Man charged after incident at Bowl Inn
Charles Kane, 26, of Union Road, Cheektowaga, was arrested at the Bowl Inn bowling center at 727 Bailey Ave. on Tuesday just after midnight after he allegedly began kicking, swearing and threatening...
View ArticleWoman admits stealing purses from Wegmans customers
A 50-year-old woman has admitted that she stole purses from five shoppers at the Wegmans on Amherst Street.Charlene McBride, whose last known address is in Buffalo, pleaded guilty to four counts of...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in 5 armed robberies
A Buffalo man faces 50 years in prison after pleading guilty last week to robbery charges in connection with five armed robberies last year in Buffalo.Antonio Bedgood, 36, of Crossman Street, admitted...
View ArticleTonawanda man takes plea in child pornography case
A Town of Tonawanda man pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession of child pornography.Rosan J. Mack, 38, was accused of making a videotape of a 13-year-old...
View ArticleDomestic assault brings felony charges for Falls man
NIAGARA FALLS – Police charged a man with a felony for allegedly attempting to strangle a victim in a domestic violence assault on Sunday. Daniel J. Regan Jr., 24, of Locust Street, was arraigned...
View ArticleNYC man who diverted flight gets probation
A Staten Island man whose actions prompted a JetBlue flight to be diverted to Buffalo Niagara International Airport was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder to a year of...
View ArticleDarien man killed in head-on collision
DARIEN – A man was killed and a woman seriously injured early Wednesday morning in a two-car crash on Route 238, Genesee County Sheriff’s officials said.At about 6 a.m., Timothy Beszczynski, 25, of...
View Article‘The Godfather’ faces 20 years in prison for heading West Side...
Around his Plymouth Street neighborhood, Elliott Fuentes was known as “The Godfather."It was a nickname he earned after beating drug and weapons charges in 2007.Five years later, the law is catching...
View ArticleWoman found passed out behind wheel of car halfway in ditch
Erie County Sheriff’s deputies found a woman passed out behind the wheel of a car that was halfway into a ditch on the side of a road in Akron Tuesday, officials said.Kristen M. Pequeen, 32, of Akron...
View ArticleSuspected thieves from NYC caught in Lancaster
Lancaster police arrested a New York City couple accused of using fraudulent travelers checks at department stores in Western New York and possibly beyond, officials said today.Bernardo Fleurima, 21,...
View Article98-year-old West Seneca woman killed in car accident
RUSHFORD – A 98-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident just after 3 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of State Route 243 and County Route 23, state police in Amity said Thursday.The...
View ArticleMan surrenders after standoff with police on Hinman Avenue
A standoff with an armed man ended peacefully when he surrendered and left a house in the 400 block of Hinman Avenue in North Buffalo.The man unloaded a shotgun and left it in the house before coming...
View ArticleLong prison term possible for man who failed at drug treatment
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man could be sentenced to as long as 12 years in state prison after being ejected from the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment Wednesday by Niagara...
View ArticleTonawanda man pleads guilty to kidnapping, abusing 5-year-old girl
LOCKPORT - David J. Grover, who kidnapped a 5-year-old girl from her North Tonawanda home last summer and sexually abused her, pleaded guilty today after a judge said she probably would allow...
View ArticleCourt orders halt to demolition at Bethlehem Steel site
A group of preservationists has won a court order that temporarily stops the demolition at the site of the Bethlehem Steel Administration Building in Lackawanna, pending a hearing Wednesday in State...
View ArticleSecond house fire on Ashland Avenue in Falls is tied to same man
NIAGARA FALLS – A man who used a gas furnace to heat a condemned house in which he was living at 1348 Ashland Ave. is believed to have been responsible for a fire there just before 10:30 p.m....
View ArticleMan admits kidnapping, abusing N. Tonawanda girl
LOCKPORT – A Town of Tonawanda man, who kidnapped a 5-year-old girl from her North Tonawanda home last summer and sexually abused her, pleaded guilty Thursday after a judge said she probably would...
View ArticleCounty attorney advice noted in Wienckowski dispute
The Erie County attorney advised Chief Medical Examiner Dianne R. Vertes not to appear before a County Legislature committee last week to discuss her autopsy conclusion that the mysterious death of...
View ArticleMan admits stealing iPads using fake credit cards
A 22-year-old Bronx man on Thursday admitted using counterfeit credit cards to steal $20,000 worth of iPads from the Apple Store at the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga.Stephen P. Moore pleaded guilty...
View ArticleSuspected gunman arrested in Welland bank robbery
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – A 42-year-old Welland man was arrested Thursday as the lone gunman who tried to rob a Welland bank during a noontime incident Dec. 21, Niagara Regional Police reported.Shawn...
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