Amherst · Sweet Home Road · Road Rage

Firearm Pointed in Sweet Home Road Road-Rage Call — Same Plate as the UB Gunpoint Threat

An Amherst complainant said a driver in a silver Infiniti aimed a gun at him; the plate matched the one logged by campus police minutes away.

Yesterday at 9:19 PM, Amherst dispatch relayed a road-rage complaint in which, as a dispatcher put it, “It was a Silver Infinity pointed firearm at the complainant” pointed at the complainant along Sweet Home Road, with the driver's direction of travel unknown. The plate given for the vehicle — George Robert Nancy 4352 — matches the New York plate GRN 4352 that UB Campus PD logged minutes earlier on the gunpoint threat at the Maple Road movie theater, and the two calls appear to describe the same driver.

Amherst units worked the area and, a short time later, a car reported it had never seen the vehicle pass southbound on Sweet Home Road. The overlapping plate, timeline and geography strongly suggest a single armed driver moving between the two scenes.

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Buffalo · Massachusetts Avenue · Death Investigation

Man Found Dead on a Massachusetts Avenue Third Floor, Homicide and Narcotics Called In

Buffalo units requested a rescue and then investigators after officers reported a deceased male at 336 Massachusetts.

Yesterday at 3:26 PM, Buffalo police pressed available Bravo cars toward 336 Massachusetts, third floor, where officers said they had found a male deceased. Dispatch repeatedly paged for a car to respond for a rescue coming in at the address.

The call quickly moved from a rescue run to a death investigation, with homicide and narcotics units requested to the third-floor scene. The circumstances of the man's death were not stated on the air.

Buffalo · Roma Lane · Rape Report

Rape Reported Off Roma Lane, Named Suspect Fled by Bicycle Toward East Sullivan

A woman reported an assault less than an hour old; residents told officers the suspect had ridden off on a bike.

Early this morning at 2:07 AM, Buffalo police dispatched cars to 7-8 Roma Lane for a reported rape, with dispatch naming the suspect on the air as a person identified as Aaron Porter, said to be currently on Stevens. The complainant, described as a 33-year-old female, reported the assault had happened less than an hour earlier.

As officers worked the scene, dispatch relayed that residents on the street said the suspect had just gone toward East Sullivan on a bicycle, with an unknown direction of travel from there. Because the transmission was clear and the name was broadcast on the record, it is reported here with that caution.

Buffalo · Niagara Square · Pursuit

High-Speed Convoy of BMWs Runs From Police, Ends in Traffic Stops Near Niagara Square

Officers tracked one black and two white BMWs flying into Niagara Square before stops were made and one person was taken into custody.

Early this morning, a black BMW first took off from officers near Pearl Street eastbound around 2:31 AM, bearing plate LWH9335. Minutes later, at 2:34 AM, dispatch put out an officer-safety warning that “one black BMW, two white BMWs, entering Niagara Square right now, hiring a speed” were entering Niagara Square at high speed, flying past Milwaukee before one turned east on Carolina at a high rate of speed.

Officers made traffic stops as the cars scattered, with one stop set near Niagara and West Milwaukee. By roughly 2:36 AM units reported everyone was fine and one person was in custody, closing out a brief but chaotic downtown chase.

Amherst · Tonawanda Creek Road · Domestic Assault

Domestic Assault on Tonawanda Creek Road: Woman Thrown to Ground With Children Present

A caller reported a man put his hands on a woman and threw her down; she was left in the driveway with her children.

Yesterday at 9:28 PM, Amherst police were dispatched to a domestic assault at 2940 Tonawanda Creek Road, where dispatch said a male had put his hands on a female and thrown her to the ground. The woman was reported in the driveway with her children as officers responded.

Amherst · Sweet Home Road · Domestic

Husband Punches Wife in the Face, Drawing Blood, on Sweet Home Road

Amherst units were sent to a domestic where a woman was reported bleeding after being struck.

Yesterday at 8:54 PM, Amherst police responded to a domestic at 852 Sweet Home Road, where dispatch reported a husband had punched his wife in the face and left her bleeding. It was one of two violent Amherst domestics inside the same hour, alongside the Tonawanda Creek Road assault.

Amherst · Fair Green Drive · Child Assault Report

Nine-Year-Old Calls Police, Says Mother's Boyfriend Put Hands on Him

The child's call brought Amherst officers to Fair Green Drive for an assault investigation.

Yesterday at 6:41 PM, a nine-year-old child called Amherst police from 33 Fair Green Drive to report that his mother's boyfriend had put hands on him, prompting an assault investigation. Officers worked the call into the evening.

Grand Island · South Lane · Assault Injury

Woman Suffers Head Injury in Assault on South Lane, Hot EMS Response

Grand Island crews rushed to an adult female with a head injury from an assault.

Yesterday at 7:18 PM, Grand Island Fire launched a hot EMS response to 151 South Lane, between North Lane and Baseline, for an adult female with a head injury from an assault. Units were on scene within minutes with the patient's status pending.

Jamestown · Tower Street · Armed Larceny

Larceny Suspect Allegedly Threatens Victim With a Handgun on Tower Street

Jamestown police worked a larceny report that dispatch tied to a possible handgun threat and a named suspect.

Yesterday at 5:35 PM, Jamestown police responded to 60 Tower Street for a larceny that dispatch flagged as involving a possible handgun threat, with the suspect identified on the air as a person named David Cosby. The name was broadcast on dispatch and is reported here with that caution.

Hamburg · Water-Can Warfare

Hammer 9 Launches an 'Aggressive Water-Can Attack' — All Hammerheads Back in Service

The fire went out, the pun did not.

Yesterday at 4:36 PM, Hamburg Fire Control put out a dispatch that could have doubled as a superhero recap: “Aggressive water can attack by Hammer 9-1, got the fire out, you can put all hammerheads back in service” — the whole fire knocked down with a single water can. Dispatch confirmed it right back, noting the blaze was out via water can with an aggressive attack from 9-1, everybody in, 1637. In the roster of great small victories, this one gets the belt.

Thruway · The Puddle Mystery

A Half a Tank, a Puddle, and a Dispatcher Doing Detective Work Past Exit 47

Do we send the fire department? First we solve the case of the leak.

Yesterday at 6:45 PM, a Thruway dispatcher tried to size up a gray Chevy Equinox stalled just past exit 47 westbound. The driver reported she'd 'lost some gas,' said she had 'a half a tank' but 'don't know how many gallons that is,' and mostly knew one thing for certain. “All she knows is that there's a puddle underneath her vehicle. I just need to know if we need to send out fire department” As mysteries go, the puddle-under-the-car case demanded answers before anyone rolled a rig.

Hamburg · Trash-Can Alarm

A Smoke Detector in the Trash Sends Big Tree's Crew Right Back to Quarters

The alarm was real. The threat was garbage.

Yesterday at 9:46 PM, Big Tree 9 keyed up with the resolution of an evening call and the calm of a firefighter who has seen everything: “It was a discarded detector found in the trash. Big Tree's back, Amber” With that, the crew was back in service — chased out by a detector that had already been thrown away.

Hamburg · Radio Formalities

'Be All White, Chief' — A Terse Bit of Radio Shorthand for the Ages

Vehicle color, delivered with the gravity of a knighthood.

Yesterday at 10:03 PM, amid the usual plate-and-station clutter of Hamburg PD dispatch, a unit distilled a vehicle description into four words of oddly formal radio poetry: “Be all white, Chief” The plate would follow in a minute; the moment did not need one.

WNY · A Gentle Eviction

Amorous Occupants Advised — Politely — to Relocate and Get Along

The most diplomatic disposition on the overnight wire.

Early this morning around 2:52 AM, a call that could have gone many directions instead resolved with remarkable grace: the occupants were found fornicating, and the advice, per the wire, was simply to relocate and get along. No arrests, no drama — just a courteous request that everyone take it somewhere else.

Amherst · Finger Injury

Amherst Woman, 60, Reported With Possible Finger Amputation on McNair Road

Yesterday at 4:56 PM, Main-Transit and Amherst EMS were sent to 294 McNair Road, between Hershey Court and MacArthur Drive, for a 60-year-old woman initially reported with a finger laceration that dispatch quickly upgraded to a “possible finger amputation”.

Minutes later, however, a responding unit radioed that it “is apparently not an amputation”, tempering the initial call as crews continued toward the scene.

Town of Tonawanda · Gunshot Report

Gunshot Report Near Back Patio Draws Police Back to Crestmount Avenue Address

Yesterday at 7:48 PM, Tonawanda Police dispatch sent units 6 and 51 for a premises check at Crestmount Avenue, Room 142, after a caller reported hearing a gunshot near her back patio.

Radio asked a supervising unit to pull the address's history, noting “we were there on the 3rd, starting from hearing something outside and nothing being there” — an apparent reference to a similar call earlier in the month at the same home.

Officers cleared the address a few minutes later, with no further details broadcast on the air.

Buffalo · Dart Street Fire

Full Assignment Empties Dart Street House Overnight Before Crews Knock Down Fire

Overnight, at 3:20 AM, Buffalo Fire sent a full assignment on channel 2 to Dart Street[*] between Forest Avenue[*] and Bradley Street for a reported structure fire; first-arriving units found a two-and-a-half story frame house with fire showing from the front and stretched an inch-and-three-quarter attack line.

Crews knocked the fire down on the exterior and pushed inside to finish it off as a chief confirmed on the air that “residents are out of the structure”, while another company flagged a car in the driveway whose occupancy status they “could see but not confirm”.

By 3:28 AM engines reported water on the fire on the first floor with “all fire appears to be out”, and truck crews checking the second floor for extension found “no sign of fire on the second floor, no smoke”, allowing companies to begin backing out.

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Buffalo · Fire Damage Tally

Overnight Dart Street Fire Leaves $125,000 in Damage, Two Adults Displaced

Just after 4:00 AM, Buffalo Fire's incident commander gave dispatch the final rundown on the Dart Street[*] blaze: a one-and-a-half story frame house where fire that started in the first-floor living room extended into the second floor, causing $125,000 in damage to the structure and another $50,000 to its contents; crews used three-inch-and-three-quarter lines and 50 feet of ladder, and the cause remained under investigation. Command requested a Red Cross response for two adults displaced by the fire.

The response hit a mechanical snag as it wound down — one engine had to be pulled and swapped out at the shop after its crew reported the rig “wouldn't stay in pump”.

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Buffalo · Highgate Avenue Fire

Yesterday's Highgate Avenue Fire Displaces Three Adults

Yesterday at 3:06 PM, Buffalo Fire Chief 47 called in a working fire at 352 Highgate Avenue, a two-and-a-half story wood frame house, with fire starting on the first floor and dropping down into the basement; crews stretched two-inch-and-three-quarter lines and 30 feet of ladder, causing $15,000 in damage to the building and $5,000 to its contents.

The cause remained under investigation, and the chief said crews had arranged a “Red Cross for three adults”.

Buffalo · Welfare Check

Buffalo Welfare Check Turns Up Caved-In Ceiling, Silent Upstairs Neighbors and a 4-Year-Old Inside

Early this morning, Buffalo police were sent to check the welfare of a family in an East Side apartment building after a downstairs resident called to report water damage from the unit above — she told dispatch “her ceiling caved in”.

The caller said the elderly residents upstairs weren't answering their door, though “you hear someone moving around”, and that a 4-year-old child also lives in the apartment. Units were notified and dispatched to check on the family directly.

Buffalo · Park Shooting Investigation

Witness Accounts Shift as Buffalo Police Chase Description in Park Shooting

Yesterday shortly before 9 PM, Buffalo officers working an earlier shots-fired call near Genesee Street pieced together conflicting witness accounts of the shooter. One witness said the group had left on foot, without a vehicle, heading north through the park.

Radio relayed a first description — “possibly could be a black male, possibly on a bike wearing all gray, from a park” — but the account shifted repeatedly over the next several minutes, briefly adding a second suspect before dispatch settled on a revised version: “possibly black male all in gray and possibly on a bike with two females”.

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Buffalo · Ohio Street Gunfire

Six Shots Reported Near Ohio Street, Two Ambulances Sent

Yesterday around 9:15 PM, Buffalo police units near West Ferry and Grant were pulled off other calls for a gun call at that intersection, arriving to find a man who had allegedly threatened to shoot someone during a dispute; the man reportedly “fitted gun to the mail's hand” but refused to further describe it before hanging up.

Around the same time, dispatch reported two ambulances responding toward the area, and officers asked for a moment to remove a suspect from a patrol car before clearing the call.

Cheektowaga · Suspect Sought

Man Kicks Door, Breaks Window at Garden Road Home Before Fleeing on Foot

Just before 5:34 AM, Cheektowaga Police sent Car 14 to 9 Garden Road after a complainant reported that a man had shown up, kicked the door and broken a window at the house before running off on foot in an unknown direction.

Dispatch relayed a description moments later — “black male, bushy hair, red hoodie, red pants, no weapons” — and identified the man as Travis Smith, born June 9, 1995, said to live on Newburgh Avenue in Buffalo and possibly heading west toward Cleveland.

Additional cars covered the search as officers worked to locate Smith, and dispatch flagged “a warning for both the residents, the male suspect and the female complainant there” on file at the Garden Road address.

Cheektowaga · Airbnb Party

Cheektowaga Airbnb Party Spirals Out of Hand, Guests Frisked at the Door

Overnight, just before 1 AM, Cheektowaga police pulled officers out of roll call after a wave of calls reported an Airbnb party at 90 Aris that had gotten “out of hand, it's very large”, with callers saying “people are being frisked at the door”. Within minutes cars 45 and 43 were on scene, with a third unit responding.

Car 45 radioed that the crowd was large but mostly cooperative, though partygoers were scattering “running through yards” as police worked to clear the property — with no legal grounds to stop anyone, dispatch said the goal was simply getting everyone out. Radio ran a plate on a car blocking the driveway in an attempt to identify who was hosting, tracing it to a woman identified on dispatch as A. McCrayer-Herd, born in 2007, while a separate check worked to track down the property's owner.

Hamburg · Cardiac Arrest

Elderly Hamburg Man's Fall Turns to Cardiac Arrest on Richwood Drive, Crews Call for Manpower

Yesterday at 7:59 PM, Hamburg Fire dispatched Stanton EMS to 4409 Richwood Drive, between the two ends of the county fairgrounds, for a call described on the air as “74-year-old male, fell, head injury, unconscious”.

Engine company Scranton 9 responded shortly after 8:01 PM, radioing that the run had initially gone to AMR out of North Evans before dispatch found a closer town unit to send instead; Sheridan 9 reported on location by 8:03 PM, with Scranton 8 arriving roughly two minutes later.

By 8:06 PM the patient had gone into cardiac arrest, and Hamburg Fire Control radioed for additional manpower to the scene at 4409 Richwood Drive.