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Robert S. Riggs, 54, pleaded guilty in July to one count of first-degree sexual abuse.

According to the police report, the juvenile was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat, a Class D felony, and released to the custody of his parents.

“There is a problem with systemic racism at every level, it appears, with the Buffalo Police Department,” said Anjana Malhotra, a senior attorney with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice

Chautauqua County Court Judge David Foley additionally sentenced Bless Grant, 29, also known as "Bam Bam," to three years in prison plus five years of supervision on the earlier charge. 

Michaela K. Gardner, 63, was charged with two counts of driving while intoxicated and ticketed for speeding, according to a police report.

Willie N. Henley, a man shot by Buffalo police in September 2020, is being released into a probation-like program after being found competent to stand trial.

Judge Peter J. Savage III issued the order for the mental health evaluation during Jeremy Griffin's court appearance Tuesday morning.

A Buffalo man was arraigned Sunday before Buffalo City Court Judge Peter J. Savage on two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.

A Cheektowaga man pleaded guilty Monday in Erie County Court to one count of second-degree vehicular manslaughter and one count of driving while ability impaired by a drug in connection with a fatal crash, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.

An employee of an Amherst smoke shop has been accused of restraining, attacking and robbing a customer last week.

The FBI's Buffalo Office on Monday announced a reward of up to $25,000 for anyone who can help identify the two people responsible for the firebombing of an anti-abortion center in Eggertsville.

Angel Flores, of Sweet Avenue, was charged last week after federal agents raided his home in the Broadway-Fillmore area, according to documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Buffalo.

The shooting happened shortly before 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the first block of Congressional Walk, in the area of the Langfield Homes, near Eggert Road and the Kensington Expressway.

A Buffalo man was shot and critically injured Saturday in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, police said.

The Buffalo SWAT team found "a loaded Pioneer Arms Corp. AK-47 style rifle with several loaded high capacity magazines and a loaded Sig Sauer handgun with several magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition ... "

Buffalo police released video segments from two security cameras taken inside and outside the Alba de Vida substance abuse treatment clinic on Virginia Street from Thursday morning when a man armed with an AR-15 burst into the waiting room.

A 21-year-old woman is listed in critical condition at Erie County Medical Center after receiving multiple gunshot wounds Thursday at a house in the 2700 block of Falls Street in Niagara Falls

The felony charge against Andrew J. Marsh was dropped as part of a plea agreement in which Marsh admitted to misdemeanor drug possession, according to his attorney and Erie County Court records.

Jeremy A. Griffin, 48, of Williamsville was arraigned on multiple charges in the back-to-back incidents: attempted murder, reckless endangerment and weapons possession.

A Cheektowaga man whose car a retired Buffalo police detective tried to take from an impound lot was sentenced Thursday to 3½ years in prison for drug possession, Erie County prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors on Thursday released the name of the man accused of throwing a brick into the front window of the FBI's Buffalo office a day earlier.

A Buffalo man who fatally shot a teenager inside the man's Fisher Street home in March was sentenced Thursday in Erie County Court to one to three years in prison, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.