Wyoming County · Broughton Road · Custodial Search

Deputies Chase a Maroon Jeep Toward Route 19 in a Custody Scare Over a 7-Year-Old

A caller followed the vehicle up Broughton Road, saying a boy missing for days was inside with a father who wasn't supposed to have custody.

At 9:08 AM, a Wyoming County Sheriff's dispatcher relayed a caller named Alexis Ebner who was following a “red maroon Jeep up Broughton Road ahead towards 19” and heading toward Route 19. She told dispatch a 7-year-old Washburn child had been missing from Castile for the last few days, and asked that his welfare be checked; a deputy marked toward that direction.

The picture sharpened a few minutes later. Dispatch advised that the child's father, Mark Washburn, was “not in jail anymore” and was believed to be in the backseat of the vehicle — even though he was “not supposed to have custody of the child”. State CPS had been working the case, and the Jeep was turning onto Lamont Road as deputies coordinated with a school resource officer, who had the boy marked as at school. Units set up near an elementary entrance expecting the vehicle to arrive there.

Amherst · The Courtyards · Armed Disturbance

A Brawl With Weapons Reported Among Several Men at the Courtyards

Amherst officers converged on a disturbance described as men fighting, with a knife and possible firearms in play.

At about 10:40 AM, Amherst police responded to a disturbance at The Courtyards, put out over the air as “couple males fighting”. The digest logged the call as a fight involving a knife and possible firearms, and units moved to converge on the scene.

One party was described as having dark hair, a beard and a mustache, and an Officer Johnson was noted on the party. As the call built, a supervising unit asked for “another car over close to the courtyard”, the standard sign that responders wanted more coverage on a scene with weapons reported. The traffic did not carry further word of anyone struck.

Depew · Foot Pursuit · Mental-Health Crisis

A Suicidal Man Flees His Car Demanding Ketamine, Setting Off a Multi-Agency Foot Pursuit

The subject, with a mental-health history and making threats to harm himself, ran from his vehicle near an under-bridge area, drawing Depew PD and Hamburg Fire.

Starting around 11:29 AM, Depew police and Hamburg Fire worked a fast-moving mental-health crisis after a man fled his vehicle near an under-bridge area off Aurora Street. Per the traffic, the subject had made suicidal threats, had a documented mental-health history, and was heard demanding ketamine as units gave chase on foot.

The digest logged no weapons or drugs recovered as the pursuit ran its course over roughly ten minutes. The multi-agency response reflected the volatility of the call rather than any confirmed weapon, and the incident cleared without further escalation crossing the air.

Buffalo · Niagara Street Tops · Psych Crisis

A Self-Harm Attempt With Store Keys Halts Checkout at the Niagara Street Tops

A woman described as a psychiatric patient tried to cut her wrists with keys after a shoplifting stop, with police staged as EMS responded.

Around 11:28 AM, Buffalo Fire and police worked a psychiatric emergency at the Tops at 425 Niagara Street, where a 60-year-old woman described on the air as a psych patient was reported attempting to cut her wrists with keys at the checkout, armed and refusing to put them down. Police staged while crews moved in.

An earlier transmission from the same store, minutes before, described a woman who had tried to harm herself with keys after a shoplifting incident, with the crisis-intervention team notified. Both threads point to the same distressing scene: a self-harm attempt that stopped a busy grocery line mid-transaction.

Amherst · Maple Road · Man With a Hammer

A Confrontational Man With a Hammer Reported Outside a Maple Road 7-Eleven

Amherst police were called for a suspicious, aggressive man armed with a hammer at the convenience store.

At about 8:59 AM, Amherst police were sent to the 7-Eleven on Maple Road for a suspicious person, described in the traffic as a confrontational man armed with a hammer. Units responded to check the scene.

The call was one of a cluster of low-grade disturbance runs Amherst worked through the morning, but the report of a man with a hammer at a busy convenience store drew a prompt response. No injury crossed the air as the call cleared.

Cheektowaga · Donation Bin

A Forced Entry Into a Donation Bin, and a Held Breath That Ends in Relief

A report that a child might be inside a clothing bin sent officers prying it open.

A little after 8:00 AM, Cheektowaga police worked a call no dispatcher wants: a possible child inside a clothing donation bin, with the bin's owner reported noncompliant. Officers made forced entry to get inside.

The payoff was the only one anyone wanted to hear. “There was no child inside there. All appears to be in order” an officer reported once the bin was open — the tension of the whole call collapsing into four plain words of relief.

Le Roy · Cemetery Ops

'As If Nothing Happened': A Cemetery Crew's Choreography of the Living and the Dead

A groundskeeper on a Le Roy maintenance channel laid out a plan to time two burials so they'd never overlap.

Overheard on a Le Roy maintenance channel just before 9:40 AM: a supervisor working out the delicate logistics of two services running close together. “let's just place the body in the crypt, let everybody leave” he told a crew, “and then if we can bring it right to that building as if nothing happened, I'd rather do that and then seal both after”.

Stripped of context it sounds like the opening of a heist. In truth it is the quiet, considerate craft of a cemetery crew making sure two grieving families never cross paths — but the phrasing, delivered deadpan to a man named Dennis, is pure graveyard theater.

Hamburg · Traffic Order

'Copy That, Watson': A Terse Order Meets an Even Terser Reply

A curt instruction to clear the road drew a reply that could have come straight off Baker Street.

During a low-key property-damage call at a Hamburg Wegmans lot around 1:25 PM, the traffic served up a small gem of radio economy: an order to “get off the road and in the parking lot”, and the reply — “Copy that, Watson”.

Whether Watson is a name or the world's driest reference is left, elementarily, to the listener. Either way it landed like a two-line comedy sketch dropped into the middle of a fender-bender.

Buffalo · Shift's End

'Thanks for Taking the Shift': A Dispatcher Sends One of Their Own Home

In between fire-alarm runs, a small kindness over the air.

At 10:50 AM, in the middle of dispatching a detention-center fire alarm and an ill-person run, a Buffalo Fire dispatcher took a beat to sign someone off the board. “Roger, letter 15 you're heading home. Thanks for taking the shift”

It is nothing and it is everything — the small, human punctuation that runs under every busy watch. Somebody covered a shift; somebody else said thanks and let them go home.

Buffalo · Limo Dispatch

The 290, a Couple Hundred Dollars, and a Dispatcher's Blunt Cost-Benefit Analysis

A limo channel offered an unusually frank take on highway routing before 8 in the morning.

Not every business trunk airs its accounting on the open air. At 7:25 AM, a BuffaloLimo dispatcher weighed a run and delivered the verdict with feeling: “Yeah, the 290 for a couple hundred dollars”, before adding a moment later that the fare was on Sheridan.

It is the sound of the morning-shift math every driver knows — the traffic, the miles, the fare — condensed into one exasperated sentence about the expressway.

Amherst · Medical Emergency

Amherst Fire Crews Mount Mutual-Aid Response for Unconscious, Non-Breathing Woman Near Tunnison and Tennyson

At 1:49 PM, Amherst Fire Dispatch issued an echo-priority EMS call — the department's highest urgency level — reporting “56-year-old female, unconscious, does not appear to be breathing”, giving the location first as Tunnison Road and then, after an on-air correction, as 35 Tennyson Road, between Transit Road and Tunnison Court.

The call drew a heavy mutual-aid response within minutes — State Fire 447, Main-Transit's Engine 95 and Rescue 7, Amherst FD2, Main-Transit 4, and Erie County Fire Coordinator FC2 all responded — though the woman's condition was not confirmed on the air in this window.

Buffalo · Armed Subject Alert

Armed Domestic-Violence Suspect Reported Walking Toward Buffalo General

At 7:28 AM, Buffalo Police radio relayed a broadcast for a man identified on dispatch as Joseph A. Santiago, born in 1993, reported to be walking toward Buffalo General Medical Center after a domestic call; the caller said he was “known to carry a pistol, said to have one”, and he was described in a white t-shirt, tan pants and white shoes.

Dispatchers said Santiago was on foot with no vehicle, and the information was broadcast out to a second channel so patrol units across the district could watch for him.

Buffalo · Weapon Arrest

Two Taken Into Custody, Handgun Recovered at Science Museum Lot

At 12:56 PM, a Buffalo Police unit radioed dispatch from the parking lot of the Buffalo Museum of Science, reporting a stop on a vehicle bearing New York registration MHV-5514 that ended with two people in custody and one gun recovered.

Minutes later the same unit checked back in from a nearby school lot, telling radio there was “no trouble here at all” in case the school called about the activity.

Buffalo · Shots Fired

Caller Reports Two Gunshots Near East Elliman, Buffalo Police Search Area

At 2:26 PM, Buffalo Police were dispatched to 1486 East Elliman after a caller reported hearing two shots that sounded like gunfire; units 228 and 281 were assigned, with a third car, 280, also sent to the area.

A follow-up transmission minutes later asked whether units were still canvassing the scene, with a reply referencing East Sullivan School; the exchange was unclear on the air, and no injuries or evidence of gunfire were confirmed in this window.

Wyoming County · Multi-Vehicle Crash

Five Hurt as Crash Snarls Route 28 in Wyoming County, Mutual Aid Called In

At 7:59 AM, Wyoming County Fire dispatch reported a two-vehicle crash at Route 28 and French Road, with an unknown number of people injured.

By 8:05 AM, crews on scene confirmed five patients with minor injuries and blocked lanes, and dispatch called in a truck from Sheldon along with Medic 83 and Medic 2 to assist; the crew on scene requested traffic control.

Batavia · Vehicle Fire

Three Vehicles Burn in Lot Behind Batavia Auto-Auction Facility

At 11:12 AM, Genesee County Fire dispatch reported a car fire in the lot behind Insurance Auto Auctions at 7149 Appletree Avenue[*] [heard: Appleton], near Liberty Way.

Within minutes the count grew to three vehicles on fire behind the business, and companies worked to move equipment in to reach them.