Crime

Crime

A Cheektowaga man has been arraigned on one count of second-degree murder in the Sunday shooting death of a woman who worked at a 7-Eleven store on French Road.

Police say a homeowner exchanged gunfire during a home invasion and one suspect was later found dead.

The U.S. Marshals Service has announced the arrest of a convicted felon who escaped from a halfway house in Rochester.

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A Niagara Falls City School District employee is accused of setting the district’s maintenance garage on fire just hours after being told he was being moved to a lower-paying job.


U.S. Attorney's Office

Two years of investigation and nearly a dozen search warrants in Buffalo and adjacent communities have led to a major drug bust and four arrests, including former University at Buffalo basketball star Rodney Pierce.

New York State Police

New York State Police say they plan to go forward with a body camera pilot program for state troopers.

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP

The family of an inmate who killed himself at an Erie County prison is suing over his death.

U.S. Attorney's Office

A U.S. District Court jury has found a Buffalo gang member guilty of two murders near the Towne Gardens Apartments on Buffalo's East Side.

A Forestville woman has pleaded guilty to stealing from the accounts of her elderly customers while working as a local bank teller.

A traffic stop sparked a raid on a Madison Street home in Buffalo that resulted in the seizure of nearly 1.5 kilos of cocaine, drug paraphernalia, six loaded handguns, ammunition, an unknown amount of counterfeit bills and more than $40,000 in U.S. currency.

Omar Fetouh

A former City of Buffalo program coordinator and pastor who worked with young people pleaded guilty Thursday to felony sex abuse.

Twitter

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a Rochester-area man has been charged with threatening to kill New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and California Rep. Adam Schiff.

Boy Scouts of America

The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy Tuesday under the weight of hundreds of childhood sexual abuse cases filed against the organization. Seattle-based attorney Jason Amala, who is handling 75 cases in New York, said the news is a mixed bag for his clients.


A judge has found a Buffalo man guilty of two counts of murder for the shooting deaths of a 54-year-old woman and her toddler grandson.

Town of Tonawanda Police have released a timeline of the events that led to a six-vehicle crash Friday night at Military Road and Sheridan Drive that killed two people.

The woman wanted by Niagara Falls police for abandoning her 10-month-old son at the Seneca Niagara Casino hotel last month has been arrested.

Boy Scouts of America

The bankruptcy filing by the Boy Scouts of America does not affect the Scouts' Greater Niagara Frontier Council.

Crime Stoppers

The Erie County Sheriff's Office is looking for help to identify how a child was shot in the Town of Collins.

MIke Desmond / WBFO News

Orchard Park Middle School may be closed this week for the winter holiday, but Monday night it was filled with police, firefighters, EMTs and actors playing screaming shooting victims as part of an active shooter drill.

**WARNING** This story contains sounds of simulated violence, which may be disturbing to some listeners


A woman who says she was raped by late Buffalo R&B singer Rick James when she was 15 years old is suing his estate for $50 million in damages.

Mike Desmond

Federal prosecutors say a local seminary instructor went over the free speech line when he made a series of threatening cell phone calls to a Buffalo reporter.


A Buffalo man who admitted to killing a dog while working as an animal daycare attendant in August is in trouble again.

A Buffalo woman has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing her boyfriend, as jury selection for her trial was about to begin.

A Buffalo man was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for the 2018 murder of Santana Anderson, a 26-year-old mother of two from Buffalo.

Mike Desmond / WBFO News

The law enforcement establishment of Western New York says a series of new state criminal laws that took effect the first of the year are a mistake and should be repealed or replaced.

WNY child porn prosecutions rise over 50% in recent years

Feb 6, 2020
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Prosecution for people producing, distributing or possessing child pornography spiked last year in Western New York.

Between 2015 and 2018, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Western New York handled an average of 38 cases annually. Last year, that number spiked to 58. They only take on the most egregious of these crimes. The others go to local district attorney offices. Prosecutions by the Erie County District Attorney also increased last year.

As part of their partnership with WBFO, Investigative Post's Ali Ingersoll reports.


The death of a Buffalo infant last September has been ruled a homicide.

Social Security Administration

The Social Security Administration has launched a new public service announcement campaign to fight a growing nationwide scheme.

Karen Dewitt / WBFO Albany Correspondent

The fight over recently enacted bail reform heated up at the Capitol on Tuesday, with dueling events by police and activists that at times centered on charges of racism surrounding a Facebook page that calls for the law to be repealed.


NYS Police

A Hamburg native has been appointed commander of the State Police Troop A operations for the eight counties of Western New York and more than 400 sworn and civilian personnel.

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