West Seneca · Orchard Park Road · Weapon Incident

A Construction Worker Pulls a Gun on a West Seneca Homeowner

A homeowner on Orchard Park Road reported that a construction worker brandished a handgun during a dispute; the weapon was confiscated on scene.

Around midday, West Seneca police were called to 137 Orchard Park Road after a homeowner reported that a construction worker had pulled a gun during a confrontation at the property. The call came in as a knife-and-gun brandishing incident.

Officers who responded confiscated the weapon on scene. The scanner traffic established the homeowner's report and the seizure of the gun but did not establish that any shots were fired or that anyone was injured before the thread closed.

Buffalo · Armed Robbery

A Robber in an Army Ski Mask Flees With an AK-47 — and $24

A midday gunpoint robbery on Buffalo's East Side ended with the armed suspect gone and a haul the victim put at twenty-four dollars.

Just before noon, Buffalo police broadcast a robbery at gunpoint. The first description put the suspect as a black male in a North Face jacket, black jeans and a green-and-red belt, last seen on foot on Kent. Minutes later the picture sharpened: “a younger black male wearing a black puffy coat with an Army ski mask on”, with what the complainant described as a red-and-green Gucci belt.

The weapon drew the sharpest detail of the call — the suspect “was holding what appeared to be an AK-47”. The complainant could not say which way he fled. When a unit later asked whether the robber had gotten away with anything, the answer came back blunt: the victim said she was robbed of $24.

Cattaraugus County · Scrap-Metal Dispute · Shooting Complaint

A Scrap-Metal Dispute Between Workers Becomes a Shooting Complaint

Cattaraugus County deputies were sent on a shooting complaint after a dispute among workers over scrap metal; a silver Ford dump truck was named as a suspect vehicle.

Early in the afternoon, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's dispatch channel carried a shooting complaint tied to a dispute between workers over scrap metal. A silver Ford dump truck was named as the suspect vehicle.

The traffic came across the OpenMHz outer-county feed and placed the complaint among the day's sharper outer-county calls. The scanner traffic established the report and the suspect-vehicle description but did not establish any confirmed gunfire, any injuries, or an arrest before the thread closed.

Buffalo · East Side · Missing Children

Two Missing-9-Year-Old Reports Roil an East Side Morning — One Found Safe at School

Within a half hour, Buffalo police worked two separate reports of missing nine-year-olds across the East Side before one turned up safe in a Cheektowaga classroom.

At about 8:54 AM, Buffalo police sent an officer to 223 Stone for a missing-person report involving a nine-year-old niece last seen that morning. An aunt had emailed the report, and units moved to search the upper rear apartment, where dispatch noted the child has a history of running away; a second description went out of a girl possibly in a blue hoodie and sweatpants, a leopard-print coat and a pink book bag.

A separate report that morning involved a nine-year-old whose grandmother said she had not had contact in two days. One of the two cases resolved quickly: dispatch confirmed a missing student had been located at a school in Cheektowaga. The scanner traffic established both reports and the one confirmed recovery but did not establish a resolution on the second before the thread closed.

Cheektowaga · Walden Avenue · Motorcycle Crashes

Two Motorcyclists Struck on Walden Avenue Within the Hour

Back-to-back crashes on Walden Avenue sent fire and EMS out twice before 9 AM, one of them reported with serious injuries.

At about 7:56 AM, Cheektowaga fire and EMS were dispatched to 1610 Walden Avenue, near a Tim Hortons, for a motorcyclist down with serious injuries after being struck. Just over half an hour later, at about 8:33 AM, a second crash at 2470 Walden Avenue brought another report of a motorcyclist struck by a truck.

By about 8:46 AM, crews on the second scene reported the motorcycle accident involved minor injuries, with AMR evaluating. The scanner traffic established both strikes and the responses but did not establish further detail on the first rider's condition before the threads closed.

Buffalo · East Side · Search Warrants

SWAT Executes Two Flashbang Search Warrants on the East Side

Buffalo police worked two search warrants within the same morning, deploying flashbangs at both without a shot fired.

At about 9:03 AM, a Buffalo officer gave dispatch a heads-up ahead of a search warrant at 182 Stockbridge: “just watch, us use flashbangs just in case you get any calls”. SWAT ran the entry, requesting times and numbers logged at 9:04 AM; teams reported the apartment and attic clear, with a deadbolted basement they could not reach because only the landlord had access.

A second warrant was executed that morning at a Narco-unit operation on the East Side, again with multiple flashbangs deployed and no shots fired. The scanner traffic established both warrants and the flashbang deployments but did not establish arrests or seizures before the threads closed.

Amherst · Seaforth Elementary · Suspicious Vehicle

A Copper-Colored Car Checking Doors Behind Seaforth Elementary Prompts a School Inspection

Amherst police headed to Seaforth Elementary after a report of a four-door vehicle trying doors behind the school; fire crews later swept the building on a separate odor complaint.

At about 1:24 PM, Amherst police were sent to Seaforth Elementary after a report of a vehicle checking doors behind the school, back toward Seaforth Park. The car was described as a four-door, copper in color.

Shortly after, at about 1:25 PM, Amherst fire crews were at the same school on an odor complaint, and after a 360-degree inspection reported they were unable to identify any odor. The scanner traffic established the suspicious-vehicle report and the inspection but did not establish that the two were connected or that the vehicle was located before the threads closed.

Amherst · Taxi Dispatch

A Limo Driver's Plainspoken Note: The Homewood Suites Run Doubles as a Correctional Stop

The quietest line of the morning came off the limo-and-taxi channel at about 9:35 AM, a driver orienting himself out loud at the Homewood Suites on Millersport — “we're in front of Homewood Suite, 1130 in Millersport, which is a correctional location”. No alarm, no drama, just a heads-up to the next driver that the pickup address wears two hats.

Wyoming County · Sheriff Dispatch

The Great Warsaw iPhone Crash: No Cars Hurt, One Expensive Lesson

A Wyoming County deputy chased a mystery all morning: a reported crash on East Buffalo Hill with no damaged cars anywhere to be found. The answer arrived at about 8:57 AM — the caller had left a phone on a vehicle's trunk, and it had gone for a ride. The deputy's verdict, delivered dry as toast: “that sounds like an expensive mistake”.

Cheektowaga · BNIA · Airline Ramp

A Dog Carrier Won't Fit Under the Seat, and the Whole Gate Hears About It

At about 1:40 PM, a Southwest gate agent at Buffalo-Niagara aired the day's most relatable travel snag: “a passenger can't fit the dog carrier under their seat”. Somewhere out there a good boy was one inch too tall for the overhead geometry of air travel.

Tonawanda · PD Dispatch

One Breath, One Dispatcher, Half a Dozen Calls Cleared

At about 8:15 AM, a Tonawanda dispatcher ran a whole morning's worth of calls down in a single rolling exhale — a domestic parsed, parties separated, then a rapid-fire string of clearances across the town, closed one after another without pausing for air: “1 Riverview, Dupont, 2 Sheridan, 1 Surrey, 52 is 30, close this one, 161 close it”. It's the sound of a shift being tidied up before the next one piles on.

Olean · PD Dispatch

Good Night, Ray: A Sign-Off After a Shift of Lockouts and Welfare Checks

After an afternoon of vehicle lockouts and a welfare check on a man slumped on a corner, an Olean dispatcher closed out an officer's tour with the kind of plain human warmth the radio rarely slows down for: “Good night, Ray. That vehicle has been unlocked. Your control is clear”.

Town of Tonawanda · Medical Emergency · DOA Confirmed

Man Found ‘Not Breathing’ in Town of Tonawanda Confirmed Dead at Scene

Tonawanda police dispatch sent a hot response to a Town of Tonawanda address after a caller reported that a friend's boyfriend was not breathing. Arriving units confirmed the man was “not conscious, not alert, not breathing”, and a supervising unit radioed minutes later that he was, in the dispatcher's blunt phrasing, “obviously, DOA”. No further details on the man's identity or the exact address were given on the air.

Tonawanda · Delaware Road · School Injury

Teacher's Hands Burned Unplugging Computer Draws Hot Response to Tonawanda School

Tonawanda Town Fire Dispatch sent a hot first-aid response to a school at 155 Delaware Road after a teacher in her 40s was “electrocuted while unplugging her computer, her hands are burned”, leaving her hands burned. Dispatchers repeated on the air that she remained “constantly alert breathing normally”, a detail relayed to responding units several times before the call closed out.

Buffalo · East Tupper Street · Knifepoint Robbery

Man Robbed at Knifepoint Outside City Mission, Weapon's Location Disputed on Air

Buffalo police dispatch sent Car 231 to the City Mission at 100 East Tupper Street[*] [heard: East Tuffer] just before 2 PM on a report of a robbery at knifepoint. The victim, identified on the radio as a Puerto Rican man, was unable to give a clothing description of his attacker and said he had been robbed of gift cards from Target, declining treatment for injury. Dispatch first relayed that the knife was left on a bench in front of the nearby Trico Plant 1 building, though a follow-up transmission moments later described the weapon's whereabouts as unknown.

Cheektowaga · Lackawanna Avenue · Domestic Dispute

Cheektowaga Order-of-Protection Case Resurfaces as Ex-Partner Shows Up Unannounced

Cheektowaga police were sent to 159 Lackawanna Avenue, on the east side between Village Lane and Reimann, after a resident reported that her boyfriend's ex-partner, identified on dispatch as Kaitlyn Martin, had come to the house unannounced — the latest in a dispute dispatchers said they had handled at the address many times before, with one radioing, “we've been here a million times”. A records check found an order of protection naming Kaitlyn Martin and Noah Martin had been served on the 29th of October, though none existed for a third party identified as Josh Martin. Dispatch noted the order would be reworded when the matter returns to court this Friday, with one officer remarking of the situation, “it's not going great”.

Cheektowaga · Walden Galleria · Retail Theft

Mall Shoplifter Makes a Run for It — Straight to the Hotel Lobby, Polo Shirts in Tow

Cheektowaga police dispatch put out a lookout just after 1:20 PM for a shoplifter who had fled Macy's at the Walden Galleria on foot, described as a Black man in a black jacket and gray sweatpants carrying stolen merchandise, last seen running through the mall parking lot toward the nearby M Hotel. Units 94, 7 and 3 converged on the area, and officers spotted him again minutes later still in front of the hotel, now carrying “a box of men's polo shirts”.

Cattaraugus County · West Valley · ALS Trauma Call

Five-Year-Old's Hand Caught in Mixer Drum Draws ALS Trauma Response in West Valley

Cattaraugus County Fire Dispatch sent an ALS trauma call to Route 240 in West Valley at 9:38 AM for a 5-year-old boy whose hand had been caught in a mixer drum. Medic 95 and a Mercy Flight crew responded, with a chief on scene radioing dispatch that “Mercy's in the room” to confirm paramedics had reached the child. Minutes later, however, a chief reported the patient had already left the scene in a personal vehicle, and the call was canceled.