Amherst · Main Street · Armed Suspect

An Off-Duty Officer Tracks His Daughter to a Main Street Inn, Says She's Being Held by an Armed Man Wanted in Texas

The Lewiston officer told dispatch he had blocked in his daughter's car and could not reach her, describing the man he was after as carrying extraditable weapons warrants.

Yesterday evening around 9:15 PM, dispatch relayed a complaint at 9370 Main Street, the Village Haven Inn, apartment 131. The complainant — a man identified on the radio as Joel, an off-duty Lewiston police officer — said he had tracked his daughter to the address and believed she was there unwillingly, held by a man identified on dispatch as Joseph Troach, said to have Texas weapons warrants that were extraditable.

The officer told dispatch he had found his daughter's vehicle in the lot and blocked it in with his own, but could not make contact with her and was not even sure she was still at the location. He reported the subject had fled on foot, possibly westbound — described as a Hispanic male around 30 with neck tattoos, in gray shorts, a white T-shirt and a baseball hat.

Responding units were advised the complainant was armed and carrying his identification, and were told to check the area for the man on foot. The call cleared on the radio without a resolution stated on the air.

Cheektowaga / Lancaster · Walden Pond Park · Spinal Injury

A Youth Footballer Goes Down at Walden Pond Park With No Feeling Below the Waist

A player was found face-down and initially unresponsive on the field; crews treated a suspected traumatic spinal injury and carried the boy to the hospital.

Yesterday evening around 7:11 PM, Lancaster fire and ambulance were called to the football field at Walden Pond Park for a player down. The child — reported as a boy of 12 or 13 — was found face-down and initially unresponsive, with no sensation below the waist, before coming around to conscious and breathing.

The traffic carried the markers of a suspected traumatic spinal injury: a careful, sustained multi-unit response on the field rather than a quick lift-and-go. The patient was transported to the hospital, and the units cleared back into service afterward.

Buffalo · Main Street · Domestic

An Intoxicated Man Locks Himself In With Two Small Children as a Gun-in-Home Domestic Unfolds on Main Street

Officers were told the man had put his hands on women in the home, that guns were inside, and that toddlers were present when he came out with a child and then locked the doors.

Early this morning, around 3:20 AM, police were called to a domestic disturbance at 2398 Main Street involving an intoxicated male who was reported to have placed his hands on women inside the home. Dispatch relayed that there were guns in the residence and that two- and three-year-old children were present.

The traffic turned tense when the subject was reported to have come out of the home with one of the children and then locked the doors behind him. The call ran on the radio as an escalating standoff rather than a quick separation, with the safety of the small children at its center.

Buffalo · Genesee Street · Assault Report

A Frantic Caller Reports a Group Attacking His Girlfriend in a Back Stairwell, Flooding an Address With Units

The report near 586 Genesee sent multiple cars as an EMS crew simultaneously worked a young woman having seizures at the same address.

Yesterday just after 11:00 PM, Buffalo police were sent to the area of 586 Genesee on a report from a male caller who said a large group was assaulting his girlfriend in a back stairwell. Multiple units were dispatched on the alarming call.

At the same address and nearly the same minute, Buffalo fire was working a 22-year-old woman reported to be having multiple seizures, with Engine 3 responding. The two threads appear, based on the radio traffic, to be tied to the same location and unfolding together — a chaotic scene that dispatch worked to sort in real time.

Buffalo · Potomac Avenue · Missing Child

An 8-Year-Old Vanishes From a Backyard on Potomac, Sending Officers Fanning Out Within Minutes

The girl had been outside yelling and then couldn't be found; police cleared the house and put out a description as the search began.

Yesterday afternoon at about 3:31 PM, Buffalo police put out a missing-person call for an 8-year-old girl last seen in the backyard of 180 Potomac roughly 10 minutes earlier. Dispatch said she had been outside yelling and then couldn't be found — wearing a polka-dot dress and a white head scarf, and described as about 4-foot-8 and 90 pounds.

Officers moved quickly, clearing the house as part of the search and keeping the description standing on the air. The call read as an urgent, rapid multi-unit response to a small child gone from her own backyard.

Amherst · Maple Road & Old Lyme Drive · Serious MVA

A Two-Car Crash at Maple and Old Lyme Leaves an Elderly Driver Unresponsive and Not Breathing

Getzville and Ellicott Creek crews were toned out to the intersection on a report of one patient down; multiple companies converged.

Yesterday afternoon at about 4:43 PM, Amherst fire dispatch toned out Getzville and Ellicott Creek to a two-car motor vehicle accident at Maple Road and Old Lyme Drive[*], with the call reporting one patient unresponsive — an elderly male described as not breathing.

The dispatch repeated the assignment and pulled in mutual-aid units, with Getzville 93, Ellicott Creek and Twin City ambulances heading to the scene and additional Amherst apparatus responding. The urgent, multi-company muster reflected the gravity of an unresponsive patient at a suburban intersection.

Amherst · Tops Plaza, Maple Road · Vandalism Spree

A Second Wave of Smashed Car Windows at the Maple Road Tops Points to a Spree

Minutes after a BMW's window was smashed and a man fled on foot, two more vehicles turned up damaged in the same lot.

Yesterday evening, Amherst police worked what appears to be a window-smashing spree in the Tops parking lot at 3980 Maple Road[*]. The first call, just after 5:19 PM, reported a white BMW sedan with a smashed window and a white male in his 20s — blonde hair, gray shirt, brown shorts — fleeing on foot.

By about 5:28 PM, the picture had widened into a second incident at the same plaza, with two additional vehicles found with their windows smashed. The clustered damage in a single lot reads as a spree rather than an isolated break-in.

Tonawanda · A Job Well Done

A Loose-Dog Call Ends With the Most Enthusiastic Sign-Off on the Band

An officer runs down a runaway dog's owner and lets the whole channel know exactly how he feels about it.

Yesterday at 5:45 PM, a Tonawanda officer wrapped up a loose-dog follow-up the way most of us finish a small errand — with a quiet little victory lap. First came the businesslike part: I located the owner on time. Then, one beat later and keyed for all to hear, the review: Sexy! A dog reunited, an owner found, and a dispatcher somewhere writing it down with a straight face.

Clarence · Kenyon's Variety Store · ID Check

The Scanner Giveth: Clarence Kids' Fake IDs Undone by an Honest Machine

A clerk named Liz ran the IDs through the scanner — and the scanner, unlike the customers, told the truth.

Yesterday at 8:23 PM, dispatch sent police to Kenyon's Variety Store at 5820 Goodrich in Clarence for a group of would-be buyers packing fake IDs. The twist, as relayed on the air: the clerk, Liz, had already scanned the IDs — and it was the scan that gave the game away, revealing the customers were underage after all. A cautionary tale for anyone who thinks the barcode is just for show.

Buffalo · The Youngest 911 Caller

A Five-Year-Old Phones the Police About a YouTuber While the Grown-Ups Sleep

Somewhere in Buffalo, a preschooler had priorities — and a dial tone.

Yesterday at 9:31 PM, dispatch relayed one of the more charming calls of the night: a five-year-old reporting something about a YouTuber, with the parents fast asleep. No emergency, no crime — just a small citizen with a big concern and unsupervised access to a telephone. The grown-ups, presumably, woke to a story.

Chautauqua County · The Field Party

A Dispatcher Untangles a Seizure Call and Traces It Back to a Party in a Field

Overnight in Chautauqua County, the patient and the party turned out to be one and the same.

Early this morning at 2:58 AM, a Chautauqua dispatcher worked to sort a confusing overnight medical call into place. As she put it plainly on the air, the woman in seizure was believed to be a party in a field — the kind of line that reads like a riddle at three in the morning and makes perfect sense to the crew heading out to find her.

Chautauqua County · Directions by Oil Road

Car 382, Take the Oil Road: A Rural Rendezvous at Wilcox Road

Overnight navigation in Chautauqua County comes with its own vocabulary.

Early this morning at 3:39 AM, a Chautauqua fire crew got the kind of directions that only make sense out in the county at night. Dispatch advised Car 382 that the caller was sending someone up the oil road to meet them at Wilcox Road — a hand-off point for a hard-to-reach call, delivered in the plain shorthand of people who know exactly which unmarked road you mean.

Tonawanda · Decatur Street

Garbage Can Hurled at Park Bathroom Where Four Girls Hid During Standoff With Group of Males

Yesterday at 4:18 PM, Tonawanda Police dispatch relayed that a group of males had thrown liquid at a group of females barricaded in a park restroom near Decatur Street, then gathered under a nearby pavilion to wait for the women to come out.

Minutes later, dispatch advised that the males had escalated, reporting “they threw a large garbage can into the bathroom”; officers were told four young women were “hiding in the large stall in the bathroom so they're scared to come out”, while the group outside — described as several males on foot and on bicycles, some in white T-shirts — scattered before patrol arrived.

Lancaster · Weatherfield Lane

Lancaster Officers Separate Couple After Husband Threatens Wife With Knife on Weatherfield Lane

Yesterday at 9:11 PM, Lancaster Police were sent to a home on Weatherfield Lane after a report that a husband had threatened his wife with a knife during an argument.

Officers arrived and separated the two parties; no injuries or arrest were confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window before the channel moved on shortly after 9:14 PM.

North Buffalo Street

Convicted Felon Named as Assailant in Third-Floor Apartment Fight on North Buffalo Street

Just before 4:07 AM, radio traffic sent units to a third-floor apartment on North Buffalo Street[*] [heard: North Buffalo] for two men fighting, described as unknown intoxication with no known weapons; the complainant, identified on the radio as Mason, said a man identified as Daniel Diermeier had come to the apartment and assaulted him.

A responding unit noted Diermeier is a convicted felon with prior history at the address, recalling a 2014 call to his garage that was “highly intoxicated, almost turned into a SWAT call”.

Dispatch added the confrontation stemmed from an earlier argument between Diermeier's daughter and the complainant; the subject was reported locked in one of the rooms until additional units arrived, and by 4:13 AM the scene was described on the air as calm.

Southtowns · Savage Road

Single-Car Crash on Savage Road Draws Multiple Units, Driver Named on Air

Just after 12:41 AM, radio traffic monitored on the Mercy Flight channel reported an injury accident at 11899 Savage Road, described as a single vehicle still sitting in the middle of the roadway, with units identified as 4 East and 4 West responding.

Minutes later, a caller identified the driver over the air as Steven Trinkle, described only as “known to the police”; no further information on injuries or transport was confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Wyoming County · Traber Road

Neighbor Dispute Over Dog on Traber Road Escalates to Threat Involving a Gun

Yesterday at 5:33 PM, Wyoming County Sheriff's dispatch reported a dispute at a Traber Road address, where a caller identified on the air as Darren Edwards said he was in an ongoing disagreement with a neighbor identified only as Richard over the neighbor's dog being on Edwards' property.

Dispatch advised responding units that Richard had “threatened to go get his gun and come back to Darren's house”, sending deputies to the address.

Cattaraugus County · Hardy Corners Road

Crews Sent to Reported Cabin Fire on Hardy Corners Road

Just after 5:29 AM, Cattaraugus County Sheriff's dispatch radioed unit 4-5 to head toward 1850 Hardy Corners Road on a report of a cabin on fire; the extent of the fire and whether anyone was displaced were not detailed further in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Jamestown · Motorcycle Theft

Pepper-Sprayed Thief Tracked by GPS as Stolen Motorcycle Rolls Out of Jamestown

At 5:18 PM, Jamestown Police Dispatch entered a call for a motorcycle just stolen from outside the police station; the owner pepper sprayed the suspect before he got away with the bike loaded onto a trailer. Dispatch broadcast a suspect vehicle description — a black Jeep pulling a trailer, plate 20-AG74, with a black Honda Ruckus in back.

Dispatch confirmed “she pepper sprayed the suspect and they took off” as GPS tracking on the stolen motorcycle gave units a running trail — the locator pinging near East 2nd Street before showing the Jeep continuing out of the city on North Main Street, headed toward 18th Street; officers asked whether State Police could pick up the pursuit as it left Jamestown city limits.

Jamestown · Welfare Check

Jamestown Staff Intervene as Despondent Woman Found With Cord Around Neck

Yesterday evening around 9:17 PM, Jamestown Police responded to a report of a despondent woman found with a cord around her neck; staff on scene intervened before officers arrived and got emergency care started.

No further detail on the woman's condition was given on the air by 9:25 PM, when the channel moved on to other calls.