Lockport man suspected of making meth in his apartment
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Sheriff Deputy Raymond Needle said when he walked into a Walnut Street apartment on Saturday to serve a warrant, he recognized the smell and spotted many of the things used...
View ArticleTools and equipment stolen from truck in Falls driveway
NIAGARA FALLS – A 46-year-old man told police on Monday that more than $8,000 worth of tools and equipment that he had been storing in a pickup were stolen sometime over the weekend in the 400 block...
View ArticlePolice search for female suspect in Wheatfield armed robbery
WHEATFIELD – State police have requested help from the public in identifying a woman suspected in the armed robbery at 10:44 p.m. Friday at the Citgo Jolly Rogers, located at 2065 River Road.The...
View ArticleThieves hit Falls construction site
NIAGARA FALLS – A project superintendent at a work site in the 1500 block of Military Road said a $15,000 portable heating system, with a hitch attached, was stolen from the site sometime between...
View ArticleAkron funeral director charged with grand larceny after serving jail time...
An Akron funeral director has been charged with grand larceny, accused of pocketing more than $5,000 in prepaid funeral money that should have been deposited in a bank.But authorities say it’s not...
View ArticleLockport man admits to felony for violating restraining order
LOCKPORT – Marcus A. Walton, who was accused of violating an order of protection Feb. 7 by entering his former girlfriend’s apartment and damaging some of her clothes with bleach, pleaded guilty to a...
View ArticleSecond man admits to trying to rob Falls check-cashing store
LOCKPORT – A second man pleaded guilty Monday in connection with an attempt at an armed robbery Jan. 23 at a Niagara Falls check-cashing store.Marcus D. Hamilton Jr., 22, of North Avenue in the Falls,...
View ArticleJail for ex-McDonald’s manager in embezzlement case
LOCKPORT – The former assistant manager of the McDonald’s Restaurant in Wrights Corners, who failed to repay $17,820 he stole from the business, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail for violating...
View ArticleLockport crack dealer avoids jail
LOCKPORT – A man who pleaded guilty last year to selling crack cocaine in the City of Lockport twice in 2012 was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation.Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas had...
View ArticleTwo Lackawanna houses destroyed in fire
A late morning fire totally destroyed two 2 1/2 story frame houses Tuesday on Center Street in Lackawanna. A woman called the Lackawanna Fire Department about 9:54 a.m. and by the time fire crews...
View ArticleMonroe County man arrested for WNY bank robberies
The arrest of a Greece, New York, man for recent robberies of banks in Depew, Cheektowaga and the Rochester area, was announced late Tuesday. Joseph S. Cumbo, 34, of Red Hickory Street in the...
View ArticleTrial begins in rape, fatal stabbing of 13-year-old girl at house party
Lanasha Rollerson sneaked out of her house late one night last summer and went to a party on Hagen Street that didn’t end until early the next morning.When the 13-year-old girl’s mother got up the...
View ArticleCattaraugus County justice sends woman, 23, to prison in two cases
Bethany A. Jackson, 23, of Salamanca, was ordered Monday to serve a state prison term of 2ø years by Cattaraugus County Justice Ronald D. Ploetz for her conviction on attempted burglary and harassment...
View ArticleBad turn of car leads to cocaine arrest
A 37-year-old Johnson Park man was arrested Monday evening on felony drug charges after allegedly making an improper turn at Military Road and Hertel Avenue.Demitrius Williams was charged with...
View ArticleMongielo trial opens in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A retired Lockport police lieutenant testified Tuesday that David J. Mongielo was “looking for trouble” when he allegedly called police “Nazis” and used a cellphone to take video of them at...
View ArticleMan and dog die in South Buffalo house fire
A man and his dog died in a fire Tuesday night in a 1½-story wooden house at 65 Sirret St. in South Buffalo.Firefighters have not yet released the identity of the man because they are still trying to...
View ArticleDearborn fire causes $50,000 in damages
A fire that started in the rear first floor of an occupied home on the 200 block of Dearborn Avenue early this morning caused $50,000 in damages, fire officials said. No injuries in the blaze,...
View ArticleFire kills owner at Genesee Street auto-repair shop
The proprietor of a popular Genesee Street auto-repair shop died Friday afternoon from injuries sustained in a rapidly moving fire that broke out while he and an employee were fixing a car, according...
View ArticleHome owner, Hamburg at odds over sign protesting gun control
The Hamburg home owner whose sign protesting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his gun control legislation says that he is at war with town officials, but over free speech, not guns. “They started this war,...
View ArticlePolice, firefighters rescue 2 girls exploring grain elevator
Two 13-year-old girls who went exploring the old Concrete-Central grain elevator Thursday afternoon became disoriented and lost in the century-old structure as darkness set in and had to be rescued,...
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