$5,000 air conditioner stolen in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A central air-conditioning unit valued at $5,000 was stolen from a building in the 500 block of Main Street, city police said.The owner told police Sunday that the commercial unit was...
View ArticleUsed car dealer admits stealing sales tax
A Genesee Street car dealer on Monday admitted stealing $91,831 in sales tax he collected from car sales that he did not report on his state tax return, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office...
View ArticleFelon admits weapons count
A Georgia felon who moved to Buffalo has pleaded guilty, as charged, to criminal possession of a weapon, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.Jerome C. Hearn, 37, was living...
View ArticleMan charged with theft of copper from old hospital site
A Winslow Street man was arrested by security guards Monday morning and accused of stealing copper pipes from the old Deaconess Hospital site on Humboldt Parkway. Amuel Jackson, 34, who was...
View ArticleMan held in robbery of Niagara Street convenience store
A young man with no permanent address has been charged with first-degree robbery and criminal use of a firearm in the holdup about 2 a.m. Monday of the 7-Eleven store in the 900 block of Niagara...
View ArticleEx-convict charged with December rape of woman in High Street home
An ex-convict has been charged with the Dec. 29 rape of a woman in a High Street home, Buffalo police said Monday.Micgael M. Flax, 47, no address listed, is charge dwith third-degree rape. Flax was...
View ArticleOne drunken-driving arrest logged Sunday in Orchard Park STOP DWI effort.
A Hamburg man was charged with driving while intoxicated during the multi-agency STOP DWI patrol on Southwestern Boulevard at Webster Road in Orchard Park late Sunday afternoon. Timothy J. Cushman,...
View ArticleSuspect’s statements considered in dog burning
Accused dog burner and parole absconder Adell Ziegler was heading out of a house near West Ferry and Main streets when he ran into his parole officer.“I grabbed him,” Parole Officer Terry Anderson...
View ArticlePlea deal offered to Falls man in uncle’s killing
LOCKPORT – Darius M. Belton, the Niagara Falls man accused of fatally shooting his uncle in front of a crowd of witnesses, was offered a plea deal Monday.Belton, 18, of South Avenue, will appear...
View ArticleUnrelated armed robberies within hours in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A Buffalo Avenue 7-Eleven was robbed at gunpoint Monday night, two hours before four people walking to a convenience store also were robbed by gunmen on 17th Street. The holdups were...
View ArticleSedita undecided on new charges in Parete death
The weekend death of Buffalo Police Officer Patricia A. Parete has been classified a homicide, but Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III has not decided whether to seek a first-degree...
View ArticleArrest made in theft of TV from airport carousel
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police have made an arrest in the brazen theft of a 38-inch television from the baggage carousel at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport – all under the...
View ArticleNiagara teen injured, though cause remains unclear
TOWN OF NIAGARA – A hit and run crash was reported on Lockport Road Monday night but Niagara County sheriff’s deputies aren’t sure that the injured teen actually was struck.There was no description of...
View ArticleSitings of the Joker outside Jamestown no laughing matter
By Matt GrytaNews Staff ReporterLAKEWOOD – Police say they weren’t laughing Sunday night when they were called to a restaurant disturbance and arrived to find an unruly patron dressed as the Joker,...
View ArticleFormer county nurse settles discrimination case
Erie County will pay $67,500 to a former nurse at the Holding Center to settle her race discrimination case against the county.Nkechi P. Ilogu sued the county in 2011, claiming she was suspended and...
View ArticleFredonia burglary suspect arrested
FREDONIA – A Dunkirk man was arrested today by village police officers on second-degree burglary, criminal mischief and petit larceny charges.Timothy Odelbralski, 27, of North Pangolin Street, is...
View ArticleFalls man charged with felony DWI
NIAGARA FALLS – A city man stopped on a parking violation Monday faces felony drunken driving charges.Robert D. Oyer, 53, of Niagara Falls Boulevard, was stopped by city police at 7:15 p.m. in the...
View ArticleLockport dog breeder faces three misdemeanor charges
LOCKPORT – A woman accused of operating a puppy mill in her Town of Lockport home was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of cruelty to animals, all...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged with ransacking woman’s apartment
A Buffalo man was charged Monday with felony criminal mischief and is accused of ransacking a woman’s Bailey Avenue apartment, Buffalo police said.Dashawn O. Tillman, 22, of Brinkman Avenue, was found...
View ArticleMan charged with trying to smuggle pot into Attica prison
WARSAW – Jose H. Alicea, 28, of Syracuse, was arrested over the weekend as he tried to smuggle marijuana into the Attica Correctional Facility, State Police reported late Tuesday.Troopers said Alicea...
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