Niagara Falls, Ont., drug arrests
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Large amounts of illegal steroids and cocaine were seized in raids at two houses here by Niagara Regional Police detectives aided by officers of the Intelligence Unit and...
View ArticleCopper thefts reported at several vacant properties in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – City police received reports of copper thefts at three vacant buildings. All three were bank-owned, abandoned buildings and the thefts were reported by a contractor for Niagara Removal...
View ArticleFalls man faces cocaine charges
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, accused of selling cocaine to a police informant who was wearing a recording device Feb. 6 in North Tonawanda, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Niagara County...
View ArticleDrunken driver accepts second chance at plea offer
LOCKPORT – Rodney W. Craft, 46, of Maple Terrace, North Tonawanda, pleaded guilty to a felony count of driving while intoxicated Wednesday, risking a trip to state prison when Niagara County Judge...
View ArticleNT man admits forging prescriptions
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man pleaded guilty Wednesday to forging prescriptions and attempting to get them filled Jan. 28 at a pharmacy in North Tonawanda.Zachary S. Gravell, 25, of Oliver Street,...
View ArticleWoman pleads to three theft charges, enters drug treatment
LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in State Supreme Court to a felony and two misdemeanors regarding crimes in Niagara Falls April 7 and 8.Nita Snyder, 37, of Isherwood Drive,...
View ArticleJury to hear results of Nushawn Williams' HIV test
Lawyers for Nushawn Williams, the Jamestown man accused of intentionally spreading the virus that causes AIDS, will be allowed to offer evidence at his trial indicating he is not infected with...
View ArticleStrykersville man killed in one-car crash
A 34-year-old Strykersville man was killed when his car hit a pile of dirt and then a tree limb and overturned a number of times on Maple Hill Road in the Town of Wales about 1 a.m. Wednesday.Justice...
View ArticleLockport parking ramp demolition gets green light as suit is dropped
LOCKPORT – The litigation over the demolition of the downtown Lockport parking ramp ended with a whimper Wednesday, and the ramp’s history will end with a bang in a few days.A lawsuit over the...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets 20 years for child exploitation
One of the biggest child pornography prosecutions in history is sending a Buffalo man to prison.Todd Stumpf, 61, of Fillmore Avenue, was sentenced to 20 years Tuesday for his role in an international...
View ArticleOutburst in courtroom leads to arrest
NIAGARA FALLS – A man was charged after he allegedly uttered an obscenity at a judge and fought with an officer on Wednesday morning.Paul Kasprzycki, 60, of Ferry Avenue was charged with third-degree...
View ArticleDriver faces a fifth drunken driving charge
TOWN OF NIAGARA – A Cayuga Village man with four previous drunken driving convictions, two of them within the past three months, was stopped for a fifth time on Wednesday.William P. Rew, 55, of West...
View ArticleStolen property found and man arrested
NIAGARA FALLS – Police responding to a harassment call found plastic totes full of electronics that had been reported stolen earlier Wednesday from a neighboring apartment in the 700 block of Eighth...
View ArticleMother and daughter injured in amherst car-tractor-trailer accident
A woman and her young daughter were taken by ambulance from the crash of a passenger vehicle and a tractor-trailer rig on Sheridan Drive at Brompton Road about 2:30 p.m. today. Amherst police are...
View ArticleHuntress wins $3 million judgment against Amherst
Developer William L. Huntress has won a $3 million jury verdict against the Town of Amherst after a four-week trial in state court.Huntress sued the Town Board after it voted in 2006 to rescind a...
View ArticleBeating victim placed on probation in revenge burglary
LOCKPORT – A beating victim who broke into the home of his assailant’s father was sentenced to five years’ probation Thursday by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr.Thomas J. Pembleton,...
View ArticleTwo arrested in LeRoy drug raid
LEROY – A Clay Street couple was arrested Thursday by the Genesee County Legal Drug Enforcement Task Force during a raid on their home at midday.Jacqueline D. Cecere, 35, and Brandon Longhany, 33,...
View ArticleDunkirk man arrested on a drug grand jury indictment warrant
DUNKIRK – A 24-year-old Dunkirk man was taken to the Chautauqua County Jail after his arrest Tuesday night on a grand jury indictment linked to a three-month investigation of his allegedly drug...
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty to federal illegal document charge
A 37-year-old Buffalo man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to criminal possession with intent to use or transfer unlawfully identification documents allegedly destined...
View ArticleBuffalo man arrested on federal marijuana trafficking charges
A 44-year-old Buffalo man was arrested today on federal marijuana trafficking charges and is being held pending further court proceedings next week. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. said Keith Goss...
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