Amherst · Sheridan Drive at Domino's · Missing Child
Good Samaritans corralled a five-or-six-year-old boy near Domino's; officers spent 30 minutes and five languages trying to find where he lived.
At 9:33 AM, Amherst officers were sent toward Domino's at 3563 Sheridan Drive, near Buckeye and Ivyhurst, for what dispatch described as “a 5-6 year old running around the street naked”. A white Hyundai's occupants stayed with the child until police arrived, and officers located him within minutes.
The boy, described as of South East Asian descent and appearing nonverbal and autistic, could not tell officers where he lived. What followed was a patient, department-wide effort: a supervisor sent out an email with the child's photo, ran him against wandering-persons alerts, and — as one officer put it, after crews “tried people from five different languages, he's not communicating with any of them” — walked him block by block through the Spruce and Buckeye neighborhoods hoping he could point out his home. Officers eventually checked an Airbnb on Buckeye that appeared occupied by a large family. The call cleared shortly after 10:06 AM with the child safe.
Cheektowaga · 21 St. Joan Lane · Armed Domestic
ONGOINGA domestic on St. Joan Lane escalated to a knife threat, with a woman barricaded in a bedroom.
At 12:35 PM, Cheektowaga police were sent to 21 St. Joan Lane for a violent domestic in which a husband was reported armed with butcher knives and threatening to kill the family. The wife had locked herself in a bedroom as officers responded.
Buffalo · 47 Keystone · Armed Subjects
ONGOINGA gun call sent Buffalo cars racing to Keystone, where a man with a pistol on his hip stood in front of a gray SUV.
At 2:05 PM, a gun call went out for 47 Keystone, where dispatch relayed that three males were outside the caller's house and one had a black 9mm. Charlie 241 broke off another assignment to head over, and cars stacked up on the address.
Moments later, dispatch updated the description: the man with the gun was wearing a white tee and gray sweatpants with the pistol on his hip, standing in front of a gray SUV. A supervisor told units to “hold in the air for Keystone” as the response converged on the block.
West Seneca · Route 400 · Stolen-Vehicle Pursuit
RESOLVEDA blue 2023 Ford F-150 reported stolen wove through the area before a supervisor chased it onto Route 400.
Beginning around 1:04 PM, West Seneca police tracked a stolen blue 2023 Ford F-150 whose owner was following it from West Seneca, watching it drive erratically through the Fisher Court and Reserve Road area near West Seneca West High School.
A supervisor gave chase, and the pursuit ended after the truck was run onto Route 400 near Elwood Drive and stopped. Cheektowaga police had earlier logged the same stolen F-150 report, the owner tracking the vehicle across town lines.
Lancaster · Broadway west of Town Line · Erratic Driver
ONGOINGA driver reported swerving toward the ditch multiple times drew a Lancaster pursuit westbound on Broadway.
At 1:53 PM, Lancaster police went after a red Ram reported driving erratically westbound on Broadway from Town Line, the driver said to have almost hit the ditch several times before officers moved in on a vehicle pursuit.
Cattaraugus County · Schultz Express, 106 Apprentice Drive · Injury MVA
RESOLVEDA two-to-three-vehicle accident near Schultz Express on Apprentice Drive prompted a heavy EMS response.
At 8:56 AM, a two-to-three-vehicle crash was reported at Schultz Express, 106 Apprentice Drive, with dispatch relaying that a pregnant woman about 32 weeks along was among those hurt. Multiple ambulances were requested to the scene.
Town of Tonawanda · Domestic Assault
RESOLVEDA Tonawanda domestic turned physical, and the woman was transported to the hospital.
At 12:24 PM, Tonawanda police worked a domestic dispute in which a man was reported to have thrown hot coffee at a woman and then choked her. The victim was transported to the hospital.
Buffalo · Pembroke and Grider
At 9:08 AM, a Buffalo A-district car raised dispatch with a call for the ages: “We got one for the scavenger”. There was, the officer reported, “a dead cat in the middle of the street” at Pembroke and Grider — a solemn little errand duly logged and cleared with the gravity of any other run.
Hamburg · NBT Bank, 5999 South Park
At 12:36 PM, Hamburg police caught up with a man staff had watched for two straight days at NBT Bank, 5999 South Park — a 35-year-old in a gray suit, aggrieved that his ATM card wouldn't cooperate. His crowning move: leaving a shopping bag behind in the parking lot, the mark of a man whose feud with the machine has become a routine.
Cheektowaga · Berkeley at Midland
An ongoing Cheektowaga curiosity surfaced again in the morning traffic: a silver car, possibly a Maserati, parked the wrong way with no front plate at Berkeley and Midland — a recurring gripe that the neighborhood, and dispatch, have apparently come to know by sight.
Chautauqua County · Somerdale
At 10:36 AM, Chautauqua law enforcement fielded a very country-road sort of call — an injured deer down in a ditch on Somerdale — and dispatched a crew to handle the removal.
Buffalo · Tonawanda and Wendy Streets
At 12:27 PM, dog control got a two-for-one from a Buffalo A-district car: a loose medium-sized black dog at 486 Tonawanda, and — over at 157 Wendy — “an ongoing issue with the owners for dogs always getting out”, with two of them out at that very moment. An officer volunteered to take Wendy, which by now sounds like a standing appointment.
Buffalo · Missing Person
Just after 8:48 AM, Buffalo police were sent to an address on Rosetta Petruzzi Way for a missing-person report after a 13-year-old ran away from the home at about 6 AM, caught leaving on the family's security camera. Dispatch classified the case as a “safe” missing-person entry, indicating no immediate sign of danger; no further update was broadcast during the window.
Cheektowaga · Ridge Park Avenue
Cheektowaga Fire dispatched mutual-aid unit Cleveland 071 just after 9:16 AM on a report of a 33-year-old man actively seizing and vomiting blood on Ridge Park Avenue. Dispatchers twice acknowledged over the air that they did not have a confirmed location for the call before crews were sent. No outcome was broadcast during the window.
West Seneca · M&T Bank
Just after 8:26 AM, West Seneca police were sent to an M&T Bank branch after dispatch relayed that “you got a guy at the vestibule trying to break the doors open”, noting the bank had not yet opened for the day. Units were assigned to the scene as callers described a man trying to force his way in through the vestibule doors; no arrest was reported on the air during the window.
The week in local government — tap a headline
A steady, high-volume weekday hummed across Western New York's channels, with Buffalo carrying the heaviest load and the Southtowns and outer counties close behind on a diet of falls, breathing calls and welfare checks. The window's tensest moments were domestic: a Cheektowaga man reported wielding butcher knives while his wife locked herself in a bedroom, a Tonawanda coffee-and-choking assault that put a victim in the hospital, and three armed men flashing a 9mm outside a Buffalo home. Two vehicle pursuits — a stolen pickup near West Seneca West High and an erratic Ram out of Lancaster — punctuated the early afternoon. No single catastrophe defined the day; the volume itself was the story.
“We got one for the scavenger. There's a dead cat in the middle of the street at Pembroke and Grider”
— BPD Dist A, 9:08 AM
| Bucket | Segs |
|---|---|
| Fire / EMS | 4700 |
| Police | 4300 |
| Rail / maritime | 230 |
| Airport / aviation | 180 |
| Other | 106 |
| Bucket | Segs |
|---|---|
| Buffalo | 2900 |
| Other Erie County | 2100 |
| Outer counties | 2000 |
| Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew | 1500 |
| Williamsville & Amherst | 700 |
By-agency and by-area counts are proportional estimates from channel-family activity; conventional trunks are mapped by their home region.