A man on probation was arrested on multiple charges after the Jamestown Metro Drug Task Force and the Southern Tier Regional Task Force executed a search warrant Thursday afternoon at his home on Forest Park, Jamestown Police reported.
According to the report, authorities said the victims – a 24-year-old woman who died after she was stabbed in an apparent domestic dispute and a 24-year-old man who was found dead following a blaze shortly afterward – knew one another.
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Eric J. Reyes, 39, was also convicted of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree assault, and first-degree attempted assault.
Maurice Walker, 48, and Tishawn Wilkins, 28, were detained on Sunday after authorities placed surveillance on a car Wilkins was driving on Myers Road in the Town of Amherst, the Sherriff’s Office said in a news release.
Prosecutors said Charles Porterfield, 37, less than a month after completing post-prison release supervision, paid a 13-year-old girl to engage in an online sexual relationship, and used the victim to produce still images and videos of child pornography.
Acting Erie County Court Judge Andrew C. LoTempio also sentenced Luis Martinez, 52, to five years of post-release supervision for attempted murder and other felonies.
Prosecutors said Daniel A. Martinez, 50, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge in full satisfaction of the indictment against him, which had charged him with murder.
At a Thursday news conference, Police Chief Brian Coons detailed how detectives used the department's Flock Safety license plate reader technology to locate a suspect.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia on Thursday said he believes the shooting of Dae’von Roberts on Wednesday was justified.
The deadly encounter between Dae’von Roberts and Buffalo police is detailed in video from police body-worn cameras released Thursday by the Buffalo Police Department.
The New York State Attorney General's Office said Thursday it has opened an investigation into Wednesday's fatal shooting by a Buffalo police officer.
An Amherst business owner convicted of tax evasion has been sentenced to four years' probation, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
The man killed by Buffalo police in a shooting Wednesday morning was Dae'von M. Roberts, half-brother of Jaylen Griffin, 12, the boy who went missing in 2020 and whose body was found earlier this year, two sources confirmed to The Buffalo News.
A Buffalo man was arrested Saturday in connection with alleged abuse of a minor earlier that day in Mariner Towers on the city's Lower West Side, Buffalo police reported.
Prosecutor Meghan E. Leydecker said that in April 2022, a search warrant was executed at the residence of 38-year-old Mario Kelly.
The 41-year-old victim, who was shot multiple times, was taken by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo let Peter Gerace Jr. waive any potential conflicts of interest in legal representation from his attorney Eric Soehnlein, who with Mark Foti has defended Gerace.
An Erie County judge on Monday granted Jayla L. Mueller youthful offender status and sentenced her to 1⅓ to 4 years in prison for an Amherst crash last year that killed her cousin and two friends.
Hayes Kagesheyongai Hamby, 28, has been arrested on multiple felony charges in connection with an assault on a woman Friday on the Tuscarora Reservation, Lewiston Police reported.
Two men were wounded in a shooting early Sunday at Elmwood Avenue and Bryant Street, Buffalo Police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge reported.
Weeks after the Tops Markets massacre in 2022, New York State enacted a law banning the sale of body armor to most private citizens, and that law is now under attack from gun rights advocates who call it unconstitutional.
Federal prosecutors have raised the specter of witness intimidation, tampering and even an assassination of a judge as they seek limits on how defense attorneys can access and use evidence collected during the investigation into the death of a witness in the Pharaoh's strip club case.
A shooting at a party Wednesday night near Wellsville led to the arrest of a Pennsylvania man on multiple charges, state police in Amity reported.
A Rochester man was arrested Thursday on felony charges after Buffalo police responded to a domestic violence call in the 400 block of Normal Avenue on Buffalo's Lower West Side.
Police charged Jayquan Montgomery, 22, with second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree unlawful dealing with fireworks and second-degree harassment.
Three teenagers charged with breaking into cars in Orchard Park.
Deputies charged 18-year-old Carson J. Boos with third-degree fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, reckless driving, operating a motor vehicle after consuming alcohol while under the age of 21, driving with ability impaired by alcohol and numerous other traffic infractions.
Demont Coston, 56, faces a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $1 million fine when he returns for sentencing July 11 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer.
Neil McCarthy, 25, of Oregon, was escorted off the plane by Niagara Frontier Transit Authority Police at Gate 2 and charged by criminal complaint with indecent exposure.