Niagara Falls man gets 17 years for killing his uncle
LOCKPORT – An 18-year-old Niagara Falls man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in state prison for killing his uncle last fall.Darius M. Belton, 18, of South Avenue, had agreed to the sentence as part...
View ArticleStabbing defendant convicted of assault
Anthony Carter, 46, of Massachusetts Avenue, was convicted today of second-degree assault for the stabbing near his home of Alton Cooley, 24 a neighbor, who told police the defendant stabbed him the...
View ArticleCanadian loses border pass privilege with his arrest
A 58-year-old Canadian citizen living in Niagara Falls, N.Y., lost his pass privileges to cross the border between the two countries today with his arrest by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field...
View ArticleA meth lab is found for a second time in Newfane
NEWFANE – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies called Tuesday night to check on the welfare of a woman on Hope Lane uncovered a meth lab on the property, just months after it had been cleaned up at the...
View ArticleTwo Buffalo men arrested for hit-and-run crash
Two Buffalo men were arrested on charges of hit-and-run and resisting arrest after they allegedly avoided a traffic stop about 6 p.m. Wednesday on 15th street and then their car struck a parked car on...
View ArticleHandcuffed man arrested after brief flight toward freedom
LOCKPORT – A prisoner in handcuffs tried to escape from police, but he didn’t get far.An urgent call was sent out at about 2:43 p.m. today when a prisoner, identified as Tarale T. Haugabook, of...
View ArticleTwo arrested in burglary-in-progress
NIAGARA FALLS – Police led two men out of a house at gunpoint after responding to a burglary-in-progress call just after noon Wednesday in the 8300 block of Laughlin Drive.Darren J. Holland, 17, of...
View ArticleMotorycle safety checkpoints result in 92 traffic tickets
More than 80 motorcyclists and their vehicles were checked by specially-trained State Police motorcycle inspectors Wednesday evening on Gunville Road and on Main Street in Clarence. The two...
View ArticleDrunk driver using cell phone arrested in Buffalo
A 47-year-old man spotted using a cell phone while driving on William Street was stopped by Erie County Sheriff’s Deputies Daniel Harris and Richard Retzlaff at the intersection with Pine Street about...
View ArticleTeens arrested after high-speed chase in stolen truck
Three youths from Medina were arrested in Batavia about 9 p.m. Wednesday after a high-speed police chase involving a stolen truck.Batavia police, Genesee County sheriff’s deputies and agents of the...
View ArticleFreeman’s attorney seeks mental health defense in girl’s killing
LOCKPORT – John R. Freeman Jr. suffers from an assortment of mental defects caused by fetal alcohol syndrome, his attorney said Thursday in explaining why he intends to offer a mental health defense...
View ArticleFitness club owner charged with sexually drugging intern
The owner of Alessi Fitness-Kids in Williamsville was arrested Thursday by the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a college intern who was...
View ArticleHoskins says prosecutorial misconduct persisted in animal-cruelty case
Beth Lynne Hoskins says a private investigator she hired has evidence indicating that one of the prosecutors in her criminal trial on animal-cruelty charges and an SPCA investigator remain...
View ArticleEast Side grandmother admits running cocaine ring with family members
Bit by bit, Theresa Anderson’s family business is being dismantled.Her daughter pleaded guilty earlier this year, and her granddaughter followed suit Wednesday.And if all goes as prosecutors plan,...
View ArticleJury rules Nushawn Williams has condition making him likely to commit more...
MAYVILLE – A Chautauqua County jury Friday determined that Nushawn Williams has a mental abnormality that makes him likely to commit more sexual crimes in the future.Williams lost his bid to be...
View ArticleSanborn Family Mart robbed for second time this week
For the second time this week, the Sanborn Family Mart was targeted by robbers in the wee hours of the morning.A clerk called Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies about 3 a.m. Friday to report an armed...
View ArticleTwo portraits of Alessi emerge as supporters counter police claims
Two portraits of Donald A. Alessi Jr. emerged Friday, one day after the well-known exercise guru was charged by state police with spiking an energy drink with a date-rape drug and giving it to a...
View ArticleMan accused of violently shaking his baby son pleads not guilty
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man whose 3-month-old son was shaken and left permanently brain-damaged, including blindness in at least one eye, was arraigned Friday on an indictment that could land him behind...
View ArticleGrand jury indicts Buffalo man accused of burglarizing Poloncarz’s...
An Erie County grand jury has indicted a Buffalo man accused of burglarizing the Delaware Avenue home of County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s...
View Article20-year-old Buffalo man convicted of raping 15-year-old girl
An Erie County jury has convicted a 20-year-old Buffalo man of first-degree rape.Rudell Jemes, 20, of Berkshire Street, was convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl who had been locked inside the...
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