Canadian police officer gets prison time for smuggling steroids
A constable with the Niagara Regional Police was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to a year in prison for smuggling steroids across the border.Geoffrey Purdie, a 13-year...
View ArticleLocal man pleads guilty to child porn charge
A Buffalo man accused of trying to entice a minor into sexual activity pleaded guilty Monday before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to a single charge of attempting to receive child...
View ArticleFire shuts down Route 60 in Chautauqua County
A fire inside a trucking company in the Town of Pomfret early Monday afternoon forced authorities to close a section of Route 60 in both directions, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department...
View ArticleWarrant arrest leads to drug charge
NEWFANE – A Ridge Road man, arrested at his home on an unspecified warrant, faced additional charges when Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said they found him carrying prescription drugs that were...
View ArticleLockport man charged with drunken driving after he runs out of gas
WILSON – Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies charged a Lockport man with aggravated drunken driving after he was found to have a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.Patrick J. Mack,...
View ArticleDrunken driver sent to state prison
LOCKPORT – James L. Mormino, who according to Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, has been arrested 12 times for alcohol-related driving offenses, was sentenced Monday to one to three years in...
View ArticleGetaway driver in pizza delivery robbery gets seven years in prison
A Buffalo man who acted as the getaway driver when he and two others robbed a pizza delivery driver of $205 was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison.Leland Jirdon, 35, of Montclair Street, had...
View ArticleSerial graffiti vandal to do 1,000 hours of clean-up
A serial graffiti vandal described as “a total loser” was spared prison Monday and instead placed on probation and ordered to spend 1,000 hours cleaning up his and others’ graffiti.Erie County Court...
View ArticleWoman, son charged with felony assault
A Seventh Street woman and her son were arrested on felony assault charges about an hour after they allegedly attacked a Hempstead Avenue man with a bottle during a party on Grace Street at about 10...
View ArticleAlleged cocaine dealer pleads guilty to charges
An alleged cocaine dealer accused of receiving inside information about police investigations pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to drugs and weapons charges.John C....
View ArticleGuilty plea entered in child porn online sting
A Buffalo man accused of trying to entice a minor into sexual activity pleaded guilty Monday before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to a single charge of attempting to receive child...
View ArticleMan fatally shot on Parkdale
A 34-year-old man was fatally shot just after 11 p.m. Tuesday on the 300 block of Parkdale Avenue, authorities reported today.Investigators said the victim, whose name has not been released, had been...
View Article5 to 10 years in prison for man who shot up Lockport house
LOCKPORT – Kenneth W. Houghton Jr., a Lockport man who riddled a Genesee Street home with a shotgun blast Christmas night and later injured a police officer, was sentenced to five to 10 years in state...
View ArticleFalls man takes plea in assaults on women
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who had been charged with assaulting three women – two of his girlfriends and one of their mothers – settled the case by pleading guilty to two felonies...
View ArticleSecond man pleads guilty in Falls mugging
LOCKPORT – Carl R. Adams of Niagara Falls accepted a plea offer Wednesday in Niagara County Court, wrapping up the case of the July 15 mugging of a man from whom $60 was stolen near a gas station on...
View ArticleMan who wanted to go to jail should be out in about a week
An ex-convict suffering from leukemia and once eager to return to jail in order to get treatment was sentenced to 100 days in federal prison Wednesday but should be out in about a week.Frank J....
View ArticleFailing to use seat belt puts man in jail
A 20-year-old Buffalo man remained in the Erie County Holding Center Wednesday evening, hours after his Buffalo City Court arraignment, all because his failure to use a seat belt attracted the...
View ArticleLockport man imprisoned for having 2 ounces of cocaine
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas sent Gary Kelly of Lockport, who was caught with more than two ounces of cocaine in his home, to prison for 3 1/2 years Wednesday.Kelly, 42, of John...
View ArticleProbation for first of five to plead in forged check scheme
LOCKPORT – Shana L. Wallace, 21, of Hawley Street, Lockport, was placed on three years’ probation Wednesday by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. for her part in a forged check and...
View ArticleDefendant charged with shaking and seriously injuring his child
NIAGARA FALLS – An infant girl suffered five broken ribs and a head injury when she was allegedly shaken by her father late last month at a home on Ninth Street. “He assaulted his own baby,” said...
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