Daughter Calls Amherst PD to Robin Hill After Father “Possibly Sliced the Victim With a Knife” — No Knife Recovered
Robin Hill Drive between Cedarwood and Birchwood · 19:33 → 19:46.
Amherst PD walked into a layered domestic on Robin Hill Drive Thursday evening after a daughter called from inside the house saying her father had gotten through the front door and was refusing to leave.[1] The first read on the radio was calm — “at this time, he is calming down… nobody’s getting physical, there’s just no weapons in the house either” — but within two minutes the call deepened.[1] A son who was also on location phoned back to say he believed his father “possibly sliced the victim with a knife,” though officers reported no knife in place; the subject was outside the residence and the family had locked him out.[2] By 19:46 the supervisor called “all cars resume normal air traffic” on Robin Hill, suggesting the situation was contained at the door.[3]
DevelopingThree Uninvited Teens Show Up on Wehrle Drive at 1:54 a.m. — Arguing With a 14-Year-Old, “Extensive History There for Domestics, Mentals”
86 Wehrle Drive (transcript heard the road as “Worley”) · 01:54 → 01:56.
Amherst dispatch sent units to 86 Wehrle Drive at 1:54 a.m. on an “unknown trouble” after a caller said three teens she didn’t know had shown up uninvited and were arguing with her 14-year-old brother.[4] Records returned the kind of caution that travels with a familiar address — “no warnings, but there is some extensive history there for domestics, mentals,” the dispatcher said over the air.[5] An officer reading the file out loud connected it to a late-April call to the same residence in which a brother named “Christ Alexander” had been encountered in the backyard — “apparently he had a knife in his hand.”[6] No follow-up transmissions during this window indicated arrest or transport.
Two Pickup Trucks Collide at Covent Garden and Maple — Amherst PD Asks for a Video Report
Covent Garden Lane at Maple Road · 16:26.
An Amherst PD officer asked if anyone could take a “video accident involving two pickup trucks, Covent Garden and Maple” just after 4:26 p.m. Thursday.[7] The call coincided with an unrelated medical call at the nearby Prairie Pond Apartments (St. David Drive and Hopkins), keeping the Amherst Fire dispatcher busy on a parallel track.[8] No injuries were called for the truck collision in the segments that followed; treatment in this section reflects the conservative read.
Niagara Falls Boulevard Drive-Thru Employee Threatened: “Threatened to Shoot Them” — Blue SUV Heads South
Niagara Falls Boulevard · 22:23.
At 10:23 p.m., Amherst PD ran a call from an employee at a Niagara Falls Boulevard drive-thru who said someone in line had threatened to shoot them.[9] The complainant did not see a gun, the dispatcher noted, and the suspect vehicle — a blue SUV — left southbound on the Boulevard.[9] Within minutes an officer was running plates from a parking lot off Bailey on what appeared to be a related stop; no arrest was confirmed before the channel moved on.[10]
131 Princeton Apartment 4: Brother Hits Brother, Suspect “Lives Over at 445 Allenhurst”
131 Princeton Court, Apt. 4 (Amherst) · 21:26.
A domestic-trouble call at 131 Princeton, Apt. 4 was dispatched around 9:26 p.m., with the original complaint involving a party named Donald Barnes for whom officers said they already had a warning.[11] Officers described the suspect as a Black male in a black jacket, “probably 185 pounds,” who had just hit a relative in the face and left; a follow-up identified the principal as Michael Coleman, “looks like he lives over at 445 Allenhurst.”[12] An officer recalled having dealt with the same complainant the previous week, when the subject was “under the influence of 220 and had a very large size in his waistband … also very confrontational.”[13] By 9:42 an Amherst officer reported the subject in custody in front of 469 Allenhurst.[14]
Bedroom-Window Banger: Son Threatens to “Throw the Mom Out of the House”
Amherst-Clarence · 00:36 → 00:45.
Just past midnight, Amherst PD ran a call from a mother locked in her bedroom while her son was “banging on the bedroom window, pacing around, threatening to throw the mom out of the house.”[15] Roughly nine minutes later an officer back-cleared the call with what sounded like a quiet outcome: “Upper, both parties negative, up two, no OPs.”[16] No arrest was indicated on the air before crews returned to service.
Welfare Check on Maple Road: An Elderly Woman Walking the Shoulder, “Struggling”
1800 block of Maple Road · 16:18.
Amherst PD asked an officer to handle a welfare check at 1800 Maple Road for an elderly female walking on the north side of the road, “moving very slowly, and it looks like she’s struggling.”[17] Eight minutes later, a separate elderly-female fall call from a different Amherst address produced one of the day’s grimmer field updates — the subject had “fallen twice and appears to have possibly defecated herself,” with officers requesting Twin City Ambulance for evaluation.[18] The two incidents were not connected on the radio.
39 Snyder Woods Court Calls the Cops on a Spectrum Van — “Tried Hiding in the Front Seat”
39 Snyder Woods Court (Amherst) · 23:52.
A late-night Amherst PD call from 39 Snyder Woods Court flagged a “special person with a vehicle complaint” about a Spectrum van parked in front of the house.[19] The dispatcher relayed that “part of the complaint is they tried hiding in the front seat … we advise[d] them they’re doing work, and they did not believe us.”[19] Cable installers, the caller, and the front seat of a service van walked away from this one in roughly equal condition.
Clarence Residential Fire-Alarm Activation, 5145 Krause
5145 Krause Road, Clarence · 00:24.
Amherst Fire dispatch toned Clarence for a residential fire-alarm activation at 5145 Krause at 12:24 a.m., repeating the address at 12:25.[20] Crews ran a two-and-a-half-story disclosure on the structure a few minutes later, consistent with a confirm-and-investigate response.[21] No fire was confirmed on the air before crews returned to service.
“Hey Luke, It’s the Buffalo Goose” — The Larkin Building’s Most Cryptic 2:42 a.m. Hello
At 2:42 a.m., over the Larkin Building’s in-house security radio, an unidentified voice opened with what may be the strangest cold-call in Buffalo broadcasting: “Hey Luke, it’s the Buffalo Goose.”[22] Eighteen seconds of silence later, the same voice asked — with the politeness of a maitre d’ — “Do you want me to grab it for you real quick?” Luke, apparently a man who knows what he wants, said yes.[23] The Goose did not transmit again.
Amherst PD After the Arrest: “We All Grabbed a Soapy and Then I Had to Recover”
Cleanup chatter on Amherst-Clarence at 9:27 p.m. produced the night’s most quietly devastating one-liner from an officer wrapping up the 131 Princeton domestic.[24] “We all grabbed a soapy and then I had to recover,” the officer said — an entire genre of police work compressed into ten words.
Delta Ramp’s Mid-Push Mantra: “Bong, Bong, Hua”
At 7:33 p.m., a Delta ramp lead keyed up on BNIA Ramp Ops and delivered a complete utterance: “Bong, bong, hua.”[25] Whether code, chant, sneeze, or coffee deprivation, it was the most rhythmically committed transmission of the window. A minute later he was back to business: “The bag is on the carousel.”[26]
B-N Tower, Apropos of Nothing: “Reviled”
At 5:27 p.m., Buffalo Tower came on frequency with a single, perfect, ungrammatical word — “Reviled” — and then went silent again.[27] We have spent the day trying to find the second half of that sentence. We have not.
American Airlines Confirms an Inbound With Maximum Western New York Energy: “Cool Beans”
On the BNIA airline trunk at 9:31 p.m., an American Airlines ramp voice took an ETA — “Oh yeah, I got an estimated time of 10:28” — and signed off with “Cool beans.”[28] Two words, and you can already smell the chicken wings.
ITOA Cab Dispatcher Quietly Recruits for a Birthday Bar Hop on the Open Channel
On the ITOA taxi channel at 3:19 p.m., a dispatcher addressed the entire fleet with what sounded less like a job and more like a personal invitation: “birthday bar hopping party. Whoever’s interested, come and see me.”[29] No follow-up segment indicated takers, but the night was young.
Cheektowaga’s Most Awkward Custody Exchange: Property, a Dog, and an Ex Working Hotel Security
Cheektowaga PD took a call from a woman trying to drop “some property and a dog off to her ex who’s security over at the hotel, but he’s refusing to come out and collect it.”[30] Officers worked it from both sides — the dog, presumably, did the math — and dispatch eventually rerouted to “the M-Hotel” to broker the handoff.[31]
Amherst PD Asks Dispatch to Run a Serial Number on a 12-Gauge Pump — At 1:24 a.m., As One Does
“Do you run a serial number for a 12-gauge shotgun when you’re ready?” an Amherst officer asked at 1:24 a.m., reading off “2-0-0-5-5-8-6-6” like a Powerball ticket.[32] Dispatch came back with “Here’s me a 12-gauge pump … that works on that” — a clean record on a long-barrel hour usually reserved for cardiac calls.[33]
23:55 on Audley and Greenaway: A Barking Dog Goes to the Top of the Stack
With three minutes left in Thursday, Amherst dispatch announced “a barking dog in the area of Audley and Greenaway” — the kind of call that exists chiefly to remind you that the radio never sleeps and neither does the dog.[34]
BuffaloLimo at 6:40 p.m. Pivots Mid-Air into Public Radio: “I’m Adam, and Thanks to Aaron, a Lot of These Walk-Ins Are Going to Be Free.”
A BuffaloLimo dispatcher held the channel for thirty seconds in what sounded for all the world like a pledge drive from inside a town car: “One of the neighbors approached me … I’m Adam, and thanks to Aaron, a lot of these walk-ins are going to be free.”[35] No follow-up confirmed what Aaron was paying for.
Topps Distribution Center Trips a Water-Flow Alarm From Deck 4 at 12:30 a.m. — Lancaster Companies Roll
5873 Genesee Street, Lancaster · 00:30.
Lancaster fire dispatch called Bowman’s Bowmansville companies to the Topps Distribution Center at 5873 Genesee Street at 12:30 a.m., repeating moments later that the activation was a water-flow alarm “coming from Deck 4.”[36] No working fire was declared on the air before the assignment cleared.
Two-Vehicle MVA at Midland and Townline, Wendelville — “One of the Vehicles Had Smoking”
Midland Road at Townline Road, Wendelville · 06:18.
Niagara County Fire Control toned Wendelville at 6:18 a.m. for a two-vehicle MVA at Midland and Townline; the read on the air was a passenger “self-extricated,” one of the vehicles “had smoking,” injuries unknown.[37] Crew were placed on the FT-PAC-1 working channel.
Other Calls of Note
Park Tower 77, Niagara Falls. NC Fire dispatched EMS at 3:30 p.m. for a 52-year-old with abdominal pain at the senior tower on Main Street; patient was staged “in the main lobby between the locust and the pine.”[38]
Possible stroke, East Avenue, Niagara County. 91-year-old male with blurred speech and dizziness on a 30-minute onset, between Coleman and High; ALS toned at 7:37 p.m.[39]
Cardiac, 4505 Pomeroy Avenue. NC Fire dispatched at 11:40 p.m. for a 66-year-old male with chest pain, difficulty breathing, and a cardiac history.[40]
Cleveland Hill / Pleasant Parkway possible stroke. CFD requested EMS at 10:02 p.m. for a 93-year-old female, possible stroke, 311 North Pleasant Parkway.[41]
Wales Center EMS, 4314 Two Rod Road. EAFD toned at 11:49 p.m. for a 91-year-old between Big Tree and the Wales-Marilla town line.[42]
Buffalo PD shoplift to fight, 23:11. A father chased into Ferry-area chatter as units coordinated a custody handoff on a stolen vehicle. (Brief reference, no resolution on air.)[43]
Cheektowaga, Quality Inn 4217. Officers were called at 2:29 a.m. to escort a guest out of Room 119 for causing a disturbance; unknown number of occupants.[44]
Eggert Solar, 1789 Eggert Road, Amherst. A second-floor smoke detector triggered a fire-alarm activation at 4:34 p.m.; toned as a follow-on alarm activation.[45]
Roja Coffee House, 3500 Main, Amherst. Amherst PD asked a nearby unit to clear an alarm at 11:02 p.m. from the front motion sensor.[46]
Cleveland Drive / 2040 Walden, Cheektowaga. 911 hang-up with no answer on callback at 1:05 a.m.; unit dispatched, single-call status.[47]
Anxiety call, 121 Evans, Apt. 305 (Amherst). Amherst self-prep ambulance request at 3:38 a.m. for a 39-year-old female with an anxiety attack.[48]
Williams-area medical, 2229 N. French Road, Apt. 2 (Prairie Pond / Ferry Pond Apartments). 52-year-old female with heart-rate and faint feeling at 4:25 p.m.[49]