Police Blotter
Judge wants sex offender referred to state program
LOCKPORT—Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza said Thursday that a North Tonawanda man due to be released from state prison in January should be referred to the state’s civil confinement program for sex offenders. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:48 AM )
Landlord arraigned on marijuana charges
LOCKPORT—The owner of a rental house in Cambria was arraigned Friday in Niagara County Court on marijuana charges that arose when police visited the property in response to a 911 call that turned out to be erroneous, Assistant District Attorney Peter M. Wydysh said. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:48 AM )
Falls man faces prison after plea on drug sale
LOCKPORT—John M. Davis, 27, of Niagara Avenue, Niagara Falls, faces up to 2 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to selling cocaine to undercover police. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:48 AM )
Rochester man enters guilty plea to burglary
LOCKPORT—A Rochester man who burglarized a Lockport apartment May 8 and hauled the loot away in a stolen car pleaded guilty Friday in Niagara County Court. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:48 AM )
Prosecutor’s illness stalls sexual assault trial
LOCKPORT—The flu bug has caused an interruption in a Niagara County Court sexual assault trial in which Mark K. Goupil faces a possible life prison sentence if convicted. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:48 AM )
Second-time felon gets 4 years in prison
LOCKPORT—A Niagara Falls man was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for drug possession. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:48 AM )
Car dealership owner admits state tax fraud
Renzo Tiburzi, the owner of a Buffalo car dealership, pleaded guilty Friday to cheating the state out of $220,815.83 in sales tax receipts after opening his business almost six years ago. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM )
Traffic stop results in gun seizure, 2 arrests
A gun was wrestled from a woman’s hands during a traffic stop Thursday in Buffalo, state police said. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM )
37-month term imposed on admitted drug seller
Admitted drug seller Terrance Gidney, 36, of Buffalo, was sentenced Friday to three years and one month in federal prison. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM )
Ex-bookkeeper admits animal hospital theft
Deborah L. Newton admitted Thursday stealing $750,000 from the Sheridan Small Animal Hospital where she worked as a bookkeeper for two decades. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM )
Teen’s hospitality ends in gun, marijuana arrest
A Buffalo teenager invited police into a house he was staying in on Grote Street when they showed up looking for an individual wanted on an arrest warrant Thursday. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM )
Man admits illegal tap into natural gas line
An Orchard Park man has admitted that he illegally tapped into a natural gas line, police reported. (Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM )
Portville man indicted on charges in kidnapping
LITTLE VALLEY—A Portville man charged with kidnapping, who was released from jail recently because his case was not prosecuted within the time limit, has been indicted on the charge by a Cattaraugus County grand jury. (Updated: 11/06/09 6:59 AM )
Slashing of four outside bar brings five-year term
A Military Road man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison on his guilty plea to slashing four people with a box cutter during an argument outside a Riverside bar at about 3 a. m. Feb. 16, 2008. (Updated: 11/06/09 6:59 AM )
Ex-teacher is rated a Level 3 sex offender
LOCKPORT—Jason A. Lorich, the former North Tonawanda elementary school teacher who sexually abused some of his female students, was rated a Level 3 sex offender, the most serious type, in a brief proceeding Thursday in Niagara County Court. (Updated: 11/06/09 6:59 AM )
