Gowanda man, son face drug charges linked to triple stabbing
A 55-year-old Gowanda man and his 19-year-old son were sent to the Cattaraugus County Jail in Little Valley following their arrest Thursday night in Gowanda on multiple felony counts of criminal...
View ArticleNorth Carolina man rejects plea offer in Falls homicide
LOCKPORT – Richard H. Moore, the North Carolina man accused of shooting a friend of his girlfriend to death in Niagara Falls earlier this year, rejected a plea offer Friday.Assistant Public Defender...
View ArticleWoman robber his First Niagara branch on Elmwood
Buffalo police are looking for a woman who robbed the First Niagara Bank branch at 529 Elmwood Ave. at about 3:30 p.m. Friday.She was described as black, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing about 105...
View ArticleCheektowaga woman arrested for DWI in Orchard Park
A 43-year-old Cheektowaga woman was charged with driving while intoxicated at about 9 a.m. Thursday after she was found disoriented at the wheel of a car with the engine still running in the parking...
View ArticleState police plan crackdown on drunken driving over Super Bowl weekend
State police in Western New York will be cracking down on drunken and distracted driving over the Super Bowl weekend, according to Major Michael Cerreto. “Everyone knows that drinking and driving can...
View ArticleHamburg man arrested for assault at Orchard Park bar
A 27-year-old Hamburg man was arrested this week on a second-degree assault charged for allegedly hitting another man over the head with a beer bottle during an altercation in O’Neil’s Stadium Inn on...
View ArticleSnowmobiler charged after crash into ice-fishing shanty
CHAUTAUQUA – A 31-year-old Ohio woman was arrested overnight for snowmobiling while intoxicated after she crashed into an ice fishing shanty, narrowly missing the three occupants, on Chautauqua Lake,...
View ArticleDayton mother charged with exposing daughter to pot growing
DAYTON – A Cattaraugus County mother is charged with exposing her 9-year-old daughter to a marijuana growing operation in their home, according to the Sheriff’s Office.Roslyn A. Lesniak, 53, of...
View ArticleS. Dakota man arrested for DWI after hit-and-run crash in Dunkirk
DUNKIRK – A South Dakota man was arrested for driving while intoxicated following a hit-and-run accident early today, according to state police from the Fredonia barracks.Troopers say John Spray, 33,...
View ArticleOne teen stabbed, another pepper sprayed on Metro train
One young woman was stabbed in the abdomen and another was pepper-sprayed in the face Friday night on a Metro rail train after one group of teens followed another group of teens from a basketball game...
View ArticleBuffalo police find missing 9-year-old
Buffalo police found a 9-year-old boy who had been reported missing since Friday evening this afternoon, shortly after police put out a plea to the public to help find him.The boy was located at a...
View ArticlePolice say man pointed gun inside restaurant
Buffalo police arrested a male for waving a gun inside a University District restaurant.The incident happened shortly after 3 a.m. on Friday inside Jim’s Steakout, 3094 Main St., according to police...
View ArticleBan on texting while driving called a success
News that the number texting-while-driving tickets went up 82 percent in the past year for a 2013 statewide total of 55,000 was a gratifying milestone for the mother of a young man who died while...
View ArticleMan held at gunpoint punched and robbed
A man told Buffalo police he was punched and robbed over the weekend while inside a Walden Avenue shop.Two people entered the shop at 740 Walden Ave. at about 5:30 p.m. on Friday, according to police...
View ArticleDWI suspect found asleep in rest area closet
OLEAN – Footprints in the snow led State Police to a suspected drunken driver, who was found sleeping in a closet at a rest area, Troopers reported Sunday.After finding a car parked in the median of...
View ArticleFredonia man charged with DWI, marijuana possession
PORTLAND – State troopers arrested a Fredonia man and charged him with drunken driving and marijuana possession Sunday morning.Troopers charged Mark Snyder, 20, with aggravated driving while...
View ArticleGrand Island man charged with DWI
A man whose vehicle went off the road on Grand Island was charged with driving while intoxicated, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported Sunday.A deputy sent to West River Road to investigate a...
View ArticleSpringville motorist charged with DWI
The driver of a vehicle that went off the road at a Springville intersection was charged early Sunday with driving while intoxicated, according to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.Deputies responded...
View ArticleDelta Sonic burglarized
The North Buffalo Delta Sonic at 2636 Delaware Ave. was burglarized early Sunday after a thief broke into the business’s inventory room.Buffalo Police reported that at 3:47 a.m., someone threw a rock...
View ArticleMan injured trying to prevent car from fleeing
A car accident victim was injured after he got out of his car and tried to prevent the other car from leaving the scene of an accident on the Scajaquada Expressway at the Elmwood Avenue exit...
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