10th Street gang member gets 78 months in prison
A member of the 10th Street Gang was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to 78 months in prison.Melvin Medina, 29, of Buffalo, had previously pleaded guilty to a racketeering...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda holdup believed to be latest in month-long spree
Police fear that armed robbers who have been staging holdups in Erie and Niagara counties for the past month have become bolder.The Able Insurance Agency on Erie Avenue in North Tonawanda was held up...
View ArticleThe former manager of a Cheektowaga manufacturing firm has admitted stealing $160,000 worth of metal parts from his employer last year and selling them to local scrap metal dealers.Albert Manns Jr.,...
View ArticleState prison for man judge calls “a thief and a drug user”
LOCKPORT – Jonathan M. Grant, who used five to 10 bags of heroin a day before his arrest on charges of stealing $6,290 from his step-parents and another woman, was sentenced to the state prison...
View ArticleVeterans court helps Lockport man win reduced plea
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man who worked with Buffalo veterans court for more than two years on his problems with alcohol abuse was allowed to cancel his felony assault plea Wednesday.Instead, Arnold M....
View ArticleJudge gives Lockport woman a chance to avoid state prison
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas gave a Lockport woman a chance Wednesday to avoid state prison on a cocaine possession charge.She placed Dawn L. Johnson, 59, of Waterman Street, on...
View ArticleFormer manager admits stealing $160,000 worth of metal parts from employer
The former manager of a Cheektowaga manufacturing firm has admitted stealing $160,000 worth of metal parts from his employer last year and selling them to local scrap metal dealers.Albert Manns Jr.,...
View ArticleWeather-related crashes in Niagara County
Wind and snow caused some whiteout conditions in Niagara County today with cars going off the road and into ditches or mailboxes.In Cambria two people were injured in a one car rollover at 9:30 a.m....
View ArticleSteel doors are damaged in attempted break-in at Wilson Lakeside Market
WILSON – Double steel doors were found with pry marks and damage to the door and door frame, in what appeared to be an attempted break-in just after 3 a.m. Wednesday at the Wilson Lakeside Market at...
View ArticleLockport man accused of harassing Mighty Taco employees
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man was charged after he allegedly used racial slurs and obscenties at a drive-through window and then went inside and spit in an employee’s face at 6:20 p.m. Tuesday in the...
View ArticleDaylight North Tonawanda holdup believed to be latest in monthlong spree
Police fear that armed robbers who have been staging holdups in Erie and Niagara counties for the past month have become bolder.The Able Insurance Agency on Erie Avenue in North Tonawanda was held up...
View ArticleFrewsburg man charged with illegal eavesdropping
MAYVILLE – The arrest of a 62-year-old Frewsburg man on felony charges of unlawful surveillance and eavesdropping was announced today by State Police in Jamestown.Carl A. Johnson Sr. was taken into...
View ArticleCheektowaga bank robber sought by police
The identity of the white male in his mid-20s who robbed the citizens Bank at 1722 Walden Avenue early Saturday afternoon, is being sought by Cheektowaga police. The bandit, who entered about 12:55...
View ArticleTwo charged with stealing pickup truck
Two Weimer Street men were arrested early today while allegedly trying to drive away from their house in a red pickup truck they allegedly stole. Jason Wilkinson, 39, and John LaTour, 44, were charged...
View ArticlePsychiatric exam OK'd in baby-shaking case
LOCKPORT – The attorney for Christopher T. Fuller Jr., a Lockport man charged with violently shaking his 5-month-old son, was granted a psychiatric examination Wednesday to see if Fuller is mentally...
View ArticleFire in vacant house also damages house next door
Fire in a vacant 1 1/2-story wooden house at 216 Baitz Avenue tonight caused $20,000 damage to that structure and $5,000 to the occupied building next door at 214 Baitz. The fire which began on the...
View Article12-year-old Canadian boy drives car over Lewiston Bridge
LEWISTON – U.S. Border Patrol officials said they stopped a 12-year-old boy from St. Catharines, Ont., after he drove his grandmother’s car Tuesday to the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge en route to the...
View ArticleElderly woman found dead outside Lancaster care facility
An elderly resident of Greenfields was found dead shortly before noon Wednesday, outside the extended care facility on Broadway in Lancaster, police reported Thursday,The woman’s frozen body was found...
View ArticleHamburg man charged in beer bottle attack
A 27-year-old man has been charged with a felony count of assault stemming from an altercation earlier this month in an Orchard Park bar, police reported today.Shawn Gretzler of Hamburg was arrested...
View ArticleGrand Island school bus struck, no injuries
A car struck the back of a stopped school bus at East River Road and Edgewater Drive in Grand Island this morning, Grand Island Fire Company officials said.There were 10 children from Huth Road...
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