Girl, 2, found wandering in middle of Genesee Street
Cheektowaga Police on Monday arrested Gabrielle Newland, 37, of Cheektowaga, and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child after her 2-year-old girl was found wandering in the middle of...
View ArticleFalls father and son indicted on cocaine charges
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County grand jury has indicted a Niagara Falls father and son on drug possession charges.Levester Rose Jr., 64, of Main Street, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Niagara County...
View ArticleProbation ordered for Falls man who sold painkillers
LOCKPORT – Nino V. Casale, 30, of West Market Street, Niagara Falls, was placed on five years’ probation Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas in a drug case.Casale pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleWyoming County drug arrest follows stop for speeding
WARSAW – Two men from Genesee and Wyoming counties were arrested on drug and other charges after Wyoming County sheriff’s deputies stopped their car on Sierk Road in the Town of Bennington just before...
View ArticleJail search finds a knife in woman’s underwear
LOCKPORT – A Lewiston woman was charged on a prison contraband complaint after a correction’s officer found a four-inch-long folding knife inside her underwear at 3:14 p.m. Tuesday.Carly G. McEvoy,...
View ArticleTourists report theft of jewelry and luggage
NIAGARA FALLS – A Forestville woman told police that while she was in the Seneca Niagara Casino someone smashed a window in her Jeep and took purses, luggage and a duffel bag that contained clothes,...
View ArticleGrand Island house fire causes $45,000 damage
An electrical short in a second-floor bedroom caused $45,000 damage to a house at 980 Stony Point Road near Broadway in Grand Island about 11 a.m. Wednesday, the Grand Island Fire Company reported....
View ArticleFalls taxi driver is robbed at gunpoint
NIAGARA FALLS – A driver for Blue-United Taxi said he was robbed at gunpoint after picking up a man at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Falls Street for a run to the airport. He told city...
View ArticleMarchant claimed self-defense at crime scene, cops say
LOCKPORT – Jennifer Marchant, charged with manslaughter in the Feb. 6 stabbing death of her live-in boyfriend in North Tonawanda, began her self-defense claim in their apartment while victim Ralph D....
View ArticleJudge refuses to change decision on future of zoo property
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III said Wednesday he sees no reason to alter his decision earlier this year that allowed the Oppenheim Zoological Society to turn over the site of...
View ArticleLockport man draws 20-year sentence for sexual assaults on girl, 7
LOCKPORT – With the victim and her mother looking on, Juan Rivera-Stupia III just shook his head Wednesday when Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas asked him why he had sex repeatedly with a...
View ArticleMan shot on Peckham Street is rushed to ECMC
An unidentified man who was shot in the 500 block of Peckham Street just before 9 p.m. tonight has been rushed to Erie County Medical Center.A Police Department spokesman said he had no immediate...
View ArticleDWI arrests include man charged with driving under influence of drugs
A man driving under the influence of drugs was among several unrelated DWI arrests made by Erie County sheriff’s deputies overnight.Dennis J. Stanek, 60, of Depew, was pulled over at about 12:30 a.m....
View ArticleGang member’s guilty plea could lead to lengthy prison sentence
A 10th Street Gang member admitted in federal court Thursday to taking part in a 2006 shooting that killed two innocent bystanders.Sam Thurmond, 25, became the fourth 10th Street member to admit some...
View ArticleCrash knocks down three poles, electrical wires on Shawnee Road
CAMBRIA – At least one person was injured after a vehicle hit a pole and brought down wires just after noon today in the 5100 block of Shawnee Road, between Upper Mountain and Human roads.The Niagara...
View ArticleLewiston man who torched three cars is imprisoned
LOCKPORT – A man who was drunk when he set fire to three parked vehicles in North Tonawanda was sentenced to a stint in the state prison system’s secure substance abuse facility Thursday by Niagara...
View ArticlePeckham street shooting victim still hospitalized
The 23-year-old man who was shot as he was walking in the 500 block of Peckham Street just before 9 p.m. Wednesday remained in serious condition Thursday in Erie County Medical Center.Police...
View ArticleNewfane teen found with cocaine and says he accidentally purchased it
NEWFANE – A 16-year-old boy was found in possession of cocaine after he was stopped on a traffic violation just before 2 a.m. Thursday in the 2100 block of Ewings Road.The Charlotteville Road teen was...
View ArticleInjuries are reported in a motorcycle crash in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A motorcyclist whose name is Harley Davidson Milstead was taken to a hospital for back and shoulder injuries after his Harley Davidson motorcycle struck two parked trucks and he was thrown...
View ArticleDecade of probation for Lockport man in child porn case
LOCKPORT – The about-to-be-divorced father of three daughters under age 4 was placed on probation for 10 years Thursday for viewing child pornography.Aaron M. Dean, 23, of Royal Parkway South,...
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