Assault

(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...