BuffScan Roundup for December 14, 2025

12/14/2025

Spotter Watch - Spotters on The Spot

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• Amherst NY Scanner presents a TikTok showing off a police presence at an apparently abandoned 7-11 during active business hours.
• Buffalo Fire Department-Helmets & Hose Wagons shares some response porn of Larkinville Engine Co.32 and Ladder Co.5 answering a call from the Swan Street area station.
• 716 Street News posted a montage of car crashes and other road havoc as a result of this week's truly winter weather. Set 1. Set 2. And, 716 was also able to capture video of a hit and run at Fillmore and Sycamore. Finally, 716 was also able to compile the results of a Buffalo Police chase involving a stolen KIA. Here's a separate photo montage. The chase culminated in a four vehicle crash.
• Tim Newkirk shot video of what appears to be an active ministry dispensation of food and sustenance at E. Utica and Humboldt.
• The Southtown Scanners shows off smoke from the new Bills stadium which turned out to be the result of a malfunctioning fan.

** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

• BAUGHMAN, CASSANDRA-LYI
• BISHOP, DAVID A
• CORREA, ANGEL
• MANG, SHAWN
• MARKS, CHRISTOPHER
• PRICE, SHERMAN A
• SANDERS, EBONY
• SIMMONS, DANTONIO
• UNDERWOOD, ANTHONY
• ZAMAN, ISHRAK

** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

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BuffScan Roundup for December 13, 2025

12/13/2025

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• A deadly mass shooting incident occurring at Brown University tonight happened within miles of Buffalo Bills lodging - everyone is safe. Tipped off on X by Dianna Russini.
• Amherst NY Scanner shows off footage from the Akron Christmas parade. Personally I think it woke this editor's Christmas spirit.
• Amherst NY Scanner also posted images from what can best be described as a tussle of ideology. Amherst NY Scanner's caption says someone called police on protesters for "filming" them but the it appears the police determined that the protesters were simply wearing body cameras.
• Buffalo and the surrounding metro areas felt the full brunt of the season's first strong snow storm. Amherst NY Scanner tops off its posting today with a video of conditions out on the road.
• Buffalo Fire Department-Helmets & Hose Wagons proudly announces Buffalo's newest Battalion Chief Sean Eagen.
• 716 Street News published pictures of a death investigation in the Buffalo's East Side. The post headlines that a man was found deceased inside a van.
• 716 Street News posted video of a burglary investigation on Baily Avenue.
• Erie County County Blotter gives Christmas hugs and loves to its followers in a heartful post to the season.
• The Southtown Scanners posts its own heavy weather onslaught video of conditions on the 219. Be careful out there!

** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

• COLLAZO, JOSE
• CURRIE, JESSE
• DOBBS, CHASE
• FOFANA, MOHAMED
• KAMARA, MOHAMMED
• LOPEZ, RAMON L
• LOVE, JAMES E
• LOVE, LEROY
• LOVELL, ERIC
• MATOS-SANTANA, RYAN J
• MCCLAIN, GEORGE J
• RAMSEY, JAMES E
• RAY, DANTE
• RODRIGUEZ, GILBERTO
• SPADA, ZACHARY
• SPIGNER, MARSHONE M
• STROUD, KEYANNA N
• WASHINGTON, JAYSEAN
• YOUNG, MARKEETA

** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

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Students' Imaginations Track

12/12/2025

Buffalo Light Rail, Best Days Ahead

UB Small Built Works Project students discuss light rail with Citizens for Regional Transit representative Jim Gordon.

Buffalo has a light rail system, yes.

But you ain't seen nothing yet.

No, there's no money on the table, no promise to even initiate the studies - beyond those already in play for the proposed Amherst extension anyway (which ain't nothing to be sure).

But even so there are factors in play that guarantee Buffalo will one day see the completion of a sprawling transit rail network beyond its current stunted line.

Buffalo is for example regarded as a "Climate Refuge City" which means it will, as coastline cities become increasingly unstable under evident disruptive climate changes be a tempting place to bring back industry over the long haul.

Aligning student design expertise from UB's School of Architecture and Planning's Small Built Works Project with the visionaries of the Citizens for Regional Transit (CRT), ideas for a vastly expanded light rail network throughout Buffalo were presented to a filled room of the curious, advocates, and feet-wetters like yours truly.

BuffScan isn't about light rail in the Buffalo area but I'm known for such websites and am poising to kick of one for the Buffalo area, which maybe the coverage of Buffalo light rail I've been giving may have since hinted. The students at UB have sketched the vision, and the CRT is holding the map. As for me? I’m ready to build the digital infrastructure to track it all.

Stay tuned.

UB Small Built Works Project light rail design renditions on display.

Spotter Watch - Spotters on The Spot

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• Amherst NY Scanner caught Trader Joe's opening day and was in awe of the turnout which included local media and the EC Sherriff's Office.
• Buffalo Street News 716 posted video and images of a multi-vehicle accident, post crash in Seneca.
• Tim Newkirk has posted his dismay over the opening of a strip club in the very area of the Jefferson Avenue TOPs -- site of the 2022 mass shooting.

** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

• ALERS, HIPOLITO
• ASAAD, GHAZI M
• FANNAN, SARAH
• GRIECO, JUSTIN
• HILL, DASHAWN R
• MUZUREK, JESSE
• NELSON, JOSEPH W
• NSHIMIYIMANA, ERIC
• PARADISO, ANNMARIE A
• PLEASANT, ONDRAY L
• REFERMAT, RONALD
• TOOLS, EDMUND
• WILLOUGHBY, HELENA

** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

  By BuffScan for BuffScan.

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Forgive Me for Being So Encryptic

12/11/2025

Keep Police Radio Public Act - Flawed But Good

Explaining my thought process in ultimately supporting Assembly Bill A3516

In case one doesn't want to watch this video, here's the summary of why BuffScan supports Assembly Bill A3516 (AKA "Keep Police Radio Public Act") despite initial reservation.

The TLDR of it is the guess that the overhead of managing selective access to encrypted police radio, as the new (as of yet unsigned) law imagines, will be so great, that public safety agencies in New York will opt to keep their basic communications open to everyone in some uniform fashion in the first place. Either so that basic radio scanning nerds can continue to tune in alongside whatever "verified" journalists are using scanner radios, or, everyone just clicks on over to Broadcastify.

The law is a validation of my personal advocacy for 30 years now.

Yes, the fact that it was re-honed from the earlier New York Assembly Bill A9728 that was explicitly written such that everyone - not just "deemed journalists" - is suspicious to say the least (looking at you CNN and the like), it is still a shining example of a unique American principle that we would even be having the debate. That a law like this should ever get so close to a governor's pen.

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• Facebook user Tim Newkirk posted video of an apparent raid or some other formal police action involving things being carted out of a building by police. One commentator believes (and a quick Google Street View confirms) that this happened at Broadway and Sears Street. I happened on this video while reviewing Buffalo Street News 716 where it was shared to.
• Buffalo Street News 716, speaking of, also posted images and video from a school bus accident at Dorothy Street and Baitz Avenue. Details on injuries were light at the time of their posting (though generally, school bus accidents, particularly in bad weather like today, are actually fairly common and rarely result in serious injuries).
• The Southtowns Scanner posted a traffic cam cap of an accident that occurred tonight on the I-90 near mile marker 426.
• Buffalo Fire Department-Helmets & Hose Wagons posted this FD response porn from yesterday 12/10.

** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

• AVENT, ALVIN
• BARKSDALE, DELRESSA J
• BRADLEY, DENNIS
• COUGHLIN, BRETT W
• DANIELS, GREGG E
• DAVILA, SHEILA
• FRUEHAUF, VINCENT
• GIBSON, MICHAEL T
• HARDEMAN, HORATIO M
• HENN, HEATHER E
• LOFTON, DEVAUGHN
• THOMPSON, JACKEE

** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

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BuffScan Roundup for December 10, 2025

12/10/2025

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• Buffalo Fire Department-Helmets & Hose Wagons posted dramatic footage from a house fire they indicated occurred at 125 Gilbert Street Tuesday night.
• Some like it hot! 716 Street News posted a "hot response" to an assault incident on Seneca Street. Its coverage of that incident included a photo montage.
• There was a wave of social media postings by politicians who attended the grand opening of the DL&W Train Station on Monday 12/8. Included among them were Mayor Elect Sean Ryan and Assembly Member Jon Rivera.

** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.

Creepers on Cameras

This alleged package theft occurred in the area between Amherst Street and Hertel Avenue today (12/10). The Ring Neighbor user that posted it alluded to the masked subject having done this more than once.

And here's another brazen bad actor. This alleged theft occurred in the neighborhood of Genesee and Baily Avenue, also on 12/10.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

• ADSIDE, MARCUS W
• BALSANO, TROY
• CURTIS, AMBER
• GEARY, MEGAN
• GRAY, DALLAS
• GUANDIQUE, ISRAEL L
• HEFFLE, JOHNATHAN
• LISIEWSKI, BRADLEY
• NUGENT, CODY
• RODRIGUEZ, FELICITO R
• RUIZ, REINALDO
• SANTOS, CHRISTIAN
• SAPP, WILLIAM J
• TASZREAK, THOMAS M
• WINFIELD, CALEB E

** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

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Buffalo Light Rail - Expanded and Anew For All!

12/09/2025

DL&W Station Opens

Your boy is Johnny on the Spot.

Some forty-odd years later, NFTA's Metro Rail is still growing!

The latest NFTA Metro Rail Station, the DL&W, opened yesterday and here's BuffScan's ad hoc documentary proving it. At approximately 11:30 AM a train loaded with dignitaries (and yours truly) broke through a paper banner and rolled into the new DL&W Station. What followed next was an hour of celebration and speeches.

In seeking out how to be a part of all that (or rather, "fine-tune my presence") it was exceedingly difficult. Local MSM media had plenty of information circulating about the start of service into the station in general, but nothing about the timing or place of any ceremony. This bifurcated splash between dignitaries and citizens became a running point of discussion in a Reddit thread I started to assure all that I had made it. This thing is for everyone in the city to use, right?

Granted, my experience at these things may be a bit skewed. Having been an active blogger in the 90s, I was rolled into the opening day ceremonies for that city's Teco Line Streetcar network by literal mayoral invite. But beyond me, it felt like the entire city came out that day. You couldn't escape hearing about it.

Too, Moday's event was an extension of - not the big falootin' opening of the metro rail itself like in the 1980s. And too, right now, the city is said to be kind of cash-strapped so maybe not thousands and thousands of people showing up at the decorated card table for cake isn't exactly a bad thing. Fact is, that would be an impossible thing. We have to give credit that the planners who executed here know what they were doing as evidenced by the fact that they pulled it all off brilliantly.

My little video above, a bit crude in the editing I give you, is of me happening upon the dignitary train at exactly just the right time (my original plan was to walk to the new DL&W station itself and take my chances on whatever was happening there). After some careful mulling and a quick nod to one of the right people, I was allowed on board with a few other average folks who came off as excited as I was.

Missed however, was that grand "second" opening milestone which was the first arrival of a real-world fare-bearing public train. I tried for that but miscalculated hopping on the right train by apparently just minutes. Not to worry though, fellow transit nerd known online as "Bus and Rail Fan" on his YouTube Channel nailed it with the below video.

Video features the first public train into the new station. Credit Bus and Rail Fan YT Channel

Spotter Watch - Spotters on The Spot

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• Amherst NY Scanner shares a picture of a vehicle that has gone through the glass window of a Pets Supplies Plus store at 9630 Transit.
• 716 Street News posted video of a post-collision scene at Fillmore and Paderewski between a First Student school bus and a vehicle that reportedly sent several children, and the vehicle's driver, to the hospital.
• Fire Buff NY posted dramatic video of a fire at 1270 Orchard Park Road. Fire Buff reports that a cat was rescued in the process.
• Facebook user Be SumboDii posted video of a man "engaging" Buffalo Police from his balcony.
• Facebook user Ken Daniela posted a picture of his stolen vehicle recovered by Buffalo Police, but only after a crash.

** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

• ADAMS, BENNIE
• CLEMONS, TIMOTHY L
• DIXON, CHAR D
• GATES, DEANDRE
• HAMP, NICHOLAS
• VIRDI, MANDEEP
• SMITH, JAYDEN
• TRACY, RICHARD
• TROUTMAN, DANDRE
• WILLIAMS, SHIREFF

** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

  By BuffScan for BuffScan.

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