Two men caught in the act of selling stolen metal
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls police arrested two men accused of stealing scrap metal from a Fairfield Drive electrical shop on Wednesday.Vincent J. Lewis, 30, of South Avenue and Timothy J. Ellison...
View ArticleMotel 6 in Amherst robbed at gunpoint
A Maple Road motel was held up by masked man who displayed a handgun as he entered, Amherst police reported Thursday.The robbery occurred at about 8 p.m. Wednesday at Motel 6, police said. After...
View ArticleFour arrested in olean crack cocaine raid on flat
OLEAN – Two Buffalo men and two Olean women are taken into custody during a raid on a crack cocaine house on Third Avenue here by agents of the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force early today....
View ArticleNT man who sent threatening text messages sentenced to jail
A North Tonawanda man who texted threatening messages to a former girlfriend was sentenced this week in Cheektowaga Town Court to 45 days in jail.Justin T. Kloch, 26, of Roberts Drive, who had pleaded...
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty to breaking into cars in Allentown
A Buffalo man faces up to four years in prison for breaking into two cars in Allentown last spring.Gerald Mundell, 25, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and single...
View ArticleMaximum DWI sentence imposed on man who served 24 years for murder
LOCKPORT – A Wilson man who served 24 years in state prison for felony murder was given the maximum sentence for felony driving while intoxicated – 1 1/3 to four years – Thursday by Niagara County...
View ArticleParolee nabbed at bus terminal
Acting on a tip, two Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police officers nabbed a Jamestown parolee Thursday morning in Buffalo’ downtown bus terminal just before he and his girlfriend were...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets probation for role in two business burglaries
One of three men who admitted breaking into two businesses – including a Buffalo scrap metal company where prosecutors say more than $90,000 was taken from a safe – was sentenced Thursday to five...
View Article$100 million suit claims county mishandled Wienckowski case
The family of the late Amanda L. Wienckowski on Thursday filed a $100 million fraud suit against Erie County officials, claiming the investigation into her death was handled improperly.The suit names...
View ArticleStabbing victim urged police to stay away, tapes show
LOCKPORT – Ralph D. Stone Jr. called 911 but urged police not to come to the North Tonawanda apartment where he was stabbed to death minutes later, according to recorded phone calls played Thursday in...
View ArticleEast Amherst Street vacant house destroyed in fire
An unoccupied house at 736 East Amherst Street was destroyed Thursday night in a three-alarm fire, and two adjacent homes suffered minor damage. The Red Cross was caled to assist a woman and her two...
View ArticlePolice union wants part of Attica report sealed
ALBANY – The union representing state troopers went to court Friday to ask a state judge to block release of secret documents that might shed more light into the state’s handling of the Attica prison...
View ArticleTeen gets lengthy prison term in toddler's death
A Springville teenager who fatally beat his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son told a judge Friday that he did not intend to kill the toddler.“I never wanted to hurt Austin. I never wanted Austin to die,”...
View ArticleBradford woman gets year in prison for buying guns for felon
A Bradford, Pa. woman was sentenced Friday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to a year in prison for a firearms conviction.Jacqueline Runyan, 48, was arrested in September of 2012 along...
View ArticleWoman who threatened Hanover assessor due in county court
SILVER CREEK – The case of Jeanne Polisoto, 67, of Forestville who has been charged with threatening the Hanover Town Assessor’s Office with a bomb, has been moved to Chautauqua County Court and is...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in child porn case
LOCKPORT – Brent J. Manz, who downloaded child pornography and indulged in illicit online chats with a police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, pleaded guilty to a felony and two misdemeanors...
View ArticleLockport teen draws four years in prison for armed robbery
LOCKPORT – A Town of Lockport teenager who was accused in a presentencing report of being involved with gangs, including the Crips, was denied youthful offender status Friday and sentenced to four...
View ArticleFalls men plead not guilty to drug indictments
LOCKPORT – Two Niagara Falls men pleaded not guilty to separate drug indictments Friday in Niagara County Court.Lazarus R. Hayes, 24, of Pierce Avenue, denied charges of third-degree criminal sale and...
View ArticleTwo-time state inmate pleads guilty to injuring parole officer
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who injured a parole officer while resisting arrest Sept. 29 may be headed back to prison.Jimmy R. Carpenter, 40, of 22nd Street, pleaded guilty Friday in Niagara County...
View ArticleJudge orders state prison for meth maker
LOCKPORT – James O. White, one of several local men arrested in 2013 on methamphetamine charges, was sentenced Friday by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III to two years in prison.White, 21, of...
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