Falls man takes plea deal for bail jumping
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, who failed to show up in Niagara Falls City Court for appearances on a stolen car case, accepted a plea offer Thursday.Dejuan R. Savage, 24, of Eighth Street, admitted...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty to second drug felony
LOCKPORT – Vintaun D. Weathers, who was kicked out of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment in May because of a cocaine possession arrest, pleaded guilty to his second drug...
View ArticleLyndonville man admits selling painkillers in Newfane
LOCKPORT – A Lyndonville man pleaded guilty Thursday in Niagara County Court to selling the painkiller oxymorphone to a police informant in Newfane July 23.Christopher Bitsas, 31, of Marshall Road,...
View ArticlePrison for mentally ill man in Lockport burglary
LOCKPORT – A man who has been receiving mental health treatment since age 6 was sentenced to one to three years in prison Thursday for stealing a computer Feb. 25 from an apartment in Lockport’s Urban...
View ArticleArcade driver arrested for aggravated DWI
ARCADE – A 58-year-old Bliss man was arrested for aggravated driving while intoxicated and other charges after Arcade Police Officer Dustin Brown stopped his car on W. Main Street about 6:15 p.m....
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to attempted murder for shooting that paralyzed teen
An 18-year-old Gibson Street man pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with a shooting that paralyzed a 15-year-old girl.Damone Lewis...
View ArticleCattaraugus county phone scam alert
LITTLE VALLEY – Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy S. Whitcomb today alerted the public to a telephone scam in the Cattaraugus County area concerning phony federal government offerings. The sheriff...
View ArticleRash of burglaries overnight in Lockport
Lockport police are looking for suspects who boldly went into occupied homes through ground floor windows and unlocked doors overnight, after three burglaries were reported this morning on Franklin,...
View ArticleMoney stolen from a Yellow Goose ATM
WRIGHTS CORNERS – A district manager for a Yellow Goose store in the 3900 block of Lockport-Olcott Road told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday that $180 was taken from the store’s ATM...
View ArticleHidden cash stolen in a Newfane burglary
NEWFANE – Someone took $1,100 in cash and a watch in a burglary in the 5600 block of McKee Road, some time between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Niagara County sheriff’s deputies.The...
View ArticleMore than 50 grams of marijuana found in a traffic stop
CAMBRIA – Two Amherst men were arrested by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies on marijuana-related charges after deputies investigating a stopped car at 3 a.m. Wednesday on Lower Mountain Road said...
View ArticleFour men charged in vandalism at South Buffalo’s Houghton Park
Four men were arrested Wednesday night in connection with the recent arson in Houghton Park that left new shelters and park benches charred black.The men, who were between the ages of 17 and 20, were...
View ArticleBuffalo woman admits defrauding IRS of $25,000
A Buffalo woman who tried to avoid paying the Internal Revenue Service about $25,000 in taxes could wind up being fined more than 10 times that much when she appears for sentencing Jan. 13 before U.S....
View ArticleCocaine and a loaded gun found in two drug busts in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Two men were arrested after warrants were served Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.After a five- to six-month investigation, Niagara Falls Narcotics investigators, along with...
View ArticleTwo tons of copper stolen from Wind Farm construction site in Wyoming County
ORANGEVILLE – The Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office is seeking public assistance in its continuing investigation of the theft of nearly 4,000 pounds of large-diameter insulated and bare copper from the...
View ArticlePolice say pedestrian killed on Thruway was Orchard Park man, 26
State police identified today the man killed Thursday afternoon on the Thruway near the William Street exit in Cheektowaga as Brenden C. Ballacchino, 26, of Orchard Park.Ballacchino man was killed at...
View ArticleMan gets 21 years in prison for killing girlfriend’s son
Even Justin Crouse’s defense attorney agreed that he lacked remorse for killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in March.So it was perhaps no surprise that Crouse was sentenced Friday morning to 21...
View ArticleLackawanna man gets 15 months for food stamp fraud
A Lackawanna man convicted of food stamp fraud was sentenced to 15 months in prison Friday by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.Riyadh Almadrahi, 35, also was ordered to pay $143,700 in...
View ArticlePrison for electronics store burglar; co-defendant seeks drug treatment
LOCKPORT – Jamarius D. Scott, 21, of Linwood Avenue, Niagara Falls, was sentenced to one to three years in prison Friday for his role in a smash-and-grab burglary at an electronics store in the Falls....
View ArticleThree-time drug felon headed back to prison
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to his third drug felony on Friday was sent to the state prison system’s secure treatment facility, which has failed to break him of...
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