Woman injured during argument
A 29-year-old Aldrich Place man was charged with third degree assault and harassment for allegedly throwing a television tube at a neighbor woman during an argument early Monday. Christopher Hurysz...
View ArticleAmherst man gets his guns back
David A. Lewis emerged Monday afternoon from Amherst Police Headquarters, satisfied to have the police return his guns but deeply dissatisfied about being incorrectly labeled as having mental health...
View ArticleMan sentenced for burglaries, attacks near Buffalo State
A Buffalo man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for sexually assaulting two SUNY Buffalo State students after breaking into their residences.Kahlil Peoples, of Woodlawn Avenue, pleaded guilty...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in slaying of uncle
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who gunned down his uncle after a family spat accepted a plea offer Tuesday in Niagara County Court.Darius M. Belton, 18, admitted to first-degree manslaughter and is to...
View ArticleStray bullet found in front of a Starpoint elementary school
PENDLETON – Starpoint schools were searched by the Niagara County sheriff department and the school was put in “lockout” mode, closing all doors to the public, after a bullet was found in front of the...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in mugging
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man admitted Tuesday in Niagara County Court that he took part in the mugging of a man July 15 near a Coastal gas station on 19th Street in Niagara Falls.Raco N. Black, 45,...
View ArticleLockport man imprisoned for equipment theft
LOCKPORT – Michael D. Maacks, 26, of Dysinger Road, Lockport, was sentenced Tuesday to two to four years in state prison for his role in the theft of $10,000 worth of equipment from a Lockport...
View ArticleTuscarora man denies pot, weapons charges
LOCKPORT – A Tuscarora Indian Reservation resident who has been to state prison twice before pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court to a new indictment charging him with illegal...
View ArticleGuilty plea in armed holdup at Falls 7-Eleven
LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara man faces up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to the June 30 robbery of a 7-Eleven store on Hyde Park Boulevard in Niagara Falls.James A. Connell,...
View ArticleFather of three pleads guilty to robbery, burglary
LOCKPORT – A married father of three daughters admitted Tuesday in Niagara County Court that he burglarized his in-laws’ home and robbed a man in a car, climaxing five years of addiction to...
View ArticleSecurity supervisor arrested for product thefts
The former security supervisor of the Best Buy Store on Transit Road in Clarence was arrested for alleged thefts of more than $21,000 in store electronics product following a two-month investigation...
View ArticleTwo injured in a street fight
NIAGARA FALLS – A 62-year-old woman told Niagara Falls police that she was picked up by the neck and thrown against a telephone pole, injuring her neck and breaking her left hand, when she went to the...
View ArticleKensington Expressway reopens after construction accident
Traffic in both directions on the Kensington Expressway was reopened at about 10 p.m. Tuesday after an hour-long delay while police, firefighters and state workers dealt with debris that fell from a...
View ArticleDepew police warn of rash of car break-ins and thefts
Thieves not only have been ransacking parked vehicles in Depew – three were stolen outright from driveways, village police reported today.Several “car pops” have occurred during the past three weeks,...
View ArticlePolice release photos of 2 sought for questioning in fatal attack on man, 96
Buffalo homicide detectives Tuesday night said they were seeking to question 22-year-old Elhajji Elshabazz and 17-year-old Shaquar Pratcher in a Nov. 24 home invasion on Longview Avenue that led to...
View ArticleDeputy pleads guilty to pepper-spraying inmate
An Erie County Sheriff’s deputy admitted Wednesday to pepper-spraying an inmate at the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden.Josephine Cutolo, 54, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty before Magistrate...
View ArticleMotorists from Buffalo, Concord charged with felony DWI
Two motorists were charged with felony counts of driving while intoxicated in separate arrests Tuesday night in the Town of Sardinia and City of Buffalo, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported.Deputy...
View ArticleCase of man charged under gun law headed to Chautauqua County Court
SILVER CREEK – The case of Benjamin Wassell, the first person to be charged under the state’s new gun law for selling an automatic weapon to someone who did not have the right to own one, will be...
View ArticleTrial date set in puppy-burning case
Accused dog burner and parole absconder Adell Ziegler on Wednesday waived his right to a jury trial and will face a June 3 bench trial on a felony animal-cruelty count.A pretrial conference was...
View ArticlePolice probe ‘suspicious’ deaths of two in Chautauqua County
FREWSBURG – The deaths of two people whose bodies were found today in the Chautauqua County town of Carroll have been labeled as suspicious, according to Chautauqua County Undersheriff Charles...
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