Amherst · Maple & Millersport

OnStar Activated by a Man Claiming a Woman Was Kidnapping Him; Amherst PD Tracks the Gray Acadia Down Maple to a Delta Sonic Parking Lot

At 2:42 a.m. Amherst PD asked a car to check the area of Maple and Amherst Manor — then quickly redirected to Maple and Flint. The reason, dispatch explained, was a first-of-its-kind OnStar activation: “Plane in is OnStar so that a male occupant was claiming a female was kidnapping him in a gray GMC Acadia”. The response back over the air made it clear even the dispatcher wanted to be sure she’d heard it correctly: “10-4, just for clarification, the female is kidnapping the male allegedly”

Within four minutes officers had the gray GMC Acadia in sight behind Sweet Home Middle School and then westbound on westbound on Maple Road[*] out of the IHOP lot. Multiple patrol cars followed as it kept moving. At 2:48 the traffic stop happened at Delta Sonic on Sheridan Drive. The driver was described by the responding officer as “extremely uncooperative with us, trying to decide for herself what it is, all calm” and refused to say where the alleged male victim had gone.

By 2:55 the male party was said to be named “Henry Ford,” description-wise a black male “wearing a black robe” — the only details officers could get from the woman on scene. No formal charges came over the air before the case was handed off, though a request went out to alert Tonawanda that the driver was likely heading home. What began as a kidnapping call had ended, ambiguously, in a car-wash parking lot.

Amherst · Sunridge Park

A Kid With a Knife Chasing Other Kids at Sunridge Park Sets Off a Five-Hour Chain of Callbacks to 300 Sunridge

At 6:11 p.m., an Amherst PD call went out for a subject last seen running eastbound on Glen Avon after reportedly chasing children in the park with a knife. Almost immediately the officers on scene added the important caveat: “The complainant never saw the knife, she was just told that”. Six minutes later, officers were tracking a suspected juvenile to 257 Glenhaven Drive on the right — fed to them, they noted, by “one of the children here.”

By 6:19 the report had grown, then narrowed: “the group of girls that were involved in the fight” at 300 Sunridge Drive[*], described by a caller only as “the group of girls that were involved in the fight.” Officers ran names, checked the address, and eventually cleared — but at 11:09 p.m. the same address returned to the dispatch screen, this time as “ongoing issues with the children there — they’re outside playing and being loud.” Dispatch offered a pointed reminder: “when they were out there earlier today, the children were pulling knives on other kids, so pull them off until they can get you something else”

By 11:26 the responding unit had made the connection to the earlier call and requested history on the location. “It sounded like it started at Sunridge Park, but we’ve had history with them on the left,” the officer noted before radioing back to say no one was outside — they’d try to make contact just to advise. The complaint closed with no arrests, no crime substantiated, and the same address on the screen it had started on five and a half hours earlier.

Amherst · American Campus

Amherst PD Sent to a Woman Screaming With Her Daughter at American Campus, Male Half Hiding in the Garage of 441B — a Full-Stay-Away Order at the Center of It

At 3:45 p.m., an Amherst PD unit reported that at unit 441 a female had come out screaming with her daughter, her hands red, refusing EMS but asking for police. The male half, dispatch said, was hiding in the garage at 441B. A second broadcast a minute later added: the female half was also going to be in that garage, “hiding in the garage — that’s where she’ll be”.

Officers arriving inside 283 American Campus Drive found a woman who “doesn’t speak a lick of English”, and who handed them what turned out to be an order of protection. A records check pulled up the paperwork: a full stay-away with ML Roth as the protected party and Sabah L. McTarr as the respondent. Officers ran two more names off the paperwork — Robert Adam Union Frank and Adam Michael Edward Lincoln — with no matching OP under either.

The complainant’s sister had a phone number; the complainant had a phone number; the alleged subject did not answer his. “This looks like a custody agreement from the court,” one officer said after leafing through it. Twenty minutes later CPS was on the line, describing a female caller asserting a domestic at an “alternative address”, and the child — Omar Ocean Mary Adam Robert, DOB 11/25/2017 — was named on the CAD. Officers cleared the call under RESOLVED with no arrest documented on the air.

Amherst · Wehrle Drive

The Alarm Was Real, the Fire Was Not — Just a Smoke Detector Screaming From Inside a Garbage Can on Wehrle

Amherst PD to a fire alarm complaint on Wehrle at 6:12 p.m.: “I located the alarm going off. It was actually a smoke alarm. It was in the garbage can of 1570 Wehrle Drive”. The officer’s report from 1570 Wehrle Drive continues to be a strong contender for calmest arrival of the night.

Snyder · 1540 Maple Road

White Male With a Duffel Bag at the Sisters ER Would Like to Speak to an Officer About the FBI, His Ex-Wife, and a Plot Against His Life

10:21 p.m., Amherst PD to a complainant waiting by the ER entrance at 1540 1540 Maple Road — the address for Sisters of Charity Hospital in Snyder. He “claims that the FBI knew that his ex-wife was trying to have him killed and he wants to speak to an officer about it”, dispatch said. Officers were asked to look for a white male with a duffel bag; whether the conversation happened, and how it went, did not come back over the air.

Amherst · Robin Ridge Apartments

Complaint at Robin Ridge: A Man Smoking in the Smoking Area Has the Caller So Upset She Is Reportedly Having Trouble Breathing

Amherst PD to Robin Ridge Apartments at 942 942 Robin Road, 7:38 p.m. The complaint: a mixed-race male in a green shirt and pants, sitting and smoking “in the smoking area”. The caller’s condition, per dispatch: “very upset, causing her to have difficulty breathing”

Niagara Region · Embassy Suites

A Housekeeper’s Report From an Embassy Suites Guest Room: The Curtain Rod for the Sheer and the Blackout Is No Longer Attached to the Wall

Embassy Control, 3:21 p.m., to PBX: “for this room, I’m not sure which one, is not attached properly to the wall”. Clarified over four transmissions: “it’s the curtain rod for the sheer and the blackouts”. The body wash and other amenities holders were separately reported broken about an hour later. Housekeeping’s work never quite ends.

Buffalo · BroadwayTaxi

BroadwayTaxi Dispatcher, on the Radio at 10:20 p.m., Delivers the Full Company Handbook to a Driver Who Just Wanted to Ditch a Fare

Overheard on the BroadwayTaxi trunk at 10:20 p.m., over five back-to-back transmissions to one driver: “They’ll come out in a timely fashion. You have every right to pull off, but communicate to the dispatcher that you are pulling off so that I know what’s going on. If you pull off, and you don’t get the trip, and they call back, you have to communicate with me, y’all know it’s $15” It was radio management as HR policy, delivered live, and it ended, three minutes later, with the perfect closer: “Don’t go to me, go to Brian. I’m not gatekeeping your money, I’m just working the job; our job is supposed to be work”

Amherst · Boulevard

1951 The Boulevard, Room 144: A Guest Is Very Displeased That the Children Are Riding Scooters in Front of Her Room

Amherst PD, 8:12 p.m., to the hotel front desk at 1951 The Boulevard, room 144: the guest — name transcribed as Ann Hurston — “is upset that kids are riding their scooters in front of the room.” Screens updated, unit cleared; the world spun on.

Amherst · 67 Mount Vernon

Two Solicitors Pitching Garbage-Can Cleaning Along Mount Vernon Reportedly Under the Influence; Complainant Wants Them Off Her Block

Amherst PD to 67 67 Mount Vernon Road[*] [heard: 67 Mt. Blue] at 5:55 p.m. for “the two solicitors going door to door trying to sell a garbage can cleaning service”. Descriptions were relayed: “one white male, thin build, black hair, tattoos, and the other one is a Hispanic male with curly hair and a white shirt”. The complainant thinks they are under the influence; last seen walking eastbound.

Niagara County · Lockport & Ward

Two-Car Crash at Lockport and Ward Sets One Vehicle on Fire; Berkholz Fire Requests Extra Manpower

At 6:58 p.m., Niagara County Fire Control toned out a motor vehicle accident at Lockport & Ward — two vehicles, one on fire — with Berkholz Track Community first-in and Attack Two assigned. Two minutes later a manpower call went out over the same trunk, and dispatch confirmed the fire on the involved car at 7:01 p.m. Additional units responded from the Berkholz Frontier station.

Buffalo · Working Fire

Buffalo Fire on the Ground Floor Moving Up to the Second; Crews Still Working the Room

Buffalo Fire’s tactical channel picked up an active working fire at 6:32 p.m.: “No fire yet”, one crew reported. “I think this is moving up to the second floor”. By 6:36, another company was still working the room. Dispatch cleared main-band status at 3000 hours shortly after.

Wyoming County · Cowlesville

Semi-Versus-Passenger Vehicle at Cowlesville Draws Hazmat Mutual Aid for an Oil Spill in the Roadway

At 6:06 a.m., Wyoming County Fire Control put out a two-vehicle MVA “involving a semi or a cement truck”. Twenty-eight minutes later a mutual-aid page went out for a hazmat team to respond to Cowlesville — 158 Fuller Street area — “for an oil spill from motor vehicle accident”. East Aurora FD staged a landing zone at the scene; power lines back in the woods were flagged but not blocking.

Cheektowaga · Buffalo Airport Hotel

Vision-Impaired Care Recipient Walks Off From His Room at 4630 Genesee With a Walker; Caregiver Notes He Has an Outstanding Buffalo Warrant

Cheektowaga PD to 4630 4630 Genesee Street, the Buffalo Airport Hotel, at 12:33 a.m. Dispatch relayed the caregiver’s report: “the sub just took his medication, left on foot with a walker; the sub is vision impaired”. The subject was said to be waiting in room 418, and to have a Buffalo warrant. A sergeant covered.