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Aaron Besecker

Buffalo

Crime Reporter at Buffalo News

#GirlDad. Public safety/breaking news reporter @TheBuffaloNews. VP/@BuffaloGuild. Come save me from the awful sound of nothing. 716-849-4602

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  • 2 days ago | buffalonews.com | Aaron Besecker

    Crime Stoppers WNY has offered up to a $5,000 reward for information to help locate the suspects in Monday night's double shooting at Canalside. A 23-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were shot about 7:55 p.m. near Prime Street on the downtown waterfront, city officials said. Buffalo police have described the shooting as "targeted" and said they were looking for two "persons of interest." After the shooting, police released images they said depicted the two.

  • 3 days ago | buffalonews.com | Aaron Besecker

    Starpoint Schools Superintendent Sean M. Croft was convicted Tuesday of driving while ability impaired and sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge following a bench trial in West Seneca Town Court, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office. Croft, who had been charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated after a one-vehicle crash in August, was convicted after an bench trial before West Seneca Town Justice Jon F.

  • 3 days ago | buffalonews.com | Aaron Besecker

    Buffalo police did not illegally eavesdrop on a teenage suspect and his mother last year during an investigation into a double shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy, a judge has ruled. And Erie County prosecutors will be able to play the video recording of the teen and his mother inside a police interview room in open court when an evidentiary hearing resumes next week, the judge also decided.

  • 3 days ago | buffalonews.com | Aaron Besecker

    The Niagara County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday released the name of the motorcyclist found dead Monday after a crash on Purdy Road in Lockport. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts Sheriff's deputies who responded to a 911 call just before 7 a.m. found Shawn Weaton, 37, of Lockport, deceased at the scene of the crash, which occurred sometime overnight.

  • 4 days ago | buffalonews.com | Aaron Besecker

    A motorcyclist was found dead Monday in Lockport after an overnight crash on Purdy Road, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office said. The crash happened sometime overnight and deputies were alerted to the situation on the 4300 block of Purdy Road on Monday morning, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

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8 Nov 24

Judge bars prosecutors from using Aaron Rodgers jersey against man accused of shooting at Buffalo police officer https://t.co/7ZPrhHGpB7 via @TheBuffaloNews

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8 Nov 24

A Snyder man who admitted setting a fire four years ago that killed his girlfriend's mother was sentenced Friday to five years in prison, the minimum period of incarceration available. https://t.co/zIWl0ZxWPe

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7 Nov 24

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