The WNY Listening Post

Four-Year-Old Pulled From Marriott Pool On Millersport — Conscious And Breathing

Multi-agency response to 1340 Millersport Highway at 9:39 p.m.; child came up alert and talking to EMS within minutes.

At 9:39 p.m. Saturday, Amherst PD aired a child-drowning call routed to the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, for “a four-year-old child who was drowning” in the hotel pool.^[2] The earliest indication from the Amherst Fire dispatch channel was less polished — a clipped transmission three minutes prior simply reading “Buffalo Marriott, host in the pool.”^[3] By the time the police call came across, dispatch had a critical update on the same breath: “She's now out of the pool, conscious and alert, breathing.”^[2]

An Eggertsville EMS unit was paged to the call alongside Twin City Ambulance, and within roughly six minutes a unit on scene confirmed the child was “alert, conscious, and talking to EMS.”^[4] No transport status escalation surfaced on the air for the rest of the window. As scanner outcomes go, this is the best possible — but the multi-agency tone and the parallel paging on both the police and fire trunks read as a heart-stopper for everyone involved.

Mom Watches Camera, Son Walks: 150 Donnelly Found “Totally In Disarray” By Sunrise

At 1:25 a.m., an Amherst PD call from 150 Donnelly was routed in a way you don't often hear — the complainant was the suspect's mother, calling from work after watching her son leave the house on a security camera in apparent violation of his house arrest. Dispatch read the warning history aloud: a black male in a red jacket carrying a duffel bag, identified by name with a prior warning that he “fled on foot from officers, resisted arrest, was held at Taser point.”^[5] Mom couldn't leave work to respond to the house. Officers requested permission for an interior check at 1:35 a.m. and reported back that “a bunch of furniture is overturned”; by 1:42 a.m. the conversation had escalated: “Can you call the mom? There's an immense amount of damage. This house is totally in disarray, and she's gotta come back here.”^[6] Mom remained unable to respond. A probation-officer callback was still pending an hour later.

Gray Kia Driver Tells Other Motorist She'll “Get Some Friends To Get Some Guns And Come Back”

A hit-and-run aired at 12:51 a.m. at Millersport and Maple, with the complainant — in a red Ford Explorer — following the striking vehicle (a gray Kia) into the 2400 block of North Forest before disconnecting from 911. When the call thread resumed minutes later, dispatch passed along an extraordinary threat from the Kia driver to the Explorer's occupants: “She was going to get some friends to get some guns and come back.”^[7] The Kia driver was described as female. Officers checked the area, including a sweep behind Creekview Court, with negative results in the immediate window. Worth a property-side note: the threat-to-return language is the sort that sometimes escalates several hours later.

Motel 6 Knife Standoff Slides Into Held-Against-Will Call; Extended Stay America Has An Unconscious Male

The Williamsville-corridor hotels had a rough overnight. At 11:34 p.m., Amherst PD took a call at Motel 6, 4400 Maple Road, Room 201 — boyfriend refusing to leave, verbal only, “known to have a small pocket knife in the room.”^[8] By 12:12 a.m. the address had shifted to Room 208, with a different female reporting she was being prevented from leaving: “Female inside Room 208 and apparently preventing her from leaving. We're trying to figure out how she knows this information.”^[9]

Two miles north, at 1:16 a.m., Amherst Fire dispatch paged Ellicott Creek EMS to the Extended Stay America Hotel, 125 Innkeepers Lane, off Niagara Falls Boulevard, for “an approximately 45-year-old male, unconscious, reported to be breathing” outside Room 104.^[10] The presentation is consistent with a possible overdose; no transport status surfaced in the available window.

Amherst Fire Knocks Down Dumpster At 297 Traverse Boulevard

The shift opened with a small dumpster fire at 9:09 p.m. at 297 Traverse Boulevard / Sutton Place Apartments, dispatched to Amherst Fire with units “close the doors” on a quick interior arrival and a clear at 9:10 p.m. shortly after.^[11] No spread reported.

“Paula” Found On The Ground At Dawn — Male Fled In Black Car Southbound To Harlem Road

At 6:21 a.m., an Amherst PD officer relayed that a complainant identified on dispatch as Paula had been “beat up by a male who left, and now she's having trouble breathing,” lying outside on the ground.^[12] Minutes later, dispatch added that the male had fled southbound toward Harlem Road in a black car; the complainant said she had no idea who he was.^[13] By 6:30 a.m., the case posture had quieted in a familiar way: “The female is not very cooperative, not telling us what happened, so that's where we're at right now.”^[14]

Bike Thief Tries To Take It Out Of Her Garage, So She Drives Him Home

At 9:19 p.m., an Amherst PD officer was sent to 247 Sunrise for a “suspicious occurrence” that turned out to be one of the more singular call summaries of the year. Dispatch, deadpan: “Regarding the male that tried to take the bike out of her garage — and then she gave him a ride.”^[15] No further explanation was broadcast. The complainant called police after the ride had ended; one assumes there is more to this story than the radio cared to disclose. Anti-bike-theft etiquette in 14221: apparently extends to door-to-door service.

AirTag In A Stolen Wallet Quietly Pings Its Way Back To Amherst — Tied To A Kenmore Armed Robbery

At 9:45 p.m., Amherst PD asked a unit to ride through a parking lot “there” because “apparently they had an AirTag that was stolen with a wallet, and it's mapping into that area, and it was part of that blue Ford Explorer that was stolen.”^[16] Thirteen minutes later, the connection got bigger: officers, sorting through who claimed what, noted “there was that shot that came out earlier before the 290 call — that blue Explorer, I believe it's armed robbery out at Kenmore.”^[17] Buffalo PD Control was asked to take possession of the vehicle as evidence. The mundane lesson, again: tag your wallet.

Caller Reports A Lawn Mower At 6:30 A.M. From 288 Shetland; Officer Can Stand Down

At 6:33 a.m., Amherst PD let Unit 6 off the hook: “6, you can stop now — 288 Shetland for the lawn mowing at 6:30 a.m.”^[18] The mow continued, presumably, undisturbed. The complainant remains, in dispatch records, both correct about the time and outvoted by the legal definition of a residential nuisance.

Loose Four-Wheeler Northbound On Campbell At 3 A.M.; Officer Politely Gives Up

At 3:01 a.m., an Amherst officer spotted a four-wheeler northbound on Campbell at French, attempted a stop, then immediately reconsidered: “Didn't stop. I turned the lights off and not following anymore.”^[19] The ATV continued its independent existence into the early-morning hours. Whether it was on Campbell to make a point or just on the way somewhere is unrecorded on the trunked Amherst-Clarence channel.

Stranger Reports Female Asleep In His Gray Toyota, Cannot Wake Her

At 3:59 a.m., an Amherst officer aired the kind of summary you don't often hear on a Saturday-into-Sunday: “Gray Toyota says there's a female sleeping in his car, and she's not waking.”^[20] No further context was provided on the channel as to how she came to be there. The car's owner, evidently, was reporting himself the inconvenienced party.

11:58 p.m. · Amherst PD · 5363 Main Street — hit-and-run reported about three hours after the fact; complainant initially unreachable.^[21]

2:57 a.m. · Buffalo Fire Ch. 1 dispatch · Engine 37 sent to 15 Hodge, between Delaware and Elmwood, upper apartment, for a male having a seizure.^[22]

1:58 a.m. · Cleveland Hill / Cheektowaga FD dispatch · 79 Loretto Drive, between Parrish and Seton — 59-year-old female with difficulty breathing.^[23]

3:36 a.m. · Cheektowaga FD dispatch · 7 Royal Palm Drive, between Sassonwood and Surfside — 62-year-old female out of bed, T2A response.^[24]

4:11 a.m. · Amherst Fire dispatch · Clarence EMS to Brothers of Mercy Nursing & Rehab, 10570 Bergtold Road, Clarence Center, Room 312 — 37-year-old female with a head injury (between Autumn Trail and Ransom Road).^[25]

5:42 a.m. · Buffalo PD Ch. 3 Simulcast · Humboldt and Brunswick — accident with injury; multiple Edward units assigned in sequence.^[26]

6:38 a.m. · Town-of-Hamburg FD dispatch · 9395 Blanchard Road, between Blackside and Hayes Hollow — medical for an 83-year-old female.^[27]

5:57 a.m. · Orleans County FD-EMS paging · 4-5 West Yates Center Road, between Marshall Road and North Lindsville Road — 79-year-old female fell.^[28]

5:49 a.m. · Wyoming County Fire 1 · Medic 80 sent on a request — 34-year-old female reporting heart palpitations, shortness of breath, numbness.^[29]

6:12 a.m. · Amherst PD · Caller in the Main / Plains area reports a large hole in the middle of the road, “possibly the start of a sinkhole.”^[30]

11:30 p.m. / 4:23 a.m. · Amherst PD · Two separate alarm calls overnight at the Progressive House Counsel office, 6400 Main Street, Suite 120 — front-door alarms, status updated each time.^[31]

1:05 a.m. · Amherst PD · Commercial alarm at the Hula Supermarket, 3175 Sheridan Drive.^[32]

11:51 p.m. · Amherst PD · Damage at the Marathon gas station, 4220 Sheridan Drive; officer also asked to check 214 Roycroft.^[33]

4:15 a.m. · Amherst PD · Unoccupied black Nissan Altima at the bottom of the I-990 ramp to Sweet Home Road; complainant requested to stay with the vehicle.^[34]