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BPD Taking Down Car Thieves
04/08/2024
Tonight I picked up from the scanner that Air 1 was tracking a stolen jeep in my neighborhood and were helping BPD to hone in on it.
A few minutes later I heard "two in custody", and I was off to film.
The video above is just of my approach to the scene, but you can watch my entire ground coverage via my X feed of it (and, it's becoming increasingly clear - BuffScan can't leave X)
Radio traffic suggests two were arrested, but, also, that two police officers were injured. The ground footage shows two patients being loaded into the back of ambulances and taken from the scene. I will update this post with MSM profit media links when/if they are made available.
Linkage
- BPD Press Release Detailing Event, Arrests
- Three Buffalo police officers hurt, suspect tasered in stolen vehicle incident
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Erie County Sheriffs Air One and Buffalo Police Enjoy Takedown
03/29/2024
Buffalo Police and the Erie County Sherriff's Air One Unit clinch the apprehension of car thieves on the evening of March 3/27/24.
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Car Creepers No Match for Roman Army
02/11/2024
Man - the things that can happen while just sitting in traffic.
On February 8 of this past week I had just pulled up in line to the light-stopped traffic headed into the Humboldt Parkway intersection. This is the probably the busiest intersection on Main Street on any given weekday at that time, which was about 8 AM.
Suddenly, there is the sound of a siren behind me, and just like that, a speeding Ram pickup truck followed by two Buffalo Police cars, race on by.
The truck recklessly enters into the intersection miraculously without causing an accident, as do the BPD units, determined to catch their suspect.
At the time, BPD had good reason to believe that the runner was possibly the shooter in a shooting incident at the Marine Drive Apartment complex, located downtown, literally off the city marina.
As it would later turn out, the shooter was actually a retired Buffalo Police officer named Antonio Roman (either being, if not simply unfortunately sharing, the same name as another controversial Buffalo Police officer in the mid-2000s), who apparently managed to squeeze off a round or two, or three, at purported car creeper thieves at or near the apartment complex.
Update 2/24/24: Antonio Roman has been arraigned on first degree assault charges.
The person threatening everyone's lives that morning by running from police was reportedly an alleged accomplice of the shot thief.
The pickup truck wound through Buffalo, winding up abandoned in a neighborhood near the Buffalo/Amherst line. Further radio traffic of the incident tells that the sole suspect from that vehicle was then cornered and apprehended successfully with the help of Amherst Police Department's K9 unit.
So all in all, a great outcome.
The story elements probably demand a lot more attention than were given in my opinion. But the important thing is a thief may have learned a lesson, and the Buffalo and Amherst Police departments, got the other one.
Linkage
- WIVB TV News Coverage of Incident
- WGRZ TV News Coverage of Incident
- WKBW TV News Coverage of Incident
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Bail Laws Amount to Another Bailing
07/12/2023
Finally, someone is actually sitting in jail for stealing a KIA.
A one Jashawn Fields is currently listed as being in jail since July 10 after Buffalo Police borrowed the Erie County Sheriff helicopter and decided to chase down some "KIA Boyz" from the air.
Fields was apprehended last Sunday when the chopper followed a stolen vehicle, a vehicle which contained him and at least one if not several others, to Esser Avenue in Buffalo.
I am assuming Fields knew he was being followed from the air and in his pip-squeak little brain, thought he could outrun helicopters. But if not I'd be curious how he mentally processed it all when they slapped the cuffs on him - he must have been bewildered and blamed "magic" or something.
I know personally from listening to the scanner at the time that he and his cohorts bailed and at least one of them entered a neighborhood house (two actually). Despite social media remarks I've encountered suggesting otherwise, he does not appear to be being charged for that entry, insofar as I can tell by online court records.
Incredibly, Fields appears to be the same person allegedly involved in a similar theft in the Town of Tonawanda a few weeks earlier which involved the stolen car he was allegedly driving crashing into a tree. As per New York's current bail laws, he was let go with a promise to report back to court on July 17.
So, let that sink in.
Curious justice-seekers can follow these cases as CR-04194-23 and CR-03732-23 via the New York Unified State Unified Court System Webcriminal portal.
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Takedown Porn - You've Heard of Dumpster Diving
07/02/2023
Okay, we don't know what the kid in this video was was being chased for. It might have been some juvenile level nonsense like spray painting a vulgarity on the side of a building, or maybe he's a "KIA boy" the police actually had a running bead on. Or, maybe he was trying to get a USB stick containing solid evidence that Hunter Biden sold America out to the Chinese with his dad, to the right people, and the "cops" are paid hitmen to track'em down and neautralize the geopolitical threat.
In any case, it's great "takedown porn", which you should know I'm totally into. It's not local to Buffalo -- I don't think -- but, it's one of those posts I like to share whenever I happen across them in my web searches.
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Pizza Delivery Man's Huge Trip
04/18/2023
Not local but you get my local voice. :)
This takedown occurred in Delaware County Pennsylvania and it didn't involve the police at least insofar as the takedown itself. Rather, it involved pizza delivery driver Tyler Morrell who happened to be at the right place at the right time, and had the right gumption.
He delivers for Cocco's Pizza in Aston (here's the for some-reason unsecure website but it's probably fine - here is their Facebook page if you prefer big tech corporate privacy invasion over a potential hacker invasion).
I've had to look around for the best online depiction of this thing and Doorbell News seemed to have the best -- none of that mayonaise media intro BS. That and it shows off the whole thing which is important for the fresh delivery finish.
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Buffalo Police Avoid a Hole In One
04/16/2023
This video posted to the Ring Neighbors app last week shows the urgent, safe, and effective takedown of an individual who, to likely anyone's eye, was experiencing a mental health issue or out of control public drunkness.
The video shows a man intermittently and wildly swinging a golf club at "air adversaries" around him as he wobbles erratically down the street. He also carried a bottle which he periodically places on the ground and picks back up over and over again.
The takedown was clean without any of that "passive-escalation" crap where officers scream something like "drop the weapon fucker or I'll blow you away!" approach that, well, tends to naturally provoke a reaction to deadly ends. We see that a lot in videos, including (mostly) technically "justified shooting" ones.
This is not the only video circulating of BPD officers doing professional clean takedown work but confrontations are fluid and differ from situation to situation. Emotional strength and discipline are always a matter of "holding your breath" to see if that's what actually prevails.
That's why this incident is particularly special. If you actually watch the video, the suspect even crudely arms himself by shattering his bottle just as he is being cornered by police in the covered vestibule of a venue that had patrons huddling nervously off as the incident unfolded just a few shoulder-lengths away
Circulating on the RIng Neighbors App on 4/7. Video is additionally edited for BuffScan posting.
The Ring Neighborhood post commentary suggests that this occurred on Hertel avenue. The poster was rightly commended for his video quality which he attributed to the WHD103Z dome camera system, which is a bit more than the average homeowner would probably install. I assume the OP was somehow connected to the business hosting the camera.
Whether confrontational outcomes are good or bad, I generally avoid weighing in on the merit of police action (or maybe better put, I like to think that I do). To me, whether they are singing praise or condeming actions, people do this as a way to mitigate the power that law enforcement has over them which to me is a weaker stance if there has to be that psychological orientation in the first place. To me, like journalists, cops are just people forced to work in potentially explosive unpredictable circumstances all the time. As such results will vary, but nobody is the devil for it.
That being said, they didn't shoot this guy and my guess is the moment the man shattered that bottle and armed himself, they could-might-have.
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