Niagara Veterans Court opens with two guilty pleas
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Veterans Court opened for business Thursday, with County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas accepting guilty pleas in two drunken driving cases.Allyn D. Smith, 32, of Bollier Avenue,...
View ArticleMom of two charged with dealing crack in Niagara Falls
LOCKPORT – Rashie K. Perry, the mother of children ages 1 and 6, pleaded not guilty in Niagara County Court Thursday to an indictment accusing her of making crack cocaine sales to a police informant...
View ArticleTrafficking in knockoff Nikes sends Chinese immigrant couple to prison
Ling Zen Hu was described as an “illiterate” and “simple” woman who barely spoke English trying to succeed as a clerk in one of two New York City sneaker warehouses.Her husband worked long hours as a...
View ArticleProbation violators draw one year each in Niagara County Jail
LOCKPORT – Two men who admitted violating the terms of their probation sentences were ordered to spend a year in the Niagara County Jail by County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas Thursday.Josh P. Czamara,...
View ArticleHomeless brothers among those charged in Niagara Falls burglaries
LOCKPORT – Two brothers who were kicked out of their Niagara Falls home and spent some nights sleeping in the woods were arraigned this week in Niagara County Court, charged with a string of...
View ArticleDrug charges lodged in routine traffic stop
A Columbus Avenue man stopped by police as he drove out of his own driveway without working headlights was arrested on drug charges early Thursday. Debashish Kake, 34, was charged with criminal...
View ArticleWoman accused of slashing tire during argument with neighbor
A Crestwood Avenue woman is accused of slashing the front tire of a neighbor’s car during an argument early Wednesday evening. Cecile P. Puckhaber, 33, was charged with criminal mischief and...
View ArticleRobbery reported at Niagara Falls M&T branch on Main
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls Police detectives are looking for a man who made off with an undetermined amount of money in a robbery at about 12:40 p.m. Friday at the M&T Bank branch on Main...
View ArticleBrockport motorcyclist killed in LeRoy collision
LeROY – A Brockport motorcyclist was killed early Friday in a collision with a Smart car driven by an out-of-state driver making a U-turn, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office reported.Joshua J....
View ArticleBuffalo police warn of potentially fatal batch of ‘heroin’
Local police are warning that an extremely powerful and potentially fatal batch of drugs, being sold as heroin, has hit the Buffalo area.Laboratory tests confirmed that one of two batches of heroin...
View ArticleLeRoy man charged in business burglary
LeROY – A 20-year-old Leroy man was arrested Friday in connection with a burglary earlier in the day at a Mill Street business.Bishop E. Williams of Lake Street is being held on three counts of...
View ArticleOlean man pleads to federal tax charges
An Olean businessman pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges Friday during a proceeding before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.Edmund J. Renaud, 70, faces a prison term of up to five years...
View ArticleCambria man admits to attacking woman
LOCKPORT – A Cambria man pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court Friday to a charge of violating a restraining order by roughing up a woman March 12.Robert G. Holmes, 32, of Upper Mountain Road,...
View ArticleBuffalo man admits to two cocaine felonies in Falls cases
LOCKPORT – Jonathan D. Bersani accepted a plea deal in Niagara County Court Friday, admitting to two cocaine felonies while avoiding prosecution on a third.Bersani, 21, of Koons Avenue, Buffalo, a...
View ArticleFive injured, one critically, in South Buffalo crash
Five people were taken to area hospitals after a two-car crash at about 3:20 p.m. Friday at South Park and Dorrance avenues. One of the injured was listed in critical condition at Erie County Medical...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man charged with three 2012 drug deals
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man was arraigned in Niagara County Court Friday on an indictment charging him with making three cocaine sales to a police informant in that city last year.Patrick E....
View ArticleJailhouse informant may have hoodwinked DePetris in Niagara Falls hitman case
LOCKPORT – Timothy C. DePetris, the Niagara Falls businessman accused of trying to murder his brother-in-law and then trying to hire a hitman to finish the job, may have been hoodwinked by a jailhouse...
View ArticleRansomville man avoids prison in felony DWI case
LOCKPORT – Ronald A. Bugyi Jr., 40, of New Road, Ransomville, pleased and surprised Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas by his success on six months of interim probation for felony driving while...
View ArticleLockport man charged under Leandra’s Law after one-car crash
CAMBRIA – A 33-year-old Lockport man who was injured in a one-car crash was charged with felony drunk driving under Leandra’s Law Friday for having three children in his vehicle, the Niagara County...
View ArticleTwo accused of selling pot on West Ferry
Two men were charged with selling marijuana in the second block of West Ferry Street early Thursday, Buffalo police reported Friday.Niles Jones, 32, of Whitney Place, and Joseph Dodds, 22, of Grant...
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