Lockport man avoids jail for DWI; Falls man pleads guilty
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man who pleaded guilty to a felony count of driving while intoxicated was sentenced Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas to five years’ probation and a $1,000...
View ArticleMarijuana dealer sent to prison on gun charge
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, who told a probation officer in a presentencing report that he had been selling marijuana and acquired an illegal handgun for protection, was sentenced Wednesday to...
View ArticleInglima to be sentenced on sex charge in absentia
LOCKPORT – Former Buffalo and Lewiston restaurateur Filippo Inglima is to be sentenced Feb. 19 to a year in jail for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl in 2004, but he won’t be in Niagara County...
View ArticleBurglar on probation admits to stealing credit card
LOCKPORT – A Porter man, who has been on probation since June for a burglary, pleaded guilty Wednesday in State Supreme Court to stealing a woman’s credit card July 26 and making $359.81 worth of...
View ArticleMan on probation admits home invasion
A Youngstown man on probation on a 2011 attempted robbery conviction in Niagara County has pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary in a West Seneca home invasion.Jason Kester, 31, admitted last week...
View ArticleNorth Buffalo man pleads guilty in bank robbery
A North Buffalo man who robbed an Amherst bank of nearly $4,000 after threatening to blow it up if the teller didn’t give him the money has pleaded guilty to third-degree robbery.Todd Evchich, 43, of...
View ArticleBuffalo man faces retrial in stabbing
A Buffalo man faces a retrial May 12 in Erie County Court on one count of first-degree assault in the stabbing of his mother’s boyfriend during an argument last year.Judge Thomas P. Franczyk on...
View ArticleMan struck by motor vehicle late Tuesday remains in critical condition.
A 59-year-old Buffalo man was listed in critical condition Wednesday with injuries suffered when he apparently stepped in front of a motor vehicle at about 5 p.m. Tuesday on LaSalle Avenue.The man,...
View ArticleLockport man admits molesting boy, 13
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man admitted Wednesday in Niagara County Court that he drove a 13-year-old boy from Buffalo to Lockport on July 14 or 15 and had sexual contact with him.Dwight A. Lester, 40, of...
View ArticleContractor testifies about stabbing in union case
A few days before Christmas of 2002, Timothy Such was drinking at Kettle’s bar in Orchard Park when he and Michael J. Caggiano got into it.The two men had crossed paths before, but this time the...
View ArticleNo arrests yet in robbery that prompted lockdown
Amherst police today said they continue to search for three young men who attempted to rob a young man visiting an off-campus housing facility near the University at Buffalo’s North Campus late...
View ArticleMan with Parkinson’s gets probation for crash that killed 2 other...
LOCKPORT – Frederick J. Lederhouse, the man with Parkinson’s disease who killed two other drivers in a March 27 wreck in Wilson, was sentenced Wednesday to five years on probation and fines and fees...
View ArticleWoman clubs male neighbor on head with lamp
A 52-year-old Dutton Avenue woman was arrested early Wednesday afternoon for allegedly clubbing a 51-year-old male neighbor on the head with a lamp during an argument. Gwendolyn Vance was charged with...
View ArticleMan is robbed at gunpoint in the Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 20-year-old man said a man in a purple Jeep pulled up next to him as he was walking along 27th Street at Orleans Avenue and the driver pulled out a gun, just after midnight on...
View ArticleState Police chief not sure when ammo background checks will be ready under...
ALBANY– The head of the State Police said Wednesday he has no idea when ammunition background checks, a key component of the state’s SAFE Act, will begin across the state.State Police Superintendent...
View ArticleA man charged with drug possession after he flees from the scene and then...
NIAGARA FALLS – Police in a marked car pulled over a vehicle with a headlight out at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 1800 block of 18th Street. Police said the driver pulled over, but then fled on...
View ArticleOne dunkirk armed robbery suspect arrested and an accomplice is sought
DUNKIRK – A 24-year-old Dunkirk man was arrested early Wednesday afternoon on armed robbery charges linked to a Jan. 23 stickup at the Alma Latina Mex Restaurant on Cliffstar Drive.A second Dunkirk...
View ArticlePolice looking for hit and run ATV driver who hit a staircase at a Wilson...
WILSON – The owner of the Woodcock Brewery said two male customers left the parking lot on an all terrain vehicle this past weekend and for an unknown reason the driver struck the staircase in front...
View ArticleInjured hiker rescued at Letchworth State Park
CASTILE – An injured hiker who fell into the Genesee River Gorge at Letchworth State Park was rescued late Wednesday afternoon by members of the State Park Police Rope Rescue Team.The name of the...
View ArticleFire crews battle blaze in house on Best Street
Buffalo Fire Department crews were fighting a fire late Wednesday in a two-story house at 543 Best Street.The first call of the fire was made at 10:08 p.m. and firefighters still were at the scene as...
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