Two alleged gang members plead to drug charges
Two Buffalo men associated with the LRGP Gang on the city’s East Side have pleaded guilty to charges related to cocaine distribution before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. Attorney William...
View ArticleRansomville woman pleads to federal drug charges
A Ransomville woman involved in a marijuana-smuggling operation has pleaded guilty to federal drug-conspiracy charges before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr....
View ArticleJudge orders mental competency exam for murder defendant
LOCKPORT – A judge ordered a mental competency examination Thursday for a man accused of killing his girlfriend with a sledgehammer and a knife in the victim’s North Tonawanda home.State Supreme Court...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty in forged check scam
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman faces as long as seven years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to masterminding a forged-check operation last year.Tasheen N. Dillard, 33, of Cedar Avenue,...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to Lockport stabbing
LOCKPORT – Justin J. Snead, 22, of Lincoln Place, Lockport, who stabbed a man twice July 5 in the parking lot of an apartment complex, pleaded guilty Thursday in Niagara County Court.Snead admitted to...
View ArticleCity of Tonawanda man draws probation in painkiller case
LOCKPORT – A man who illegally possessed the painkiller hydrocodone in North Tonawanda last year was placed on three years’ probation Thursday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.Daniel P....
View ArticleDrug seller, drunken driver plead guilty before Kloch
LOCKPORT – A man who sold painkillers in North Tonawanda and a man who drove drunk in the Town of Lockport in an unrelated incident both pleaded guilty Thursday before State Supreme Court Justice...
View ArticleThree imprisoned in near-fatal shooting of teen in Falls
LOCKPORT – Three Niagara Falls men were sent to state prison Thursday in connection with the shooting of a teenager who was left with a bullet lodged near his heart.There continued to be disagreement...
View ArticleEast Side residents welcome resolutions in unsolved homicides
Adrian L. Huggins Jr. Shaquille Woods. Vernon Hardy. Fred Rozier. Amir Chambers. Andre Anderson. Edward Battles.The seven were victims of Buffalo’s street gangs or the illegal drug trade over the last...
View ArticleGas station attendant stabbed in robbery attempt
A knife-wielding man who robbed the Stop and Gas station in the 300 block of Hopkins near Tifft streets and stabbed a clerk just before 6 p.m. is the subject of a city-wide search by Buffalo police....
View ArticleStudents escape injury in bus-truck collision
ELLICOTTVILLE -- A First Student school bus carrying 14 students was rear-ended by a box truck as the bus stopped at a railroad crossing on State Route 242 about 11:15 a.m. today. State Police...
View ArticleConvicted felon guilty of firearms charge
A jury has found a convicted felon guilty of illegally possessing a firearm following a trial before U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. reported Thursday.Jason...
View ArticleCheektowaga brothers indicted in firearms case
Two brothers from Cheektowaga have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of being armed career criminals in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced...
View ArticleMan charged in stabbing
A 48-year-old Colorado Street man was being held Thursday on first-degree assault charges for allegedly stabbing a Kay Street man in his shoulder during an argument Wednesday. Daniel C. Chesshier fled...
View ArticleTuscarora man draws praise as he is imprisoned in DWI fatal
LOCKPORT – There was almost universal praise Friday in Niagara County Court for Pierce L. Abrams – even from the judge who sent him to state prison for drunkenly crashing his car and killing his best...
View ArticleJudge rejects suit by former UB coach
Tim Cohane’s 10-year fight to clear his name, or at least the chapter accusing the University at Buffalo of ruining his big-time college coaching career, may be coming to an end.A federal judge is...
View ArticleInmate denies heroin sale charges
LOCKPORT – A man who is serving a state prison sentence in connection with a heroin overdose death is accused of selling the drug four times last fall, while he was awaiting sentencing.Miguel E....
View ArticleCeglia will retain his latest lawyer
Turns out Paul Ceglia will keep his lawyer after all.Dean Boland, the Ohio lawyer who wanted off of Ceglia’s Facebook ownership suit, has been ordered to stay with the case.U.S. Magistrate Judge...
View ArticleWellsville man charged with damaging patrol car in Lakewood
LAKEWOOD – A 37-year-old Wellsville man already in custody on burglary-related charges was slapped with a criminal mischief charge after allegedly repeatedly kicking and damaging the back door of a...
View ArticlePolice raid meth lab in Allegany
ALLEGANY – Three men are being held in the Cattaraugus County Jail on felony charges of manufacturing methamphetamine following a Thursday night raid on a South Seventh Street home by the Southern...
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