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Buffalo, New York (WNY News Now).Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane revealed on Tuesday that a retired Buffalo police officer had entered a guilty plea to shooting a 14-year-old boy outside the Marine Drive Apartment complex last year.An image of Antonio Roman from the Erie County DA's office Before his planned non-jury trial, Antonio Roman, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault and one count of first-degree reckless endangerment, both Class D felonies. Roman challenged a group of people in the complex's parking area at around 7:30 a.m. on February 8, 2024, because he thought they were breaking into cars. Roman shot a 14-year-old male in the leg during the confrontation with his lawfully held firearm. After then, the group escaped in a car that was later foun...

(WNY News Now) Justin Biser, a former youth baseball coach, was found guilty on 65 counts of sexual assault, indecent assault, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and invasion of privacy by a Franklin County jury. Between 2021 and 2023, three youngsters and two adults were involved in the offenses.Photograph by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office of Justin Biser HARRISBURG — On Sunday, Attorney General Dave revealed that a former youth baseball instructor in the area was found guilty by a Franklin County jury of dozens of sexual assault charges related to acts against three children and two adults. Waynesboro resident Justin Biser, 45, was convicted on Thursday of 65 charges, including invasion of privacy, CSAM, sexual assault, and indecent assault. According to testimony presente...

Buffalo, New York (WNY News Now) Devin M. Ford, 24, of Buffalo, entered a guilty plea to counts of assault and manslaughter in relation to a deadly collision that killed two people and gravely injured two more. Ford was found guilty of the fatal incident that happened in the early hours of March 21, 2024, and the plea is before State Supreme Court Justice Paul B. Wojtaszek in Erie County. Ford pled guilty to two counts of second-degree manslaughter, one offense of second-degree assault, and one count of third-degree assault. The allegations are related to a careless collision that happened at around 12:15 a.m. on Humboldt Parkway. Ford collided with another car at the intersection of Main Street as a result of his fast driving and neglect to turn on his headlights. The crash claimed the ...

(WNY News Now) Buffalo resident Justin L. Davis, 24, was given the maximum penalty for assaulting a probation officer while in the Erie County Probation Department's custody. Justin L. Davis, 24, of Buffalo, was sentenced this morning to the maximum penalty of one year in local jail by State Supreme Court Justice Debra Givens, according to Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane. The defendant was detained at the Erie County Probation Department office on Niagara Plaza in the City of Buffalo on Thursday, February 16, 2023, at around 11:45 a.m. A probation violation warrant had been issued for his arrest. While in a guarded hallway of the building, the defendant became hostile toward probation officers, and he persisted in fighting with them as he was led from the facility ont...

(WNY News Now) – A Buffalo resident pleads guilty to violent felony after injuring victim in a dispute over money.Buffalo, N.Y. – Joel A. Brown, 45, of Buffalo, has pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Assault in the First Degree, a Class “C” violent felony. Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane announced the plea, which was entered before State Supreme Court Justice Paul B. Wojtaszek.The charges stem from a September 9, 2024, incident in the Town of Tonawanda. Around 4:08 p.m., police responded to a reported shooting on the 300 block of Kenmore Avenue. A 36-year-old man, suffering gunshot wounds to his hand and lower torso, was rushed to ECMC by Twin City ambulance for treatment.Investigators determined the shooting occurred during a dispute over money. Brown fired mul...

(WNY News Now) – A Rochester man who admitted to participating in violent protests and assaulting officers has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison.ROCHESTER, N.Y. — JohnMichael Santiago, 25, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to civil disorder and assaulting a federal officer, U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced. Santiago’s conviction stems from a series of protests that escalated into confrontations with law enforcement in September 2020, following the public release of information regarding Daniel Prude’s death in police custody.Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Moynihan detailed that on September 4, 2020, protests began in Rochester in response to the Prude case, with a group of demonstrators damaging property and overtu...