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Amherst · Motel 6 → Sheridan Family Restaurant

Caller at Motel 6 Says a Man Punched Her and Shook Her Seven-Day-Old Baby in Its Car Seat — Amherst PD Finds the Suspect Sitting Down to Lunch at Sheridan Family Restaurant

The complainant refused first aid for the newborn, dispatch said the child appeared to be sleeping, and no arrest crossed the channel before shift change.

At 13:12, an Amherst PD dispatcher opened the trunk with a sentence that stopped the channel: “… in the face and shook a seven-day-old baby. The male is currently at the Sheridan Family Diner, so they are separated”. The address on the mother was Motel 6; the male, dispatch said, had walked away from the argument and was at the Sheridan Family Restaurant, 3901 Sheridan Drive, seated with his own relatives.

The second transmission, a minute later, told units that the mother did not want EMS involved: “For Motel 6, the complainant is refusing first aid for the child, thinks that it's currently sleeping. The subject is at the Sheridan Family Diner with his family”. Officers went to both scenes at once — one to the motel to check on the newborn, another to the restaurant to keep the male in place.

At 13:17, the timeline sharpened. Dispatch relayed: “This occurred 10 minutes ago while they were all pulling into the Sheridan Family Restaurant. So the subject's family also witnessed this and he shook the baby while it was in its car seat”. That transmission is what turned a he-said-she-said into a witness-corroborated allegation — the suspect's own family, the complainant told the responding officer, saw him shake the baby in its car seat.

Records came back moments later: an ID check on one of the parties (Lincoln Henry Johns 3245 and John Henry Yankee 6918) returned “negative up to no abuse,” which on this channel means the person queried has no prior domestic-abuse history in the system. Confirmation of the male's identity was not read on the air.

Officers held the male at 3901 Sheridan and continued the interview with the mother at Motel 6. By the end of the window the baby was reported to appear well, no transport had been ordered, and no arrest had been announced on the trunk. The investigation continued off-channel.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

Amherst · 7-Eleven at Boulevard & Chestnut Ridge

RESOLVED

Domestic Escalates in the 7-Eleven Lot at Boulevard and Chestnut Ridge — Third-Party Witness Reports the Male Pushing the Female Around Before Everyone Drives Off

At 10:48, Amherst PD took a woman on the line with “a non-female arguing, child in the background … punched her in the face”. Nine minutes later a third-party caller in the same lot escalated it: “Something is escalating, we got a third-party caller now, witness, reporting the male is pushing the female around”. Units converged on the 7-Eleven at Niagara Falls Boulevard and Chestnut Ridge Road, following a Black Dodge Caravan that had pulled off just before patrol arrived.

The plate came back to Dominique Tarver, female, born 1986, out of Cheektowaga. By the time the incident number was closed a couple of hours later, the male had walked, the female was uncooperative, and there was, as one Amherst PD unit put it flatly, nothing to hold. No charges were filed on the channel.

Snyder · North Union & Main

RESOLVED

Two-Car Wreck Closes North Union at Main Just Before 10 A.M. — Amherst PD Blocks the Northbound Lane, Twin City Transports Two to Suburban

Just before 09:51, Amherst Fire toned out a motor-vehicle accident at North Union Road and Main Street, unknown extent of injuries. Amherst PD blocked northbound South Union “just right in the middle of the intersection here,” and units resolved it as two cars, two patients. Twin City Ambulance transported both to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital and cleared the scene at 09:53.


Overheard: The WiresCops, cabbies, custodians, dispatchers — off-script

Amherst · 332 Little Robin Road

‘An Issue With Some Demons in Her House’: Amherst PD Called to 332 Little Robin, Complainant Uncooperative, Unfriendly Dog on Location

The most Amherst-in-July welfare check of the window, dispatched at 11:06 in one uninterrupted breath: “3-3-2 Little Robin Road. Complainant is having an issue with some demons in her house. We have time to hold history with her”. Radio then noted, gently, that there was an unfriendly dog on location as well, and the responding officer conceded the caller was very uncooperative. Sometimes you just have to stand on the porch and let the porch situation resolve itself.

Buffalo · A Mopping-Related Incident

Buffalo Fire Investigates Mystery Vapor, Discovers a Cleaning Lady Who Just Mixed Bleach With Something Else — ‘A Little Bit of Smoke, But No Danger’

Just after 11:03 a BFD unit keyed up from what had been a routine smoke check with what may be the day's cleanest chain of reasoning on the radio: “The female is spraying something on the floor and trying to mix some chemicals, and there's smoke, and I think that's where the vapor is coming from”, followed thirty seconds later by “She was mopping the floor. She must have mixed some chemicals together”. Six minutes later, the confirmation: “You had some bleach mixed with … we've created a little bit of smoke here, but no danger”. Nobody's fault, but do not, please, ever pair bleach with anything else in the same bucket.

Amherst · Amherst Fire, Slightly Weary Category

‘Confirmed Burnt Toast, We're Bagging First’ — Amherst Fire Dispatch Delivers the Morning's Purest Sentence

At 09:57, in the middle of an otherwise unremarkable EMS-and-fire-alarm morning, an Amherst Fire dispatcher keyed up with six words that need no context and no follow-up: “Confirmed burnt toast, we're bagging first”. There was no follow-up. There should not be.

Amherst · Youngs at Keating

A Deer Stuck in Live Wires on the Front Lawn, a Possibly-Deceased Dog on Youngs at Keating: Amherst PD's Fauna Hour

The morning shift's animal-response bracket, entirely delivered in Amherst-PD monotone. At 07:41: “A possibly deceased dog on the roadway, Youngs at Keating”. Two and a half hours later, a follow-up call at a residence a few blocks over: “There's supposed to be a deer that's stuck in some wires, bleeding on the lawn”, then the officer's on-scene downgrade: “Be mobile and just have some wiring that's wrapped around it”. The deer, mercifully, walked off; the wiring, less so.

BNIA · A Ramp with an Opinion

‘There's a Provo Truck Doing Donuts Over There’ — TAC Air's Late-Afternoon Air-Traffic Update from the BNIA Ramp

The window closed the way it deserved: with a TAC Air refueling channel calmly reporting, at 14:44, on the outside activity at the general-aviation ramp. “There's a Provo truck doing donuts over there”. Whatever a Provo truck is doing donuts over there for on a Friday afternoon, it is now on the record.


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Fort Erie, Ontario · Struck Gas Line

RESOLVED

Fort Erie Fire Dispatches to a Struck Gas Line at 1935 McDonald Drive — Residents Kept Outside, Enbridge on a 45-Minute ETA

At 11:24, Fort Erie Fire Dispatch put an engine and a rescue on TAC-248 for a struck residential gas line at 1935 McDonald Drive. Seven minutes later the dispatcher briefed the crew: “For a person that hit the gas line outside of the residence, Enbridge ETA is 45 minutes. You can use TAC-2.” The channel went quiet after a stand-down was requested at 11:40 with no injuries reported and no US mutual-aid page on the Niagara Region trunk in the window.

Cheektowaga · Partial Thumb Amputation

Cheektowaga Fire Toned for a Partial Thumb Amputation With the Caller ‘Now Losing Consciousness’

At 13:35, Cheektowaga Fire Dispatch (CFD Disp) toned an ALS EMS run for “a male, partial thumb amputation, now losing consciousness.” The transmission was clipped and the address did not come cleanly across the Municipalities trunk; the call handed off without further chatter on the channel. A rare enough call type to note even without a location that survived the audio.

Other Calls of Note

[14:33]Amherst · 8290 Transit at Target East Amherst Fire toned out for a leaking propane tank in the parking lot at Target, 8290 Transit Road; contractor called to shut it down.
[13:11]Amherst · Whole Foods, 3139 Sheridan Eggertsville EMS dispatched to Whole Foods, 3139 Sheridan Drive, women's restroom, for a female having cardiac issues; routine ALS response, no transport announcement on the channel.
[10:06]Cheektowaga · Cleveland Hill EMS, 3724 Harlem Cleveland Hill EMS toned to 3724 Harlem Road, west side between Cleveland Drive and Wayne Terrace, for a 30-year-old male with chest and back pain.
[13:45]Amherst · 365 Ruskin Road Ellicott Creek EMS to 365 Ruskin Road, between Saratoga and Wansau, for an elderly male not alert and having trouble breathing.
[09:09]Lockport · Urban Park Tower, 77 Main City of Lockport EMS toned to 77 Main Street, Urban Park Tower, for a 58-year-old male with chest pain and difficulty breathing, cardiac and CHF history — mutual-aid MS-21 requested.
[10:05]Niagara Falls · 5526 Niagara Street NC FD toned Rapids Corners and MS-21 to 5526 Niagara Street for a 36-year-old male, possible overdose, one Narcan administered, conscious and breathing.
[14:31]Amherst · Juniper Glen, 8820 Transit Amherst PD dispatched for a mental hygiene call at Juniper Glen, 8820 Transit Road — an 81-year-old male with dementia becoming aggressive with staff.

Editor’s Note

An eight-hour window that turned on a single mid-day transmission. At 13:12, Amherst PD relayed a caller from Motel 6 accusing a man of punching her in the face and shaking a seven-day-old baby in its car seat, then walking off to sit down for lunch with his family at the Sheridan Family Restaurant on Sheridan Drive; the mother refused first aid for the child, dispatch said it appeared to be sleeping, and no arrest crossed the trunk before shift change. Around it, Amherst worked a physical domestic at the 7-Eleven at Boulevard and Chestnut Ridge, a welfare check on a woman who told 911 she was having trouble with “some demons in her house,” a two-car MVA at North Union and Main, and a leaking propane tank in the Target lot at 8290 Transit. Regional traffic gave us a Fort Erie gas-line strike on McDonald Drive and a Cheektowaga fire-dispatch page for a partial thumb amputation with the caller losing consciousness. No Tier Alpha hits.

Daily Gem

Confirmed burnt toast, we're bagging first”

— Amherst Fire Dispatch, 09:57

By the Numbers

Segments
1,058
Active systems
31
Busiest hour
13:00–14:00 (Amherst PD Motel 6 / Sheridan Family Restaurant baby-shaking call)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Police405
Fire / EMS285
Hotel / shuttle / taxi105
Airport / aviation90
Schools55
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Williamsville & Amherst545
Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew120
Niagara County95
Buffalo95
Other Erie County110

Agency & area buckets are estimated by mapping ProScan channels to categories per the briefing prompt; airport-side channels are attributed to Cheektowaga (where BNIA sits), and segments with no address are attributed by the dispatching agency's home jurisdiction.

The WNY Listening Post · Friday, July 24, 2026 · P.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 76
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