Crime

Buffalo Police arrested and charged a second suspect Thursday in the murder of an Airport Taxi cab driver. 55-year-old Mazen Abdallah was shot to death inside his cab on Norfolk In March. 16-year-old Sean Austin of Buffalo was arraigned on murder and robbery charges in Erie County Court. 

A Kenmore tavern owner was found murdered in his home Sunday morning. Police say 62-year-old Vincent "Jim" Cottone was discovered in his home around 11 a.m. Sunday at 21 Landers Road.

An admitted violent criminal is off the streets. Antoine Garner was sentenced to 18 years in prison in three separate cases in Erie County Court Tuesday morning.

A convicted child molester was sentenced to the maximum 15 to 30 years in prison Friday in Niagara County Court.

An Erie County Grand Jury has indicted a 34-year-old woman in connection with the 2010 death of her 8-year-old daughter. 

West Seneca Police are investigating the murder of a 77-year-old woman.  Detectives say the body of Carol Quinn was discovered in her apartment on Burch Place located not far from the city line. 

A Buffalo man accused in the brutal attack on a puppy last year has pleaded guilty as charged.

Two of the four men accused of killing a couple in their rural Chautauqua County home are now charged with first-degree murder, but prosecutors have yet to say how the victims died. 

A former star football player at South Park High School has been charged with the murder of a taxi cab driver in the City of Buffalo. 

An arrest has been made in a murder that took place nearly a year ago in Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Buffalo.

Authorities say four men have been arrested in connection with a home invasion that left a Southern Tier couple dead.

The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department is investigating the discovery of two bodies Wednesday in the Town of Carroll, southeast of Jamestown.

More arrests were made Wednesday as local law enforcement officers continue their crackdown on gang activity in Buffalo.

The city of Buffalo will be holding another gun buy back program in May.  The  city will be paying people for every gun they turn in.