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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.

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