Alleged shoplifter accused of having marijuana
A 37-year-old Connecticut Street woman was charged with marijuana possession during her search by officers at the Erie County Holding Center shortly after her arrest for allegedly stealing goods from...
View ArticleThree arrested in Jamestown for cocaine sales
JAMESTOWN – Two men from Pennsylvania and a Jamestown woman were arrested late Thursday afternoon by the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task force and other agencies for alleged cocaine trafficking in...
View ArticleDepew man arrested for Leandra’s law DWI
A 30-year-old Depew man with two children, aged five and nine, in his car was arrested by Erie County sheriff’s deputies on Main Street at Sandridge Road in Alden about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday and charged...
View ArticleNewfane man sentenced for felony DWI
LOCKPORT – A Newfane man, who has been in Lockport drug court since pleading guilty Nov. 22 to felony driving while intoxicated, was placed on five years’ probation Thursday and assessed $1,520 in...
View Article11-time drunken driver arraigned in Niagara County Court
LOCKPORT – An East Amherst man who has been arrested on alcohol-related driving charges 11 times pleaded not guilty to the latest charge Thursday in Niagara County Court.Curt W. Stumm, 62, of...
View ArticleGunman given chance to earn probation
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas placed a Niagara Falls man on interim probation Thursday for throwing a stolen pistol away while running from Falls police June 16.“Whether or not...
View ArticleFalls man charged with two Leandra’s Law violations
LOCKPORT – A 14-count indictment was unsealed in Niagara County Court Thursday against a Niagara Falls woman who was arrested on drunken driving charges twice last year – both times when one of her...
View ArticlePlea offered in fatal Tuscarora Reservation wreck
LOCKPORT – A Yankton, S.D., man who allegedly crashed a vehicle on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation Sept. 8, killing his passenger and seriously injuring the other driver, was given two weeks to mull...
View ArticleDNA on sweatshirt leads to robbery plea
LOCKPORT – A man who lost his sweatshirt in a struggle with an employee at a store he tried to rob pleaded guilty Thursday in Niagara County Court, after a DNA test matched him with the shirt.Jacob...
View ArticleFalls man faces gun-and-drug indictment
LOCKPORT – Frank D. Murphy, 29, of Walnut Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded not guilty in Niagara County Court Thursday to gun and drug charges incurred after a July 23 traffic stop in the Falls.Murphy...
View ArticleAfter-school worker charged in school gun scare
A well-known community activist who works with an after-school program at the city’s School 97 Harvey Austin Elementary School was found carrying a handgun at the school Thursday evening, ending a...
View ArticleStudent gets probation in UB dorm fire
A University at Buffalo student who dropped a small butane torch that he was using to light marijuana in his North Campus dorm room last year, setting himself on fire and causing $80,000 damage, was...
View ArticleMan gets two years in jail for driving stolen tow truck while drunk
A police chase through the city’s Elmwood-Forest area last summer led to a jail sentence Friday for a Town of Tonawanda man who was driving drunk in a stolen tow truck with its boom down and swinging...
View ArticleBid to thaw pipes leads to house fire
Buffalo firefighters once again were called out Friday to battle a blaze ignited when someone used the wrong kind of heat to thaw frozen water pipes.A fire in a two-story wood-frame home at 215...
View ArticleSearch under way for Hamburg bank robber
The hunt continued early this evening for a white female who robbed the First Niagara Bank branch at 4939 Lake Shore Road in Hamburg at about 4:09 p.m. today. The Erie County Sheriff’s Air One...
View ArticleEmotions run high as killer is resentenced
LOCKPORT – As he had promised, State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. on Friday imposed the minimum sentence for murder, 15 years to life in prison, on a Niagara Falls man who stabbed his...
View ArticleOne succeeds, one fails in court-supervised drug treatment
LOCKPORT – Success and failure in the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment were on display Friday in Niagara County Court.County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas hailed Melinda A....
View ArticleFalls man denies heroin-dealing charges
LOCKPORT – A man who allegedly sold heroin twice in Niagara Falls in December pleaded not guilty to a four-count indictment Friday in Niagara County Court.James Dolson, 48, of Cleveland Avenue in the...
View ArticleEmotions run high as killer is resentenced
LOCKPORT – As he had promised, State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. on Friday imposed the minimum sentence for murder, 15 years to life in prison, on a Niagara Falls man who stabbed his...
View ArticleTwo men sent to jail for Cheektowaga shoplifting incidents
Two Buffalo men were given jail sentences by Cheektowaga Town Justice Paul S. Piotrowski on their separate convictions for shoplifting incidents at the Walden Galleria and at the Thruway Plaza on Jan....
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