Three teens get jail time for beating man in Shoshone Park
An attack on a 66-year-old man who tried to break up a fight between two Bennett High School girls last May in Shoshone Park in North Buffalo led to jail time Tuesday for three of the nine Buffalo...
View ArticleCharged with marijuana in a car blocking a driveway
A 25-year-old Olcott Street man was arrested on a marijuana charge after police spotted him sitting in a car that was idling and blocking access to a driveway in the 1300 block of East Delavan Avenue...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to beating of Lockport HS athletic director, monitor
LOCKPORT – Jesse F. James, 18, of Caledonia Street, Lockport, accepted a preindictment plea offer Wednesday in the Dec. 3 attack on the Lockport High School athletic director and a monitor during a...
View ArticleHit-run injury incident leads to charges against man with seven DWI...
A Buffalo man with seven drunken-driving convictions has been charged again with driving while intoxicated, following a hit-and-run incident that left a city motorist with minor injuries late Tuesday...
View ArticleMother-and-son drug dealers avoid prison
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman and her son each were placed on five years’ probation Wednesday for dealing drugs in the Falls in 2012.Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas imposed the sentences...
View ArticleFalls burglar claims hydrocodone addiction, is sentenced to treatment
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls burglar was assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment Wednesday after asserting that his addiction to the painkiller hydrocodone was...
View ArticleThird drug imprisonment ordered for Falls man
LOCKPORT – Charles E. Griffith will be heading to state prison on felony drug charges for the third time in the past decade after his sentencing Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleNiagara Falls pleads guilty in heroin case
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty to a felony charge of heroin possession Wednesday.State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. scheduled sentencing March 12 for Jose D. Garcia, 54,...
View ArticleSecond man arraigned in armed robbery of three in Falls
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of robbing and assaulting three men on Sept. 12.Michael Maye, 29, of Whitney Avenue, denied three counts each of third-degree...
View ArticleMan arrested for assaulting a neighbor
A 28-year-old Page Street man was arrested late Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a pregnant neighbor during an argument. Paul Schanley was charged with third-degree assault, harassment and endangering...
View ArticleTwo arrested in store theft
A 48-year-old Amherst street woman and a 20-year-old Dearborn Street man were arrested Tuesday evening for allegedly having stolen two remote control toy helicopters from a convenience store in the...
View ArticleTwo arrested for assault on a Bailey Avenue man two months ago
The felony assault arrests of a 37-year-old William Street man and a 28-year-old Como Park Boulevard man for allegedly mauling a Bailey Avenue man in the victim’s home two months ago was reported...
View ArticleDewey Avenue man charged with punching woman in the face
A 53-year-old Dewey Avenue man was arrested late Tuesday for allegedly punching a neighbor woman in the face during an argument outside his home. Terrence Lighten was charged with third-degree assault...
View ArticleLyndonville man killed in Orleans County crash
YATES – A 24-year-old Lyndonville man was pronounced dead Wednesday night at Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital, hours after he lost control of his car traveling west on East Yates Center Road in...
View ArticleNiagara Falls police investigate a shooting incident on Whitney Avenue
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls police were dealing with a shooting incident Wednesday night in the 1500 block of Whitney Avenue. Police were alerted to the incident just after 9 p.m. and a male victim...
View ArticleOne man arrested and a second sought in a Bailey Avenue liquor store robbery
A 39-year-old Gatchell Street man was arrested on a second-degree robbery charge and a second male suspect is being sought for the robbery of a liquor store in the 1200 block of Bailey Avenue about 6...
View Article3 teens get jail time for beating man in Shoshone Park
An attack on a 66-year-old man who tried to break up a fight between two Bennett High School girls last May in Shoshone Park in North Buffalo led to jail time Tuesday for three of the nine Buffalo...
View ArticleAuthorities nab suspect behind bank robbery ring
An eight-month bank robbery spree ended Wednesday with the arrest of a man believed to be behind more than 25 holdups from Niagara Falls to Lackawanna.Michael Mitchell, 21, the man investigators...
View ArticleBuffalo man with 7 DWIs faces 8th – an injury hit-and-run
A Buffalo man with seven drunken-driving convictions has been charged again with driving while intoxicated, following a hit-and-run incident that left a city motorist with minor injuries late Tuesday...
View ArticleBuffalo man convicted of weapon possession
A Buffalo man who prosecutors said repeatedly threatened to kill his estranged wife and their seven children has been convicted of weapon possession, despite his wife’s testimony that the gun was...
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