Man arrested in stolen car with stolen property
A 22-year-old Hamilton Street man was arrested in an allegedly stolen Prius when he was stopped at Military Road and Kail Street about 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Rafael Alicea-Torres was charged with...
View ArticleMan stabbed in arm during argument
A 45-year-old Drexel Road woman was arrested about 6:15 p.m. Thursday for allegedly using a small knife to stab a male friend in the left arm during an argument in her home. Cassandra Butler was...
View ArticleLoud music leads police to drug operation
Three young out-of-town men were arrested on a variety of drug-related criminal charges after Buffalo police found a possible drug-dealing operation when they were attracted by loud music coming from...
View ArticleCouple sentenced for Orchard Park PTO theft
The former treasurer of a parent-teacher organization at Orchard Park Middle School and her husband were each sentenced Friday to five years’ probation and ordered to perform 300 hours of community...
View ArticleErie County prosecutors gain guilty pleas in five illegal gun cases
Five people, caught in separate incidents, have admitted in court in the past week to illegally possessing weapons in Buffalo.“Five potential shooters off the streets,” Erie County District Attorney...
View ArticleSuits filed in body tampering, injured cop cases
LOCKPORT – The parents of a man killed in a car crash, a part of whose body was taken to be used in training a dog, filed a lawsuit against Niagara County this week.Danny P. Dunn Sr. and Anita L. Dunn...
View ArticleWest Seneca police charge man on payloader with DWI
The drunken driving arrest West Seneca police made Friday night was not a typical DWI stop.Officers were dispatched at about 6:40 p.m. Friday after receiving several reports of a payloader stuck in...
View ArticleJudge denies Barnes new hearing in ’86 killings
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas changed her mind last week and refused to hold another hearing for a Lockport man convicted of a 1986 double murder.Farkas was angered when defense...
View ArticlePolice suspect burglary of Cayuga Drive bar may be inside job
NIAGARA FALLS – Police said they are investigating a possible employee connection in the Friday morning burglary of Poppy’s Place on Cayuga Drive.Surveillance cameras showed a man wearing gloves and a...
View ArticleState lawyers fund pays back victims of fraud
A total of 187 people victimized by 60 lawyers were repaid $5.4 million in 2012, according to Timothy O’Sullivan, a spokesman for the state’s Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection.The overall sum...
View ArticleFalls burglary victim has hunch crime was triggered by spurned invitation
NIAGARA FALLS – The resident of a Fifth Street home burglarized Friday night suspects the perpetrator was a visitor to the home earlier in the day who had asked him about “doing some break-ins.”A...
View ArticleFalls woman accused of attempt to smuggle pills into jail
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman was arrested Friday afternoon for attempting to smuggle 13 pills into Niagara County Jail, authorities said.Gina M. Kiesinger, 23, of Monroe Avenue, was...
View ArticleShot fired into DeVeaux-area home follows break-in attempt
NIAGARA FALLS – A gunshot was fired into a DeVeaux-area home early Friday after an unsuccessful break-in attempt, police said.The shot, fired about 2:30 a.m., penetrated the e rear door of a McKoon...
View ArticleSuspect in stabbings of two arrested after crashing into Michigan Avenue bar
Two people were stabbed in a Carlton Street apartment and their attacker arrested early Saturday after a crash, Buffalo police said.Keith Dejournette, 59, of Carlton Street, was listed in serious...
View ArticleElderly man found dead in burning house
An elderly man was found dead inside a Lewiston home early this morning after fire swept through the Lower River Road house, according to the Niagara County Sheriff’s department.Lewiston police and...
View ArticleBaby injured in Alden domestic assault
An Alden man was charged with assault following a domestic incident that left a woman and 8-month old baby with minor injuries, state police said today.Matthew Poole, 43, threatened then assaulted the...
View ArticleSpringville man faces felony drunk driving charge
A Springville man faces a felony drunk driving charge after being arrested Saturday night for the second time in four years, according to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.Nicaiah Ausman, 26, was...
View ArticleFire in garage of Newfane home chases resident
NEWFANE – One resident fled from a home at 3948 Lockport-Olcott Road Saturday night after a fire broke out in the attached garage, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said.The blaze at 9:30 p.m. was...
View ArticleGPS units targeted in pair of Falls car break-ins
NIAGARA FALLS – Global positioning systems were targeted in two car break-ins unday morning, Niagara Falls police said..One car was parked in the lot of the Days Inn on Main Street, police said. A...
View ArticleTourists on coffee break lose their passports in car break-in
NIAGARA FALLS – Passports were among items stolen from the car of two tourists who had stopped for coffee in a Niagara Falls Boulevard business about 9:15 a.m. Saturday, police said.A Texas woman and...
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