurred, he was waiting to hear when he could begin training to become a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer. He was told he was on the list to be hired, and the agency had accepted him into its academy.

The accident on March 23, 2011, ended that prospect.

Shortly before 2 p.m., Grasso was on the second floor of the site and walked toward an exterior wall so he could take a measurement of that wall and figure out how to lay out an interior wall.

For a couple of seconds, he stood on the 4-foot-by-4-foot particle board covering the stairwell opening. The board had been picked out of a pile of scrap materials and placed over the opening, according to court records.

“I was ready to pull out my tape, and I fell through the floor,” Grasso recounted in his deposition.

“I went through feet first, but somehow I ended up almost headfirst,” he recalled. “I tried grabbing anything. It just happened so fast.”

After he landed on his back, “I remember … looking up and just seeing the hole,” he said. He tried to get up but could not.

Grasso and his family were represented by Maxwell and William D. Murphy of the Buffalo law firm of Maxwell Murphy as well as by Mario A. Giacobbe of the Cheektowaga law firm of Jaworski & Giacobbe.



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Falls bust nets over 100 prescription drugs packaged for sale, loaded gun

April 11, 2013, 7:21 pm
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NIAGARA FALLS – A long-term investigation into prescription narcotics being sold on Niagara Avenue led to the arrest of a suspected dealer.

Niagara Falls Police narcotics detectives, the city’s Emergency Response Team and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents served a warrant early Thursday, just after midnight, at 1604 Niagara and arrested two men, including one who had a loaded handgun by his side.

Gregory N. Perry, 20, of Ferry Avenue, was charged with third- and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, third- and fourth-degree possession of a weapon and fourth-degree possession of marijuana.

Another man at the scene, Christopher M. Monaco, 45, of Jackson Street, Lockport, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance when he was found with one prescription narcotic pill and second-degree obstructing governmental administration for trying to block officers as they entered so that Perry could get to his gun, said Niagara Falls Narcotics Capt. David LeGault.

Narcotics Detective Lt. Theodore Weed said Perry had the Taurus .45-caliber handgun next to him as the Emergency Response Team and federal agents forcibly entered to serve the warrant.

“The ERT team got in before he could reach for it,” said Weed, praising the quick action of city and federal agents.

At the scene, detectives recovered four plastic bags packaged for sale with a total of 135 narcotic prescription pills, two Ecstasy tablets, digital scales and spice mills, as well as two baggies of marijuana, which the men had been smoking when police entered, Weed said.

“They are really making a ton of money on this,” Weed said.



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Second suspect arrested in attack on elderly Buffalo man

April 11, 2013, 7:22 pm
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A 19-year-old Buffalo man was arrested Thursday as the second of the three suspects linked to the Nov. 24 attack on Levi Clayton, the 96-year-old Buffalo church deacon who died Wednesday in Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Jordon McKinnon, no address listed, was arraigned in Buffalo City Court on felony robbery and burglary charges in connection with the home invasion at the victim’s Longview Avenue home.

Justice Feggans, 18, a former Riverside High School basketball star, was the first suspect arrested.

Police still were looking for the third suspect shown on the home surveillance system that had been set up at the elderly victim’s home.

If the Erie County Medical Examiner’s office makes a determination that Clayton’s death was the result of the facial fractures he suffered in the November attack, homicide or manslaughter-related charges could be placed against his attackers. Clayton was an active deacon at Buffalo’s Friendship Baptist Church.
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Attorney for alleged accomplice rethinking strategy in murder case

April 11, 2013, 7:24 pm
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LOCKPORT – The attorney for the Buffalo teen accused of helping dump the body of a slain 5-year-old girl in a garbage tote said Thursday that he is rethinking a motion to have his client’s case tried separately from that of the alleged killer. The possible change in strategy came after evidence admitted last week indicated the accused killer reportedly admitted the crime to police.

Tyler S. Best, 18, of Barnard Street, is charged with a felony count of tampering with physical evidence for allegedly helping 17-year-old John R. Freeman Jr. dispose of the girl’s body. The two are accused of throwning the body of Isabella S. Tennant, of Cheektowaga, in the tote after Freeman had allegedly strangled her in her great-grandparents’ house in Niagara Falls on Aug. 26.

Best’s attorney, James J. Faso Jr., told Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III that he’s considering modifying his severance motion after reviewing testimony given in Freeman’s hearing last week. Faso said after court that a prior gag order in the case prevented him from discussing what prompted the change in strategy.

But in the hearing last week, Murphy admitted into evidence all of Freeman’s statements to police, which included his comments about Best.

Best reportedly went to the Police Department while police were looking for Isabella and told police he had helped Freeman stuff the girl’s body into a stolen garbage tote, which they left in an alley.

Freeman, a frequent visitor to the home who sometimes baby-sat Isabella, had been the last to see her and was being questioned by police in the missing-child case. After getting the information from Best, detectives reportedly got Freeman to admit his guilt.

According to Freeman’s testimony read in court last week, he agreed to answer questions, saying, “I guess so, because I already heard Tyler Best snitched.”

Freeman then went further when pressed by Detective Daniel Dobrasz, saying, “I already heard he said I did it, so I did it.”

Freeman is charged with second-degree murder.

The judge told Faso in court Thursday that it may be best to hear both sides at the same time so Faso is able to respond to any information that comes to light extemporaneously.

Best and Freeman are to return to court together May 2.



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Judge refuses to throw out charge in murder case

April 12, 2013, 4:40 pm
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LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas on Friday denied a defense request to dismiss a weapons possession charge against Darius M. Belton, whose murder trial in connection with the shooting death of his uncle is to begin Wednesday.

Belton, 18, is charged with shooting Luis Ubiles, 37, on Sept. 25, as Belton stood on the front porch of his home on South Avenue in Niagara Falls. Defense attorney Angelo Musitano said a charge of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon should be thrown out because the law says for possession to be a crime, the gun must not be in the defendant’s home or place of business.

Farkas said as far as she’s concerned, a porch is not part of a home and she will charge the jury accordingly.

Assistant District Attorney Claudette S. Caldwell said the prosecution believes if Belton is convicted, the gun sentence could be served consecutively with the murder sentence, making him face a maximum of 40 years to life in prison.

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Identity thief pleads guilty to DWI, false impersonation.

April 12, 2013, 5:12 pm
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An Amherst man who tried to make police believe he was his brother during a drunk driving arrest pleaded guilty Thursday to driving while intoxicated, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and false impersonation charges.

According to the Erie County District Attorney’s office, Michael Engel, 28, pretended to be his brother when he was pulled over by Amherst police officers at 3:40 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2012. Police said Engel, who could not provide any identification, failed a field sobriety, fled the scene but was quickly apprehended and administered another sobriety test, which he also failed.

Despite police suspicions that Engel was lying about his identity, police said he persisted in using his brother’s first name in attempt to shield his own criminal history from police. Michael Engel’s driver license was revoked because of 2010 DWI conviction.

He faces up to four years in state prison when he is sentenced before Erie County Court Judge Michael F. Pietruszka at 9:30 a.m. on June 18.
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Lancaster police warn of “spoofing” phone scam

April 12, 2013, 5:23 pm
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Lancaster police detectives are warning people about a recent attempted “spoofing” scam.

Spoofing refers to placing a phone call from one number while a different number shows up on the recipient’s caller ID, according to police.

In the recent case, a town resident received a call on her cell phone that indicated the call was coming from the Lancaster Police Department.

The caller identified herself as a department employee, claimed the call recipient needed to pay an outstanding bill and directed the recipient to another phone number to arrange payment for the debt.

Police say the woman who received the call was suspicious and wisely called the department to confirm the call was a scam.

Anyone who has received a similar call is asked to contact Lancaster police at 683-2800.
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Death of elderly burglary victim ruled a homicide

April 12, 2013, 5:28 pm
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The death earlier this week of 96-year-old Levi Clayton has been ruled a homicide. The East Side resident never fully recovered from injuries suffered last November, when burglars broke into his home and beat him.

Complications from the blunt force trauma the attackers inflicted led to the death of the World War II veteran Wednesday in Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center, authorities said.

“Erie County medical examiners have ruled the death as a homicide, concluding that the victim died from complications due to blunt force trauma,” police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge said in releasing the results from the autopsy conducted Friday.

Two teenagers already have been charged in the Nov. 24 burglary and robbery and now may face homicide or manslaughter charges, according to police. Investigators are still searching for at least one more individual thought to be involved in the home invasion.

“Additional charges, an upgrading, is certainly a possibility in light of the medical examiner’s ruling of homicide,” Chief of Detectives Dennis J. Richards said.

Clayton was beaten in his Longview Avenue home in the Delavan-Grider neighborhood, just a few blocks from Erie County Medical Center, where he spent weeks initially receiving treatment for a broken jaw and numerous other injuries.

The viciousness of the attack shocked the community and prompted a rally in front of his home to appeal for information on the identity of the attackers.

Surveillance cameras installed on the exterior of the elderly man’s home captured images of the robbers going up the driveway to the house and a dark-colored minivan they might have used as a getaway vehicle.

In January, Justice Feggans, 18, a former Riverside High School basketball star, was arrested and charged with robbery and burglary. On Tuesday, Jordon McKinnon, 19, of Buffalo, was arrested and charged with the same felony counts.

A respected member of the community, Clayton served as a World War II infantry soldier in the European Theater and, when he returned from the war, found work in the auto industry, from which he eventually retired. He was also active for years as a deacon at Buffalo’s Friendship Baptist Church.

Neighbors on Longview Avenue on Friday afternoon said they were glad about the prospect that Clayton’s attackers could face more serious charges.

“Being 96 years old and taking the beating like that, I really hope that they throw the book at them,” said Wanda Anderson. “There’s more of them to catch, and I am hoping the police get them.”

Anderson, who is a friend of Clayton’s relatives, said she was told that medically there was not much that could have been done for him. She said Ela Goree, Clayton’s niece, told her, “They could only keep him comfortable and he would not be around as long as they hoped for.”

Anderson said she noticed the dark-colored minivan pulled up by Clayton’s house in the early evening of Nov. 24 and said she thought nothing of it.

Another neighbor said he also observed the van and wishes now that he had called police.

“I saw them pull up, and I wished that I called the police,” he said asking not be identified. “I don’t think Mr. Clayton deserved to spend his last days like that. They should have been lived in peace. Who would want to go out like that?”



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Lockport men deny drug-dealing charges

April 12, 2013, 5:28 pm
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LOCKPORT – Two Lockport men pleaded not guilty two four-count drug-dealing indictments Friday in Niagara County Court.

Brandon McKinney, 31, of Spalding Street, and Dominique L. Middleton, 21, of Elmwood Avenue, each are charged with two counts each of third-degree criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance.

McKinney was accused of selling heroin Oct. 1 and powdered cocaine Nov. 21, while Middleton was charged with selling crack cocaine July 30 and Nov. 28.

All the alleged deals occurred in the City of Lockport and were audio-taped by police informants, Assistant District Attorney Peter M. Wydysh said.
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Hit-and-run DWI suspect fails to appear in court

April 12, 2013, 5:28 pm
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LOCKPORT – A man who allegedly was driving drunk when his car broke a pedestrian’s leg on the night before Thanksgiving failed to appear in Niagara County Court for his arraignment on a six-count indictment Friday.

Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas issued an arrest warrant for Mark J. Brown, 43, of 87th Street, Niagara Falls, who is charged with second-degree assault and vehicular assault, leaving the scene of a serious physical injury accident, tampering with physical evidence, misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and an unsafe lane change.

John K. Watson, 58, was injured as he stood in the median of Niagara Falls Boulevard attempting to finish crossing the street near Niemel Drive in the Falls at 6:27 p.m. Nov. 21. Police reported that Brown’s blood alcohol content was measured at 0.13 percent in a blood test four hours later, after his arrest at his home.
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Two arrested, toddler removed in Jamestown drug raid

April 12, 2013, 5:35 pm
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JAMESTOWN – A 27-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were arrested on cocaine charges and members of the Jamestown Police SWAT Team rescued a 2-year-old child who was being taken care of in a Sampson Street home that was raided late Friday morning.

Rocco A. Beardsley and Kylie M. Reeves were both jailed on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Reeves also was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police determined she had been babysitting the 2-year-old child in the residence where drug activity was taking place.

The child was turned over to county child protection workers and the two drug suspects were held in the city jail pending further court proceedings.

Jamestown police reported seizing a quantity of both cocaine and oxycodone pills, a large sum of cash and drug paraphernalia. The raid was linked to a continuing investigation of crack cocaine sales and trafficking in the Jamestown area.

Officials said anyone with information about illegal sales of narcotics is urged to contact the Jamestown Police Anonymous Tip Line at 483-8477.
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Man charged with Falls crime spree takes plea deal

April 12, 2013, 5:37 pm
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LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty to two felonies Friday, settling a case in which he was accused of eight different crimes in September and October.

Ahmed H. McCray, 35, of Niagara Avenue, admitted to third-degree burglary and fourth-degree grand larceny and was set for sentencing June 28 by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who said she will give McCray no more than seven years in prison. Also, McCray agreed to a lifetime ban from both stores he stole from.

McCray admitted entering the office of the Wilson Farms store at 1500 Main St. on Oct. 7 and stealing some cash, and also admitted stealing more than $1,000 worth of underwear in three thefts at the Family Dollar store, 1628 Main St., between Oct. 6 and 13. McCray stuffed the clothing into a duffel bag he concealed in his pants, Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. Scalzo said.
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Amherst Street man arrested for stickup

April 12, 2013, 5:43 pm
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A 22-year-old Amherst Street man was taken into custody late Thursday in connection with a daytime stickup last month in the city’s Black Rock section.

Kendrick Pritchett was charged with first-degree robbery in connection with a gunpoint robbery in which he made off with a man’s cellphone and a wallet containing $350 at about 5:15 p.m. March 28 on Clay Street.
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Cheektowaga man charged with Riverside robbery

April 12, 2013, 5:46 pm
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A 23-year-old Cheektowaga man was arrested late Thursday night for a daytime robbery outside a store in Buffalo’s Riverside District.

Emmanuel R. Adside was taken into custody at his Hoerner Street home about 11 p.m. and charged with felony robbery for allegedly stealing $316 from a man as the victim walked out of a store on Ontario Street near Philadelphia Street about 2 p.m. March 28. Adside is accused of grabbing the man around the waist, throwing him to the ground and forcibly taking the money from his pants pocket.
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