Head of cocaine ring in Wheatfield gets 8-year prison term
The head of a large-scale cocaine ring that operated out of bars in northern Erie County and Niagara County was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to eight years in...
View ArticlePolice, feds raid Perry Homes for guns, cocaine
Federal and local police made several arrests, confiscated several guns and seized as much as three and half pounds of crack cocaine during raids this morning at the Commodore Perry Homes.Most of the...
View ArticleFormer police adviser pleads guilty to drug charge
Two years ago, Ricky M. Allen Sr. led an effort to improve the Buffalo Police Department.Today, he’s a convicted drug dealer.Allen, former interim chairman of the Buffalo Joint Commission to Examine...
View ArticleTraffic stop leads to drug charge
LEWISTON – A Niagara Falls woman faces a number of charges, including possession of marijuana, after she was stopped for failure to display an inspection sticker on the windshield of her vehicle just...
View ArticleApartment found burglarized in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A Fairview Drive resident told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday that someone entered her apartment and took electronics and a number of personal items while she was away.The woman...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in electronics store break-in
LOCKPORT – Jamarius D. Scott, 21, of Linwood Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court to taking part in the Feb. 17 burglary of NYC Jewelry and Electronics Outlet, 1605...
View ArticleRape suspect freed; prosecution admits trial unlikely
LOCKPORT – A man accused of raping a woman at knifepoint was freed from Niagara County Jail Wednesday on the orders of County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, as the case against him seemed to be coming...
View ArticleFalls man charged with crack cocaine sales
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, arrested Tuesday morning when police battered down the door of his 37th Street apartment as he was getting dressed, was arraigned in Niagara County Court Wednesday on...
View ArticleHomeless man pleads guilty in Falls crime spree
LOCKPORT – A homeless Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing a van, a purse and the wallet of a woman who was trying to find him shelter, all in a three-day period.John R. Malicoat,...
View ArticleRape trial postponed as attorneys discover conflict
LOCKPORT – The trial of a Niagara Falls man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl last year, which was to begin Monday, was postponed indefinitely Wednesday as public defenders had to withdraw from the...
View ArticleDNA ties parole violator to 2008-09 burglaries
LOCKPORT – A man who was jailed Monday for violating parole in a 2010 burglary case was accused Wednesday in Niagara County Court of committing two prior burglaries to which he was connected by DNA...
View ArticleLast of 34 defendants pleads guilty
A Buffalo man pleaded guilty Wednesday to cocaine trafficking.Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael L. McCabe said David Howard, 41, aided in the sale of cocaine to members of the “31 Gang” by using a house...
View ArticleStrange find prompts further testing
WILSON – A Wood Street man called Niagara County sheriff’s deputies after he found a rusty 55 gallon drum with a tuft of hair sticking out of it. The hair appears to be horse hair, according to the...
View ArticleFire crews respond to Lockport thrift store
LOCKPORT – Police and firefighters were called after smoke began filling the Salvation Army Thrift Store on South Transit Road at 2:30 p.m. todayState troopers and volunteers from the South Lockport...
View ArticleCouple’s quarrel resolved but prior criminal case still pending
Fears of a possible abduction after a couple quarrelled in Buffalo turned out to be unfounded when police found the couple and a 3-year-old child safe early Wednesday in a Niagara Falls motel, but the...
View ArticleHandgun shooter sought by Amherst police
A tall man who fired a number of gunshots at the University Manor on Main Street in Amherst late Tuesday was being sought Wednesday by Amherst police. Police responded to calls from the hotel at 3612...
View ArticleWife of fugitive sex offender arraigned in Niagara County Court
LOCKPORT – Diane G. Turley surrendered to Lockport police and was arraigned Tuesday on felony charges of hindering prosecution.She is accused of helping her husband, Paul S. Turley, of Dunkirk, skip...
View ArticleCanadian man saved near brink of Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – After a five-hour round of negotiating, a man who had threatened to jump off Table Rock near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls was rescued by Niagara Regional Police and city fire...
View ArticlePerry Homes residents lived in fear for years
Senior citizens were frightened to leave their modest public housing apartments, schoolchildren walked past drug deals in hallways, and drug dealers carried on as if they owned the place.It went on...
View ArticleAntoine Garner pleads guilty to sex, robbery charges
A Buffalo man recently convicted of choking and assaulting a prostitute admitted to more crimes Wednesday stemming from two other violent incidents.Antoine J. Garner, 26, pleaded guilty as charged to...
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