New York City woman arrested in shoplifting case
A 21-year-old local college student from New York City was arrested for shoplifting at the Tops Supermarket at 2101 Elmwood Avenue about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday and then arrested again on a criminal...
View ArticleThree arrested and large amount of marijuana seized
Buffalo Police enlisted the help of their K-9 corps and arrested three men, seized a large amount of marijuana, cash, and drug paraphernalia including packaging material about 8 p.m. Monday in a house...
View ArticleBuffalo lawyer spared more jail time for tax conviction
Lisa M. Yaeger, 50, a politically-active Buffalo private lawyer, was spared additional jail time on her misdemeanor conviction for submitting false documents to the Internal Revenue Service and...
View ArticleTwo Buffalo men face North Tonawanda drug charges
LOCKPORT – Two Buffalo men appeared Thursday in State Supreme Court to answer drug charges filed after separate arrests last year in North Tonawanda.Daniel R. Hill, 34, of Texas Avenue, pleaded guilty...
View ArticleMan who robbed grandmother at knifepoint pleads guilty
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court to robbing his grandmother at knifepoint June 15.Christopher L. Ford, 32, of 19th Street, admitted to a reduced charge of...
View ArticleTwo arrested for break-in at Janet Street house
A 30-year-old Lafayette Avenue man and a 23-year-old Minnesota Avenue woman were arrested on burglary and other charges after allegedly smashing their way into the hallway of a Janet Street house...
View ArticleLewiston couple injured in crash on Route 31
LEWISTON – A man and his wife are both in stable condition in Erie County Medical Center after their car was involved in a head-on crash with a pickup truck at about 10:30 a.m. today on Saunders...
View ArticleAggravated DWI arrest made on Grand Island
A complaint about a reckless driver on Grand Island led to the arrest of a 65-year-old town resident, according to Erie County sheriff’s deputies.The report about someone driving recklessly on...
View ArticleMonkey business leads to arrest of Java couple
WARSAW – A Wyoming County couple face several charges following the seizure of a young Grivet monkey, parts of a deceased red tail hawk and 11 small marijuana plants from their Town of Java...
View ArticleJamestown woman dies in apartment fire
JAMESTOWN – A 25-year-old woman died Wednesday after an unattended cooking fire engulfed the kitchen of a four unit apartment building at 105 Stowe Street in heavy smoke.Jamestown firefighters,...
View ArticleStudent charged in Niagara County bomb threats
NIAGARA FALLS – A 15-year-old Niagara Falls boy who is a student at Niagara Falls High School was charged with falsely reporting an incident Wednesday for allegedly making bomb threats to Niagara...
View ArticleClosed restaurant damaged in a copper theft
WHEATFIELD – The owner of the former Dad’s Restaurant at 2259 Niagara Falls Boulevard reported to Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that several feet of copper pipe were removed from the building. He...
View ArticleWheatfield man faces drunken driving charges following a crash into a snow...
WHEATFIELD – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies found skid marks, a damaged mail box and a Dodge Avenger off the road in a snow bank at 4:45 a.m. Monday at 6941 Walmore Road. The driver was allegedly...
View ArticleEmployee is suspected of stealing cash and products from a Wheatfield vapors...
WHEATFIELD – The owner of Exotic Vapors at 2314 Niagara Falls Boulevard contacted the Niagara County Sheriff Department after she suspected a store clerk had been helping himself to cash from the...
View ArticleDriver charged with DWI and 13 infractions
WARSAW – A 26-year-old Franklinville man was arrested for drunken driving in the Town of Arcade early Sunday, the Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday.Corey M. Kanner was arrested on...
View ArticleYorkshire man jailed after arrest for hammer threat
LITTLE VALLEY – The arrest and jailing of a 36-year-old Town of Yorkshire man was reported Wednesday by State Police. David L. Dietrich Jr. was taken into custody after allegedly threatening his...
View ArticleYorkshire snowmobiler charged in crash
LITTLE VALLEY – The arrest of a 24-year-old Town of Yorkshire man for drunken driving on a snowmobile that crashed in a field off Route 16 in the Town of Machias on Jan. 23, suffering injuries, was...
View ArticleFour arrested in stolen check case
LITTLE VALLEY – The arrest of three men and a woman on stolen check charges following a three-week investigation was announced Wednesday by State Police. The investigation began when a woman living in...
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty in gun-menacing case
A high-speed police chase that ended when the defendant in a gun-menacing case said he ran out of gas resulted in a guilty plea Tuesday.Andre Smith, 28, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to second-degree...
View ArticleOrchard Park couple sentenced for evading $1.2 million in taxes
An Orchard Park man was sentenced Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to a year in prison for tax evasion amounting to more than $1.2 millionHis wife, who was convicted of aiding...
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