Mother who kidnapped children gets 18 months
Jacqueline Bontzolakes says an abusive relationship forced her to gather up her two kids, flee her Town of Tonawanda home and escape to faraway Barbados.A federal court jury didn’t buy her story,...
View ArticleOrchard Park police seek burglarly suspect
Orchard Park Police are looking for the public’s help in solving a recent burglary.At about 3 p.m. on Jan. 4 , a security camera at the Express Laundry, 3005 Abbott Road, recorded a man taking cash...
View ArticleFed agents, local police bust suspected meth ring
Buffalo SWAT team members and federal agents arrested a suspected West Side drug dealer this afternoon, completing a roundup that began early this morning in an attempt to put an end to a new...
View ArticleLockport mayor designates ‘impact zone’ to crack down on crime
LOCKPORT – As the smell of marijuana filled Common Council Chambers, Mayor Michael W. Tucker on Friday proclaimed a new police crackdown in the Genesee Street-Washburn Street area of Lockport.The...
View ArticleMan charged with sex abuse of two girls
BEMUS POINT – A 75-year-old man was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually abusing two girls in Bemus Point between June and December of 2011, Chautauqua County Sheriff’s officials said.The suspect...
View ArticleBank robber who led cops on chase gets 15 years
A bank robber who led Amherst police a year ago on a seven-mile chase that ended in a three-car crash on Buffalo’s East Side was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.Mark Daniels, 48, of Cheektowaga...
View ArticleAlden teacher admits ‘sexting’ with student
A social studies teacher at Alden High School who sent sexual instant messages to a student pleaded guilty this week, Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said Friday.Gerald Wild II, 46,...
View ArticleTenth Street Gang member pleads guilty to racketeering
Hector Rodriguez, 24, a member of the West Side’s notorious 10th Street Gang, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal racketeering charge. He faces a prison term of up to 20 years and a find of up to...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets eight years on firearms count
Jimmy Lee Barner, 30, of Buffalo, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson to serve a eight and one-third years in prison on his conviction for being a felon illegally possession firearms and...
View ArticleBusinessman arrested on ‘sexting’ charges
The owner of West Seneca’s American Indoor Street Hockey Center, was arrested by Cheektowaga police Friday and charged with aggravated harassment and child endangerment for allegedly sending text...
View ArticleAkron man indicted on child porn charges
An Akron man has been indicted on child pornography charges by a federal grand jury. Michael A. Taschetta, 54, is accused of downloading images of child pornography from the Internet utilizing a...
View ArticleThree injured in Amherst parking lot incident
Three people were injured Friday afternoon when a driver mistakenly stepped on the gas and drove into them as they stood near a Goodwill Industries trailer in the parking lot of an Amherst...
View ArticleTwo plead guilty to drug felonies, enter treatment program
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man and a Lockport woman pleaded guilty to drug felonies Friday in Niagara County Court, and both were assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug...
View ArticleWoodlawn Avenue man convicted of gun charge
A Woodlawn Avenue man faces up to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced next month after being convicted Friday on a charge of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with an...
View ArticleMan who failed to care for mother imprisoned but could collect estate
Harold C. Shaver Jr. was sent to prison Friday because he failed to provide any care for four years for his 85-year-old mother, who spent 24 hours a day on a couch soaked with urine and feces, and...
View ArticleFight investigation leads to felony charges against three Dunkirk residents
An investigation into a fight call early Saturday morning in Dunkirk led to felony drug charges against three young people, after Dunkirk police seized suspected marijuana, along with crack and powder...
View ArticleMan attacked by masked men while sitting on Fruit Belt porch in Buffalo
Several males wearing masks attacked a man who was sitting on a Fruit Belt porch in Buffalo early Saturday, leaving the victim with stab wounds to the hand and buttocks, along with a laceration,...
View ArticleMan robbed in Chippewa District
A man was robbed early Saturday in the Chippewa District.The robber – wearing a black hat and blue parka – approached the man about 3:45 a.m. at Franklin and Chippewa streets with his hand in his...
View ArticleProperty-damage accident leads to felony DWI charge in N. Collins
A North Collins woman was charged with felony driving while intoxicated, following a minor property-damage crash Friday on Route 62, state police reported.A vehicle, driven by 43-year-old Deanna...
View ArticleShooting death along Kensington Avenue is Buffalo’s first homicide of...
Buffalo police say they are investigating the city’s first homicide of 2013, after a man was fatally shot while sitting in a vehicle along Kensington Avenue early Saturday.The deadly incident occurred...
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