Mom of three succeeds in judicial diversion program
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman has become one of the rare success stories in the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment.Gina M. Frey, 26, of Augustus Place, on Thursday was...
View ArticleSex offender admits to registration felony
LOCKPORT – A Level 1 sex offender admitted in Niagara County Court Thursday that he failed to inform the state last March that he moved, as required by state law.Christopher Montgomery, 29, of Willow...
View ArticlePolish citizen arraigned on double DWI
LOCKPORT – A citizen of Poland living in Lockport pleaded not guilty Thursday to an indictment charging him with two counts of felony driving while intoxicated.Mariusz Swider, 36, of Sunnyside Street,...
View ArticleTax evasion leads to prison time
A Lancaster man was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to 12 months in prison Friday for tax evasion.Eric J. Justin, 49, also was ordered to pay $216,295 in restitution to the...
View ArticleOne pleads guilty, another not guilty in NT painkiller cases
LOCKPORT – Steven J. Hummel, 20, of Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, pleaded not guilty Thursday in State Supreme Court to a four-count indictment accusing him of selling prescription painkillers.Hummel...
View ArticleDeli operator pleads guilty to food stamp fraud
A Buffalo deli operator faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced on his guilty plea to food stamp fraud, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. reported Friday.Karem...
View ArticleJamestown couple charged with growing marijuana
JAMESTOWN – A Jamestown husband and wife are facing criminal charges for marijuana possession and unlawfully growing the plants following a Nov. 30 search by Chautauqua County sheriff’s officials and...
View ArticleLockport man pleads guilty in drug case
LOCKPORT – Jermaine R. Webster, 32, of McCue Avenue, Lockport, pleaded guilty Friday in State Supreme Court to selling hydrocodone in Lockport April 23 and 24.Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. scheduled...
View ArticleEx-Buffalo man indicted for four bank robberies
A former Buffalo man was indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with four local HSBC Bank robberies in 2011, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. reported Friday.Clifford B. Smith, 32, is...
View ArticleBelligerent drug dealer charged by Buffalo police
A man who refused Buffalo Police orders to leave a West Side McDonald’s restaurant, saying he was “going to stay until he was done selling drugs,” was arrested on numerous charges, Buffalo Police...
View ArticleBurglars barge in, make off with ribs and wine
A Koons Avenue woman told Buffalo Police that burglars kicked in the kitchen door of her home, breaking a lock and the door frame, and stole $50 worth of frozen ribs and three bottles of wine.The...
View ArticleCopper thieves hit East Side Buddhist temple
A pair of copper thefts – including one at an East Side Buddhist temple – are being investigated by Buffalo Police.A representative for the temple at 188 Ludington St. told police that sometime between...
View ArticleDriver passes out at Mighty Taco drive-thru
Erie County sheriff’s road patrols made two DWI arrests early Saturday morning, including one based on a complaint that a driver had passed out in the drive-thru lane of a fast-food...
View ArticleCar lands upright on Metro Rail station wall in spectacular crash
A spectacular hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in front of the Delavan/Canisius College Metro Rail Station prompted authorities to close the station for safety and structural reasons, after one...
View ArticlePolice investigating armed robbery at gas station
Northwest District police are investigating an armed robbery of a vehicle at a Riverside-area gas station early Saturday morning.The victim told patrol officers that two men put a silver handgun in her...
View ArticleFeds say couple used Amherst hotel in prostitution ring
Authorities have arrested a man and woman from Rochester on sex-trafficking charges, accusing them of using an Amherst hotel to engage a teenager in prostitution.Otis Willis, 30, and Tiffany St. Denis,...
View ArticleSLA charges Depew bar where driver drank before fatal crash
The State Liquor Authority has charged the owners of the Depew bar where a Lancaster man was served even after he was falling-down drunk, then got into his vehicle, drove away and fatally struck a...
View ArticleFood stamp fraud to cost man $250,000, prison time
A Buffalo deli operator faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced on his guilty plea to food stamp fraud, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. reported.Karem Almadrahi, 35,...
View ArticleTwo arrested in separate DWI incidents
A man and woman were arrested in separate alleged driving-while-intoxicated incidents on Grand Island and on Buffalo’s East Side, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office reported today.Charles D....
View ArticleTonawanda man, 22, charged in stabbing death
A 22-year-old man who was described by close friends as badly in need of mental health treatment was arrested early Sunday in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in the Sheridan-Parkside...
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