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    Drug gang leader faces life prison term

    10/28/2006

    The leader of a Buffalo drug gang known as the Michigan Street Posse faces a life prison term after pleading guilty to a charge of running a continuing criminal enterprise.
    Claude Russell Jr., 34, of Hagen Street, took a plea deal Friday, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

    When FBI agents arrested Russell in October 2005, they said he was making so much money from drug sales that he had rented 19 different cars that year and had a $50,000 line of credit at the Seneca Niagara Casino. They also said he hadn't filed a federal tax return since 2002.

    He is scheduled for sentencing on Feb. 16 before District Judge John T. Elfvin.

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    Separate Shootings on 15th Street, Landon Street in Buffalo

    (Buffalo, NY, October 30, 2006) - - Buffalo police are investigating two separate shootings in the city.

    The first shots were fired at about 3:30 Monday afternoon on Buffalo's west side. Detectives tells News 4 gunfire from a moving vehicle hit a young man on 15th Street near Hampshire. He went to ECMC in critical condition.

    Another young man was was gunned down about 40 minutes later on Buffalo's east side. Detectives are still canvassing that crime scene on Landon Street near the Humboldt Parkway.

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    Two robbed at gunpoint on Richmond Avenue

    10/30/2006

    A Niagara Street man told police that he and his girlfriend were mugged at gunpoint at 4 a.m. Sunday at the corner of Rhode Island Street and Richmond Avenue.
    The victims told authorities they were approached by two men wearing black hooded sweat shirts who displayed a black pistol.

    The muggers took $25 in cash, a credit card, a wallet, a cell phone, some personal papers and a set of keys.

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    Pizzeria workers chase would-be robbers away

    10/31/2006

    Two men tried to hold up a Parkside Avenue pizzeria Monday night but were thwarted by workers inside, Buffalo police reported.
    The two men, said to be in their late teens, wore dark bandannas when they entered Lomato's Pizzeria at 285 Parkside at about 8:30 p.m. One of the men was armed with a shotgun and demanded money, police said.

    Police said the two were scared off when a pizzeria worker grabbed his own shotgun. The would-be robbers fled east on Russell Avenue without any money or pizza

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    Woman reports rape after cocaine deal

    10/31/2006

    A Buffalo woman was raped after she purchased crack cocaine at an East Utica Street home Sunday night, police reported.
    Ferry-Fillmore District police said the woman went to the drug house at about 6 p.m. and bought $25 worth of crack cocaine from an unknown man.

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    Man shot, beaten and robbed of $300

    10/31/2006

    A 39-year-old Buffalo man was shot in the buttocks, robbed and beaten unconscious by a gang of men over the weekend, police reported.
    Nathaniel Carter, of Sycamore Street, was treated in the emergency room of Erie County Medical Center and discharged.

    Ferry-Fillmore District police said the victim was "very intoxicated" during the attack and the location of the incident is unknown.

    Police said five to six men assaulted Carter at about 7 p.m. Saturday and robbed him of about $300.

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    Victim of attack can't recall details

    10/31/2006

    A Fulton Street man told police he was beaten and robbed while he was intoxicated Sunday morning but he doesn't remember where the assault happened.
    Wilfredo A. Morales, 23, awoke in his truck - parked at his home - and realized that he had a bruised and swollen right eye, lip and forehead and painful wrists and fingers. He was taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment.

    South District police said Morales told them the beating occurred sometime between 4:30 and 6:30 a.m., when he awoke, and possibly occurred at Chippewa and Georgia streets.

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    Buffalonians see police losing to criminals


    (In seeming contradiction, vast majority views city Police Department favorably, poll shows)


    Criminals, not police, are winning the war on crime in Buffalo, a large majority of people responding to a Buffalo News poll believe.
    But more than two-thirds of those people, all of them registered voters in Buffalo, have a favorable view of the Buffalo Police Department. And more than half say police are "doing enough" to prevent crime.

    How does this make any sense?

    Two community figures, a University at Buffalo criminologist and an East Side preacher, believe they understand this seeming contradiction.

    "What that shows me is that people are aware of the complicated nature of crime, that it's only partially a police issue," said Peter K.B. St. Jean, the UB criminologist. "[People realize that] police are not the cause of crime, so they are not going to be the solution."

    The Rev. Darius G. Pridgen, a community activist and pastor at True Bethel Baptist Church on East Ferry Street, believes the poll numbers show that Buffalo residents feel "the police are doing the best they can with what they're working with."

    He said that view marks a sea change in the public's perception of the police.

    "People are not blaming the police for criminal behavior," he said. "I think that in itself is a milestone. Historically, people . . . blame the police for what is going on. I think people are beginning to realize this is a community issue more than it is a police issue."

    The poll, conducted by the Siena Research Institute for The Buffalo News earlier this month, sought the opinions of 411 registered voters in the city. The poll has a margin of error of just under 5 percentage points.

    Of those 411 people, about 59 percent believe criminals are winning the war on crime, compared with 24 percent who believe police are winning.

    Yet a resounding 71 percent have a favorable opinion of the Buffalo Police Department.

    "There is just too much crime around," said Elisabeth Hwoschinsky of North Buffalo, one of the poll participants. "Some of it probably can't get solved or prevented. There aren't enough lawmen to go around."

    St. Jean, the UB professor, believes the poll results reflect the public's awareness of the complex nature of crime.

    "People have real-life experience with criminals, even if they may use police as the scapegoat," he said. "They are aware that criminals come from their living rooms, their bedrooms, their homes, their neighborhoods . . . "

    The poll, St. Jean believes, also reflects the public perception that the solutions can be found as much in the neighborhoods as in the Police Department. "That's what this [poll] is telling you," he said. "The police can only do so much."

    Steven A. Greenberg, a consultant for the Siena Research Institute, believes the findings give police officials the opportunity to work more closely with community leaders in making crime prevention not just a police issue, but also a community issue.

    "The community is saying, "We like you guys,' " Greenberg said. "So that gives an opening for the Buffalo Police Department to work closely with the community."

    The 71 percent "favorable" rating for the Buffalo Police Department suggests that its efforts are more appreciated than before.

    Pridgen believes that police are doing a good job of making their presence felt - either by taking to the streets, apparently through more aggressive crime-fighting initiatives, or through the media.

    He added that he thinks the public feels empathy for police officers who have not received their pay raises because of the city wage freeze.

    "There is this feeling, at least from blue-collar workers, of what else can they do?" he added. "We're not adding to their ranks. We're not adding to their pockets . . . When you have only so many police and unlimited amount of crime, you start to realize it's not their fault. Not entirely at least."

    Another major finding in the poll is that Buffalo residents, by an overwhelming margin, feel safe in their communities. Of those interviewed, 78 percent said they felt safe, with only 20 percent saying they didn't.

    Ada Hopson-Clemons, president of the Masten Neighborhood Advisory Council, who also serves on several neighborhood block groups, said she believes people feel safe in their neighborhoods because they know the risks and whom to avoid.

    "They know who the criminals are in their neighborhoods," Hopson-Clemons said. "And they're not a threat to them. Drug dealers are threats to each other, not the other individuals."

    She cited a general understanding that "they won't bother me if I don't bother them."

    "It doesn't surprise me that a lot of people feel safer in their own neighborhoods, even in high-crime neighborhoods," St. Jean said. "They think they understand the logic of crime in a way that excludes them as victims."

    A slight majority, 52 percent, doesn't feel any safer in the suburban towns outside Buffalo, according to the poll.

    "The suburbs are unfamiliar terrain to them," St. Jean said. "It's just a big blur of uncertainty to them. Uncertainty to them means fear and concern."

    The timing of the poll could have been a factor in this question. The poll was conducted shortly after the highly publicized slaying of Clarence resident Joan Diver.

    Feeling less safe in the suburbs was one question that split largely along racial lines.

    Whites were almost evenly divided, with 49 percent saying they didn't feel safer in the suburbs, and 47 percent saying they did. Among African-Americans, the margin was 67 to 29.

    "They're thinking of victimization not only from the criminals, but also from the police," St. Jean said. "They're thinking about police brutality and profiling . . . and hate crimes."

    The poll also found that one in nine Buffalo respondents has a gun for personal safety.

    "I'm surprised that 11 percent of voters admit they have a gun for their personal safety," said Greenberg, the consultant. "I did not expect it to be that high, and it's across the board. There's very little demographic difference, either race or party or age."

    The poll also suggests many people simply have given up on the idea that the police can do anything, said Hopson-Clemons, the block club activist.

    Several weeks ago, she called 911 after seeing someone break into a nearby abandoned house. A police officer responded, and she showed him where she saw the burglar enter.

    The officer asked her: "What do you want me to do about it?" "Check your job description," she replied.

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    Arrest made in shooting of youth on Landon Street

    11/1/2006

    A Pershing Avenue man has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 17-year-old youth Monday afternoon on Landon Street.
    Meanwhile, Buffalo homicide investigators continue to search for the gunman who killed a West Side teenager Monday afternoon on 15th Street. The two shootings of teenagers in broad daylight are believed to be unrelated and occurred on opposite sides of the city.

    Sedric Morris, 17, of Kingsley Street, was listed in fair condition Tuesday in Erie County Medical Center. Someone armed with a .45-caliber handgun shot him in the back at about 4:10 p.m. in the 200 block of Landon, police said.

    Lydell D. Jones Jr., 20, was charged with attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal use of a firearm, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration.

    Officers Mark Costantino and Jerry Guilian arrested Jones within minutes of the shooting after he got out of a car, ran into his Pershing Avenue home and then fought with officers, according to police reports.

    In the other shooting, Josean Santiago, 16, of West Avenue, became the city's 65th homicide victim so far this year. That number compares with 56 in all of 2005.

    Police said Santiago was shot once in the back at about 3:30 p.m. on 15th Street, near Hampshire Street, on the city's West Side. Witnesses reported seeing two men running through yards following the gunfire. No arrest has been made.

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    ECMC offers to scan Halloween treats

    11/1/2006

    Erie County Medical Center once again will scan Halloween treats to make sure they don't contain dangerous metallic items.
    The hospital's radiology department will offer free fluoroscope examination of treats to find pins, needles, razor blades and the like from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Thursday.

    The fluoroscopic process will not harm the treats, but ECMC makes no claim otherwise that the treats are guaranteed safe. Nonmetallic substances, such as glass, plastic or injected materials, can not be detected.

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    Police charge man, 19, in shooting of accuser

    11/2/2006

    Martell L. Jordan, 19, of East Utica Street, has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a man who accused him in a robbery, police reported.
    Vance Whetstone, 34, of Washington Street, was struck twice in the back as he sat in a vehicle on Jewett Avenue near Fillmore Avenue at about 10:30 a.m. Oct. 20. He spent five days in Erie County Medical Center.

    Whetstone may have been targeted because he pressed robbery charges the previous week against Jordan, police said. In that robbery, a man with a black 9 mm handgun stole $1,300 from Whetstone, police said.

    Northeast District Officers William Small and Leona Flowers arrested Jordan on Holden Avenue Monday afternoon. Jordan also was charged with assault, robbery, false personation for giving officers an incorrect name and unlawful possession of marijuana after a small amount of the drug was found in his coat pocket in the Erie County Holding Center, authorities said.

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