Woman, 2 teens charged with trying to break into cars
A Buffalo woman and two teenage girls were arrested Tuesday night, after a brief car chase following their apparent efforts to break into parked cars on Woodward Avenue, near West Oakwood Avenue,...
View ArticleDunkirk drug trafficking suspect arrested in Buffalo
An accused Chautauqua County drug trafficker was arrested in Buffalo Wednesday, Chautauqua County sheriff’s and Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force officials announced.Brenda Carter-Ducett, 50, was...
View ArticleLockport man charged in ‘shaken baby’ case
LOCKPORT – A 26-year-old man charged in a suspected case of “shaken baby syndrome” was to appear today in Lockport City Court, according to State Police.Kenneth S. Lathrop Jr., of Ruhlman Road, was...
View ArticleMan who looted elderly friend’s estate avoids prison
LOCKPORT – Kenneth C. Heitzenrater of Somerset, who stole more than $600,000 from a 90-year-old man, forcing him into assisted living, was placed on five years’ probation today.Niagara County Judge...
View ArticleMotorcyclist pleads guilty in bike path pedestrian deaths
The drunken motorcyclist who plowed into a group of pedestrians on an Amherst bike path Nov. 11, killing two women and injuring a man, pleaded guilty Thursday to vehicular manslaughter and assault...
View ArticleSex offender admits to more charges involving children
A City of Tonawanda man already behind bars as a predatory sex offender has admitted to more sex crimes involving children.Donald C. Filer, 52, pleaded guilty this week to two counts of predatory...
View ArticleSouth Buffalo teacher convicted of rape violates parole
A warrant was issued Thursday for a former South Buffalo teacher who served prison time for raping a teenage student several years ago.Cara L. Dickey, 34, whose last known address was on Bailey Avenue...
View ArticlePolice seek public’s help to solve two recent robberies
Help from the public is being sought in solving two recent robberies in the Northeast District with police releasing videos and photographs of the robbers.On Dec. 26, two men armed with a handgun...
View ArticleBuffalo man accused of trying to entice child for sex
A Buffalo man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for trying to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced Thursday.According to the indictment,...
View ArticleNT mom pleads guilty to impaired driving with 4 kids in car
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda mother of four admitted Thursday in Niagara County Court that she drove under the influence of alcohol in that city March 2, while all four of her children were in the...
View ArticleDrug treatment failure leads to prison term for Falls man
LOCKPORT – Lester Lamar Jr. paid the price Thursday for washing out of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment: five years in state prison and three years of post-release...
View ArticleGroup home placement eyed for sex offender
LOCKPORT – A developmentally disabled man, who had sex with a 15-year-old girl several times last year, was placed on 10 years’ probation Thursday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who said...
View ArticleHertel Avenue man pleads guilty in NT crack case
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man admitted in Niagara County Court Thursday that he dealt crack cocaine in North Tonawanda last summer.Jamar M. Harris, 24, of Hertel Avenue, pleaded guilty to fifth-degree...
View ArticleKloch forces end to North Tonawanda storekeeper’s suit against city
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. Thursday forced convenience store owner Muwafek S. “Moe” Rizek to sign a document which apparently voids his civil rights lawsuit against...
View ArticleTraffic stop turns troublesome for Jamestown man
POMFRET – A Jamestown man was stopped just before 6 a.m. Thursday for a traffic violation and found to be allegedly driving without a license and with drugs, State Police in Fredonia reported.Francis...
View ArticleSecond man pleads guilty in Falls shooting
LOCKPORT – Marlyn M. Rubin has become the second man to plead guilty in connection with the near-fatal shooting of a Niagara Falls teenager, but the story he told Thursday in Niagara County Court...
View ArticleRookie, veteran K-9 dogs have good week
A rookie police dog and a more-seasoned four-legged member of the Buffalo Police Department’s K-9 Unit are basking in praise for tracking down burglary suspects in two separate incidents this week.In...
View ArticleDelivery truck struck by gunfire on I-86
MINA – A delivery van was struck by suspected gunfire Thursday morning, Chautauqua County sheriff’s officials reported.Deputies were investigating a 9:15 a.m. report that involved a van traveling west...
View ArticleTwo Buffalo police officers injured in crash with taxicab
Two Buffalo police officers were treated for minor injuries at Erie County Medical Center Friday morning, after their patrol car was struck by a taxicab on the city’s West Side earlier in the morning,...
View ArticleEx-Norampac employee sentenced to prison for stealing from company
An Alden woman was sentenced Friday to one to three years in prison for embezzling from her employer, Norampac Industries Inc.The money Lynn Montgomery misappropriated and the company’s related costs...
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