Buffalo · Olympic & Doris · Shots Fired

Five to Seven Shots Rake a Car Near Olympic and Doris, Striking the Driver's Side

A vehicle was hit as it turned off Olympic overnight; a woman stood outside her car unhurt while officers worked an agency-assist scene, later tracing a broken-down silver Mustang onto the I-90.

Around 2:00 AM, Buffalo police worked a shots-fired scene near the Olympic intersection, where a vehicle had been struck as it was “turning off Olympic onto Doris”. Approximately five to seven shots were reported, with the driver's side taking the impact. A woman connected to the scene was reported outside her car and alright, standing by while units moved in and cars staged for cover.

The traffic carried the coordinated shuffle of an escalating call — one unit rolling A, another rolling B, cars logging into engine crews, and an agency assist put back in play. A related transmission not long before had tracked a silver Mustang, struck near Olympic and Kensington, broken down on the I-90 eastbound near the I-33 split, drawing in Cheektowaga units alongside the city.

Buffalo · Elm & Williams · Entrapment

A Driver Is Pinned After a Two-Victim Crash at Elm and Williams, Prompting an Extended Extrication

Buffalo Fire rescue crews worked to free two people from a wrecked vehicle overnight, pulling one out before turning back to the entrapped driver.

Just after 12:28 AM, Buffalo Fire was dispatched to a motor vehicle accident at Elm and Williams with possible entrapment, two victims reported and the driver pinned in the wreck. Rescue was put en route as crews sized up the scene.

By 12:41 AM the traffic reported one patient removed from the vehicle, with the driver still entrapped — the mark of an extended extrication as crews worked to peel the wreck apart and reach the second victim.

Cheektowaga · Barber Place · Burglary

A Man Crawls Through a Garage Window Into an Occupied Barber Place Home as the Family Is Inside

A mother reported that a male broke in through the garage window and fled upstairs while the family was present, touching off a pre-dawn burglary call.

Between 2:50 AM and 3:00 AM, Cheektowaga police worked a burglary on 103 Barber Place in which, per dispatch, a male had crawled through a garage window and fled upstairs — the mother reporting the suspect broke in while the family was present in the house. Units were pushed to the scene through the small hours as the department also juggled a loud commercial truck complaint behind Walmart and a 941 mental-health transport.

Amherst · Highland · Extortion

A Woman Says Her Boyfriend Is Extorting Money During a Breakup, and Dispatch Flags Him for Violent Tendencies

Amherst officers were sent to a Highland address early this morning on a hysterical caller who said the man was demanding money before he would leave; a records check showed an out-of-state felony flag.

At 3:10 AM, Amherst police were sent to 226 Highland on a hysterical female caller who said she was trying to break up with her boyfriend and that, per dispatch, “he's extorting her out of money” before he would go. A second officer was assigned to cover as units headed over.

By the time officers arrived, dispatch reported the man was aware they were coming, with no intoxication and no weapons, and that the two were separated — he in the living room, she in the kitchen. A records check added a caution: he was showing an F2 felony out of Ohio, non-extraditable, but flagged for “violent tendencies just for, well, for safety”. One officer noted he thought he had been to the address the other day.

Amherst · Hotel · Bloodied Woman

A Woman Covered in Blood Turns Up With Two Children and a Male at an Amherst Hotel

Officers staged EMS late yesterday evening after a report of a woman covered in blood at a hotel, accompanied by a male and two children.

Just before midnight, Amherst police were drawn to a hotel where a female was reported covered in blood, in the company of a male and two children. Dispatch staged EMS while officers moved on the scene. The radio traffic conveyed only the initial report; no further detail on the source of the blood or the outcome crossed the air before the window closed.

Amherst · Springville / Princeton · Assault

An Armed Group of Four to Five Jumps a Man Near Springville and Princeton

Amherst police worked a fight call overnight in which a man was reportedly set upon by two males, one of them armed, near the Springville corridor.

Around 1:10 AM, Amherst police were pulled into a fight call near Springville and Princeton involving four to five people, with a man reported jumped by two others and at least one suspect described as armed. Units worked the area off information relayed over the air.

The traffic carried a suspect description built in pieces — one male with dreadlocks, wearing a hoodie with what sounded like white patterns on it — as officers combed the corridor. The details came in fragmentary bursts, the shape of a scene still coming together as the search went on.

Cheektowaga · Hughes to Harlem · Pursuit

A Triple-Digit-Speed Pursuit Runs From Hughes to Harlem Before Dawn

Cheektowaga units reported a vehicle fleeing westbound on Hughes at high speed and southbound on Harlem, with triple-digit speeds called over the air.

Around 4:17 AM, Cheektowaga police reported a vehicle pursuit running westbound on Hughes at high speed and turning southbound onto Harlem, with triple-digit speeds relayed over the air. The pre-dawn chase threaded quiet residential streets before the traffic moved on.

Grand Island · The Bogey Building

The Case of the Bogey Building

A false alarm at the golf-course restaurant sent dispatch and the alarm company into a par-for-the-course round of location confusion.

Late yesterday afternoon, a smoke detector tripped in a bathroom at the Beaver Island Golf Course restaurant — a plain false alarm, no hazard, units back in service. The comedy was all in the paperwork: the alarm company kept insisting the trouble was at "the bogey building," leaving a Grand Island dispatcher to clarify, more than once, that the fairway hazard in question was in fact the golf-course eatery. A smoke detector, a grill, and a name that wrote itself.

Buffalo · Not a Domestic

The Great Cat Food Reconciliation

What came in as a domestic turned out to be a household united — the missing cat food had simply been found.

Yesterday evening, a Buffalo unit checked in on a call and delivered one of the more disarming all-clears of the shift: “This was not a domestic. They were able to find the cat food”. Whatever the argument had sounded like from outside, the crisis dissolved the moment the pantry gave up its secret — the cat, at least, would not be going hungry, and radio put the call back in service.

Amherst · The McDonald's Meal Ticket

A Meal Ticket, No Questions Asked

An Amherst officer got a polite dispatch errand: swing by the station and grab a McDonald's meal ticket.

Yesterday evening, dispatch flagged down an Amherst officer with the sort of request that never makes the incident log: “Can you stop out at the station and pick up a meal ticket for McDonald's”. The officer's reply — a bemused "What's that for?" — is the whole joke, the small domestic machinery of a shift briefly surfacing on the open air.

Tonawanda · Let It Wear Itself Out

A Chief Hits a Garbage Can and Lets Fate Take It From There

The cause of the early-morning smoke-detector call turned out to be an old detector in the trash — and a small vehicular mishap that command decided to simply ride out.

Early this morning, a Tonawanda Town crew traced a smoke-detector complaint to its humble source — an old detector tossed in the garbage at 96 Oakridge, no fire, nothing to it. What made the tape was the chief's candid aside as they wrapped: “I've just hit a garbage can. It buries the garbage somewhere. We're going to let it just wear itself out”. No harm, no hose line, just a man, a garbage can, and a philosophy of graceful acceptance before 6:00 AM.

Olean · The Snack Run

Natty Daddies, Twisted Teas, and a Little Dog Food

Amid a detain-and-clear scene, an Olean officer offered up the evening's full menu for anyone making a store run.

Yesterday evening, with one male detained and a juvenile being driven home, an Olean officer keyed up with a shopping list that read less like a police log than a corner-store inventory: “if somebody wants to go to the store, see what they want here, we have a bunch of Natty Daddies, Twisted Teas, some dog food”. By the end of the sequence a unit was cheerfully pushing a cart of the items back up to the store — a small, absurdly human coda to an otherwise routine night.

Williamsville · Pediatric Medical Call

Multi-Unit Response Sent for 7-Year-Old With Chest Pain at Sheridan Drive Gas Station

Yesterday at 9:45 PM, Amherst Fire dispatched an EMS call to Sheridan Drive at Crosby's gas station, between Cranbourne and Frankhauser, for a 7-year-old boy with chest pain and a cardiac history.

A dispatcher identified as Carl relayed the call details as AmeriCorps, Williamsville, Winslow, and Amherst Center units all radioed in responding, with the child expected to be moved by a Buffalo-bound transport ambulance.

Newstead · Rollover With Extrication

Rollover With Extrication Pulls Newstead Crews Into Overnight Response Near Stage Road

At 5:12 AM, Amherst Fire dispatched a rollover with extrication to Stage Road, between North Ayers Road and the town border, sending first-due units into the field for a vehicle reported to have flipped.

Dispatch subsequently redirected the response to the rear of 12958 Steiner Road, describing the wreck as resting between the Thruway and a cornfield, and held Newstead's units in quarters until Rescue 5 was sent to the scene.

Buffalo · Knife Threat

Man Waving Knife at Crowd on Tonawanda Street Fled Toward Hertel in Black Jeep

Yesterday at 10:49 PM, Buffalo Police units were sent to Tonawanda Street for a report of a man swinging a knife at people; callers had initially said he had a gun before the report was amended to a knife.

The man got into a black Jeep last seen heading toward Hertel Avenue, and dispatch broadcast a partial plate to units as officers searched the area; no arrest was confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Buffalo · Broadway-Bailey

Children Maced by Stranger Near Broadway and Bailey, Suspects Fled in Gray Car

Yesterday at 8:00 PM, Buffalo Police were sent to Broadway and Bailey Avenue after a bystander reported “children were maced by someone”, with the suspects last seen in a gray vehicle.

A follow-up transmission had units checking the Rite Aid parking lot between Bailey and Gatchell, but the caller had no further information on where the suspect had gone.

Buffalo · Lafayette Avenue

Friend Pleads by Phone for Woman to Leave Violent Domestic on Lafayette Avenue

Yesterday at 11:12 PM, Buffalo Police dispatch sent units to a violent domestic at 998 Lafayette Avenue, with a friend of the woman involved on the phone with dispatchers urging her to get out of the residence.

Officers acknowledged they were still some distance from the address as the call continued, with dispatch noting the domestic was ongoing as units made their way there.

Depew · Possible Hit-and-Run

Depew Police Search for Man Possibly Struck by Car, Last Seen Limping East on Walden Avenue

Yesterday at 11:45 PM, Depew Police sent a patrol to the 3200 block of Walden Avenue, on the north side of the street between Princeton Avenue and West 3rd Street, after a 911 hang-up call in which the caller reported believing a man had been hit by a car and could be heard arguing with someone.

An officer on scene said a man they had dealt with before was not involved — he had only been yelling at someone on the phone — and described another man last seen walking east on the south side of Walden Avenue in a white sweatshirt with what looked like a limp, though it could not be determined if he was bleeding or his race; dispatch told units that man was the one they were trying to locate as possibly struck.

Cheektowaga · Domestic Incident

Woman Accused of Smashing Phone Over Boyfriend's Head in Highland Road Domestic Dispute

Yesterday at 10:40 PM, Cheektowaga Police sent a patrol north on Highland Road, between Airport Road and the Depew village line, after a woman called 911 to report her boyfriend was upset that she had gone to dinner with an ex-boyfriend.

The man called back moments later and told dispatchers the woman was refusing to get out of his truck in his driveway and had “smashed her phone over his head repeatedly”; additional units were sent to the address, and one officer said he would file for a warrant.

Wyoming County · Welfare Check

Deputies Rushed to Wyoming County Home After Man Threatens to Hang Himself in Garage

Yesterday at 7:15 PM, Wyoming County Sheriff's dispatch sent a deputy to 26 Northridge Drive after a report that a man identified on dispatch as Christopher was threatening to hang himself in the garage, stemming from an incident at the residence earlier in the day.

Salamanca · Traffic Stop

Salamanca Traffic Stop Escalates After Officer Reports Intoxicated Man Holding a Child

Yesterday at 7:54 PM, a Salamanca officer conducting a traffic stop on Brockton Street radioed for another car, reporting the man he had stopped appeared to be intoxicated and was holding a child, and dispatch pulled a unit off break to back up the scene.

New York State Thruway · Child Abuse Report

Trooper Sent to Thruway Service Area After Report of Parents Striking Children in Lobby

Yesterday at 6:58 PM, New York State Thruway dispatch sent a trooper to the Scottsdale service area after a caller reported an Indian male and Indian female had “dragged their kids into the lobby of the service area and are apparently hitting them” inside the building.

Dispatch broadcast a description of the family's vehicle, a 2026 white Toyota Sienna with a New Jersey plate, to units in the area; no confirmation of a stop or resolution came over the channel in the segment reviewed for this window.

Western New York · Welfare Check

Two Children Left Alone as Mother's Disappearance Raises Alarm Over Parolee Companion

Yesterday at 9:30 PM, a dispatcher relayed a welfare complaint from a woman identified as Stacey Cordova at 3325 Wallace, reporting that a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were alone at the residence after the children's mother left home the previous Friday. Relatives told the dispatcher they believe the mother is with a man who has abused her in the past, and separate radio traffic identified a man named Darryl as out on parole for second-degree murder.

Units confirmed they were clear of the residence a few minutes later and were then sent to a second address to try to make direct contact with the mother.