Drug dealer, expecting release, gets 18 more months in prison
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man described by a Niagara County Drug Task Force officer as “a heavy drug dealer” was sentenced to an additional 18 months in state prison Tuesday.Kurtis R. Washington, 22, of...
View ArticleNiagara County pot grower criticizes law as he is jailed
LOCKPORT – A man who grew marijuana outside his former home in Porter last summer said Tuesday that he disagrees with the laws against the practice.“I think the laws need to be changed. Yes, I do,”...
View ArticleLeandra’s Law violator avoids jail time
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, who pleaded guilty to a felony violation of Leandra’s Law for driving drunk with children in his vehicle, was placed on five years’ probation Tuesday by State Supreme...
View ArticleNew Minority Bar Association officers host first meeting Wednesday
The Minority Bar Association of Western New York will hold its first monthly meeting with its newly-elected 2013 Executive Board at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Harter Secret & Emery law firm,...
View ArticleAmherst detectives seek vacuum cleaner thief, release video of crime
Amherst Police detectives are seeking public help in a man who walked out of the Sheridan Drive Walmart supercenter at about midnight Jan. 6 with a cart full of Dyson vacuum cleaners and other...
View ArticleBuffalo woman charged with crack pipe in city grocery
A Buffalo woman was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after Buffalo police came to the Mandella Market on East Ferry Street at noontime Tuesday and reported...
View ArticleJury acquits woman of vehicular manslaughter in Riverside death
An East Amherst woman who crashed into a guardrail and fatally struck a bicyclist in Riverside was acquitted Tuesday of vehicular manslaughter and drug- impaired driving.Jurors deliberated about an...
View ArticleEx-college student pleads guilty in 2010 burn case
A former University at Buffalo student, who badly burned a Hamburg teenager when he tried to set vodka on fire at an off-campus party in Fredonia nearly three years ago, has pleaded guilty to felony...
View ArticleNewfane burglar sent to drug treatment facility
LOCKPORT – Drug-addicted Newfane burglar Sasha N. Botting was ordered into an inpatient drug treatment facility by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. Tuesday, after she failed a drug...
View Article2 accept plea bargains in drug, gun possession case
LOCKPORT – Two Niagara Falls men accepted plea bargains this week in a drugs and guns case, while the court-appointed lawyer for a third defendant resigned, as his client reportedly left the...
View Article3-car crash stalls traffic on outbound Kensington
Traffic was backed up on the outbound Kensington Expressway this morning following a three-crash crash.No injuries were reported in the crash that occurred about 6:50 a.m. near the Bailey Street...
View ArticleMan killed in Lewiston crash
TUSCARORA RESERVATION – A 35-year-old Lewiston man was killed just before 6 a.m. today when his 1997 Ford four-door sedan went off the road and hit two trees in a front yard at a home on Mount Hope...
View ArticleMan avoids prison in copper caper
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man, already on probation for a burglary in Amherst, was placed on five years’ probation Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas for the theft of copper from...
View ArticleFalls man admits to theft from Lockport B&B
LOCKPORT – A man who stole property from a Town of Lockport home where a bed-and-breakfast was to open last year pleaded guilty Wednesday before Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who scheduled...
View ArticleMan sentenced to time served in jail fight
LOCKPORT – Jason W. Lewis, who assaulted a fellow Niagara County Jail inmate in 2011, was sentenced to time served Wednesday in Niagara County Court.Defense Attorney E. Earl Key said Lewis, 39, of...
View ArticleMigrant worker robbery suspect extradited to Wyoming County
WARSAW – An Arcade man was returned from Charlotte, N.C., where he was jailed after his arrest by U.S. marshals for his alleged role in the robbery of two Mexican migrant workers in the Town of...
View ArticleWest Seneca man indicted on predatory sex charges
LOCKPORT – A West Seneca man faces a potential sentence of life in prison if convicted as charged in a sex crime indictment unsealed Wednesday in Niagara County Court.Justin C. Wheeler, 20, of...
View ArticlePedestrian killed in St. Catharines named
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – Niagara Regional Police released the name of the pedestrian struck and killed by a car at the entrance to the QEW, at Dunkirk Road, about 8:15 p.m. Saturday.Joseph Kazlauskas...
View ArticleMan charged in Mariner Street home burglary
David More, 59, of North Street, was charged with second-degree burglary by Buffalo police following his arrest for allegedly burglarizing a Mariner Street woman’s home about 3:24 a.m. Wednesday. More...
View ArticleMan charged with breaking into CSX building
Jerry R. Bly, 22, of Clifford Street was charged with grand larceny and other charges for allegedly breaking into a CSX building on Ohio Street about 4 p.m. Monday and stealing steel rails, Buffalo...
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