Amherst · Highledge Drive

Welfare check at Highledge Drive turns urgent: caller says woman swallowed "about three bottles of pills"

At 19:58, Amherst PD ran a welfare check to 55 Highledge Drive after a caller reported a relative had “took about three bottles of pills and she was alert when she was just talking to her” during a phone conversation just minutes earlier.

Dispatch reported the subject was — unusually for an overdose call — still alert when last on the phone, and PD asked Twin City to roll regardless. The subject was identified on-air as "Virginia Mitchell," wearing red and black pajama pants. Officers cleared from the scene around 20:01 with no further updates on transport.

Williamsville · Main Street

Center of Williamsville: pink-haired woman, ponytailed man fight in parking lot at 5500 Main

At 21:15, an Amherst PD dispatcher pinged a unit to 5500 Main Street, the center of Williamsville, for what a passerby called in as “a white female with pink hair and a white male with his hair in a ponytail arguing in the parking lot”.

The complainant said the woman — last seen walking west on Main Street — had taken off on foot by the time the call was placed. An East Spring unit said it would take a look anyway, and 12 was disregarded. No 10-50, no arrests, the file closed quickly.

Amherst · NFB & Sheridan

MVA at Niagara Falls Boulevard and Sheridan: drivers out of the cars, no injuries

Amherst Fire Dispatch put Twin City 244 onto a motor vehicle accident at Niagara Falls Boulevard and Sheridan Drive at 16:36; Amherst PD followed up that all the drivers were already standing outside their vehicles.

By 16:43 Amherst PD told the dispatcher "nobody's reporting any injuries," and Amherst Fire confirmed three refusals at 16:58. Routine fender-bender behavior at one of Williamsville's busiest signals.

Amherst · Late-night puzzle

Dead deer, broken glass, vanishing flashlights: Amherst couple wakes up to a 2 a.m. crime-scene reveal

At 02:42 a complainant told Amherst PD that “a car that pulled over — there's people that got out with flashlights” had pulled over outside her home in the middle of the night.

When she and her husband finally went outside to look, “they found broken glass and car parts in the street, as well as a dead deer on their front lawn”. The homeowner had ring-camera footage of whatever happened. Was it a deer strike with a hit-and-run? A salvage operation gone wrong? Whatever it was, the deer didn't make it.

Amherst · Roadway

"Logged for pickle": Amherst PD's afternoon kicks off with a dead cat and a typo

At 16:06, an Amherst PD officer radioed in “Dead cat in the road — see if it can be moved out of the road or if it's just going to be logged for pickle” — a Whisper transcription gem for the ages, the kind of slip that gives the Amherst-Clarence channel its quiet character. By 16:21 the cat had been moved “to the side of the road in front of Sherwin-Williams”, awaiting pickup. Routine business. Excellent diction.

Amherst · North Ellicott Creek Road

Domestic, then welfare check, then "big misunderstanding": N. Ellicott Creek Road, two parties, one shrug

An Amherst PD officer reframed a 17:17 call at 356 North Ellicott Creek Road on the fly: “I didn't take the welfare check — it was domestic”, then the girlfriend “threatened that she wanted to hurt herself”, and then, by the time officers were on location, both parties were saying “it's a big misunderstanding”. Have fun, said the dispatcher.

Wyoming County · Sprucelands

Black smoke from an old abandoned house at Sprucelands Camp

At 17:07 Wyoming County Fire dispatched a possible structure fire at 1326 Pitt Road, listed as Sprucelands Camp; the caller “heard something — an old abandoned house, you can see black smoke”.

Crews were quickly on scene; later in the hour, attention shifted to a tree down with live wires across 6084 Evans Road in Silver Springs, which monopolized the channel for the rest of the afternoon.