Dominic Melendez Accused of Murder

01/26/2026

Audio of Buffalo Police Recording.

This is audio of Buffalo Police's response to what is described as a chaotic situation that turned out to be the homicide of a woman at Buffalo's Pine Harbor Apartments at 10 Seventh St in Buffalo (referred to as "10 7" by BPD dispatch) on January 24, 2026.

Police can be heard shortly after the call-out attempting to manage the incident scene and then swarming the area in a manhunt for alleged suspect Dominic Melendez. The audio does not capture the actual apprehension but reports of his arrest began to appear in area profit media outlets the following day.

Days from Sentencing on Drug Charge

BuffScan's cursory online research indicates that Melendez was just days away from appearing in court to face sentencing on what appears to be a narcotics charge just before allegedly committing the stabbing, effectively though assumed, checking himself into prison for life. It is interesting to note that the transcript of these proceedings indicate that Melendez was released without bail, failed to show up for court, then later either turned himself in or was arrested before being released on his own recognizance a second time.

Court record shows Melendez was about to be sentenced. Was out on second-time-release-without-bail at the time he allegedly stabbed woman to death.

On Monday 1/26 his online court records updated to reflect a separate murder charge.

Murder case added.

At the time of this writing there are enough online leads to name the victim in this case but until officially cited by authorities BuffScan will withhold these leads.

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Track N' Cap

01/25/2026

Erie County Sheriff's Office Air 1 Tracks Stolen Vehicle Sunday 1/18/26.

The Erie County Sheriff's Office released this video of its Air 1 copter assisting in the tracking of a stolen Ford Explorer last Sunday 1/18. The same discussed in this previous post.

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Plow Truck Does it the Wrong Way

01/23/2026

Whoops. That Really IS the "wrong way."

Spotted at the Main Street & 290 Interchange this morning. Expand video to full screen for better playback. pic.twitter.com/ufvTu5E7wU

— BuffScan (@BuffaloScan) January 22, 2026

Your BuffScan Editor-in-Chief captured this video during his regular morning commute of a plow truck taking down "Wrong Way" signage yesterday.

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Noon Conditions in Williamsville

01/19/2026

With the region under a severe winter weather advisory today here is Buffscan's look at what appears to be an early band impacting an area not too far from the airport.

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Redefining the Rubber Wheel Termination

01/19/2026

BuffScan Editorial

Police need to stop using phraseology like "We are no longer chasing" or "we are terminating the chase" when engaging in rubber wheel pursuits.

Nobody stops "chasing" anyone. Today the chase ALWAYS continues even if in the form of cameras, FLOCK, radio spotting, and helicopters or drones.

Viewing the end of rubber wheel chases as "not chasing" only validates a rationale for running in the first place. Once runners realize it's as much about the knock at the door later, if not a tackle to the ground in the moment, they'll respect the teeth of law enforcement.

Chases transform from rubber wheel into "track n' caps" and that's the phraseology citizens need to hear on their police scanners and in the media.

This BuffScan opinion, posted to BuffScan's X account, came just before a chase that demonstrates the point exactly. In this video shared by spotter Buffalo Street News 716 (Facebook) a number of what appear to be juveniles were tracked from the air for nearly 30 minutes before being snatched comfortably from a house on Sycamore St., no fuss, no muss.

Video Shared as Courtesy by Buffalo Street News 716

In this particular chase, BuffScan was tuned in to the scanner. Buffalo Police had turned over to Erie County Sheriff's Air One early on while the driver being pursued raced wildly throughout Buffalo's east and west sides. At least one accident was overheard on the radio during this pursuit but it's unclear if there were any injuries as a result of that.

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Accident on Main Street in Amherst

01/13/2026

BuffScan encountered this accident on Main Street yesterday evening. It looked like a fairly serious banger but there weren't any medic units on scene at the time.

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Curb Videos May Be Someone's Problem

01/07/2026

Videos of Minnesota Deadly Shooting

BuffScan can assume that most people will find these videos in their various feeds. However, here is a compilation for the WWW view.

They are of different angles of the ICE shooting that resulted in the death of unidentified woman. They are definitely going to frustrate a straight-line government narrative that this death had to happen.

These videos shot by charged individuals on the spot are an example of the urgency for public documenting and decentralized media.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

Spotter Watch, Spotters on the Spot

The following is a textual linkset of social media shares via the BuffScan Facebook Page and the BuffScan X feed. This list is provided to stimulate and support the decentralized spotter community.

Based on sweep at 8:57 PM EST, 1/6/26.

• Amherst NY Scanner shares a picture of a customer refusing to leave the Wendy's drive-through. What's the beef?
• Buffalo Fire & Rescue On Scene Photos presented its album of fireground activity for a fire at 331 Vermont St.
• Buffalo Street News 716 shows off an album of ground activity surrounding the cause of that power outage this morning in Buffalo. Also this video.
• Cheektowaga Scanner posted video of Buffalo Police and Fire attempting to negotiate what they describe as a man in a precarious situation atop a house roof at Comstock and Stockbridge.
• Cheektowaga Scanner posted a police traffic stop on someone who almost hit them why they were regulating traffic following a fatal accident on that street, earlier.

** 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. But, that's nothing compared to this 5 car pile up on the 190 South!

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday 1/6.

• BROWN, MAKEIGH
• CARABALLO, JEAN
• DIAZ RIVERA, JERRY
• DUNBAR, THOMAS T
• EDWARDS, KENNETH L
• GONZALEZ, JESUS
• HARDY, CHASITY V
• HOUT, WILLIAM
• HOWARD, TREVON T
• KENNEDY, JULIAN
• LEVAN, MICHAEL A
• LOVELL, ERIC
• MALMIN, STEPHANIE
• MUNDELL, GERALD R
• ORTIZ, JAHYRIE
• PARKER, ALEXANDER R
• PETTY, JEFFREY C
• SAFFORD, JERMAINE
• TROUTMAN, DANDRE

** 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 Daily Roundup for 1/6/26

01/06/2026

Spotter Watch, Spotters on the Spot

The following is a textual linkset of social media shares via the BuffScan Facebook Page and the BuffScan X feed. This list is provided to stimulate and support the decentralized spotter community.

Based on sweep at 8:57 PM EST, 1/6/26.

• Buffalo Street News 716 captured a serious accident at William and Colton Streets. Image gallery and video. Judging by this comment posted at Cheektowaga Scanner the accident may have resulted in a fatality.
• Buffalo Street News 716 shared video of a train crossing that malfunctioned, causing the train crew to resort to Plan B.
• Buffalo Street News 716 captured response to a domestic call on Lovejoy.
• Cheektowaga Scanner shared a user submitted photo of the resulting backup caused by road closure at the 190 South Ramp to Clinton/Bailey.

** 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. But, that's nothing compared to this 5 car pile up on the 190 South!

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday 1/5.

• CAO, GIANG T
• ELLIOTT, MELISSA
• KIMBLE, TERRENCE J
• LOVE, GARY L
• MOSTILLER, DANIEL
• PASQUALE, ANDRAE
• REINHARDT, LUKE
• THAGARD, AKEYIA E
• VAUGHN, ROBERT
• WARYK, JOSHUA
• WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER

** 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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Daily BuffScan Roundup for 1/5/26

01/05/2026

Spotter Watch, Spotters on the Spot

The following is a textual linkset of social media shares via the BuffScan Facebook Page and the BuffScan X feed. This list is provided to stimulate and support the decentralized spotter community.

Based on sweep at 8:01 PM EST, 1/5/26.

• Response porn by The Buffalo Blotter (Video). These are always a thrill to see!
• From Buffalo Fire Department-Helmets & Hose Wagons: BFD Dispatcher Marvin Jones is retiring. I wonder if the scanner heads among us would recognize his voice? Congrats and thank you for your service!
• Buffalo Fire & Rescue On Scene shares their photos of an MVA that occurred on Goodell
• Also from Buffalo Fire & Rescue: Unsure of what's happening here, or where, but it looks like Buffalo Fire handling a smoldering -- boat? -- fire. Here's another album from them of the same. Not enough of this? Turns out Buffalo Street News 716 made it there and captured this video and created their own image gallery, not to mention provided a live feed from the scene.
• A Buffalo Street News 716 follower sent them this video of a blown manhole cover.
• Buffalo Street news 716 also shares this Buffalo Police response porn. A gun call on Lovejoy per Buffalo Street News 716 of which they also published the detainment of 2 individuals. Here's their image gallery of the same.
• Buffalo Street News 716 published a video of an MVA on the 90 West sent to them by another driver. Be careful out there!
• And the shooting doesn't stop with just one. Buffalo Street News 716 posted this video of a shooting on Fernhill Avenue (and this image gallery).
• Crazy. Radio traffic gives a report of a man with a firearm at what I think I hear as the Hamburg Street overpass! According to Erie County Blotter, troopers showed up but there's no information on what happened after that.
• And, just when you thought things weren't batty enough, the Erie County Blotter proves you wrong.

** 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. But, that's nothing compared to this 5 car pile up on the 190 South!

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday 1/4.

• BOLTZ, JACK
• CARNEY, TYSHAWN D
• IMPERI, ZACHARY T
• KHULAQI, OBAD
• OESTERLE, GREGORY
• SCHAMBER, AMY
• SIMMONS, JERMAINE H

** 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 Pokey Report for 1/4/26

01/04/2026

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The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday 1/3.

• CALHOUN, DANIEL M
• COOK, CLARENCE T
• HOWELL, KENNETH
• HUMPHREY, WILLIAM
• KOZEE, CIERRA
• LAPIANA, EVE
• LEBUFF, CHRISTOPHER
• MACK, LAQUITA
• MALICOAT, PEGGY SUE
• MEDINA, JONATHAN
• QUESNELL, CHRISTOPHER
• WEBSTER, PARIS

** 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 Daily Roundup for 1/3/26

01/03/2026

Spotter Watch, Spotters on the Spot

The following is a textual linkset of social media shares via the BuffScan Facebook Page and the BuffScan X feed. This list is provided to stimulate and support the decentralized spotter community.

Based on sweep at 4:10 PM EST, 1/3/26.

• Buffalo Street News 716 was on hand to catch them finally cart off the so-dubbed "Ice Beamer". Here is its image gallery. So many questions linger though. The comment section of this share covers everything from reinforcing the existing stolen car status to insurance or publicity scams. Probably more to come.
• Buffalo Street News 716 catches this random incident of police handling a disorderly drunk. Wait a minute. For years your BuffScan Editor-in-Chief has been paying Uber for rides home and now I'm learning the BPD has a dry tank - with free transportation provided?! I am shocked by this information. Here's another angle.
• On a more serious tone from Buffalo Street News 716, BPD respond to the scene of someone brandishing a knife. On hand to boot? - the "Auditing Erie County" guy and his jacked-wrapped reddie.
• Fire Buff New York (FBNY) captures footage of a fire at 120 Mormon Drive in Cheektowaga. Video 1, Video 2.

** 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 1/2.

• CALHOUN, DANIEL M
• COOK, CLARENCE T
• HOWELL, KENNETH
• HUMPHREY, WILLIAM
• KOZEE, CIERRA
• LAPIANA, EVE
• LEBUFF, CHRISTOPHER
• MACK, LAQUITA
• MALICOAT, PEGGY SUE
• MEDINA, JONATHAN
• QUESNELL, CHRISTOPHER
• WEBSTER, PARIS

** 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 Daily Roundup for 1/2/26

01/02/2026

Medical Incident at Delaware Sonic

Medical rescue at Sonic on Delaware Ave. 1 of 2

Medical rescue at Sonic on Delaware Ave. 2 of 2

BuffScan spotted this active incident at the Sonic Car Wash at 2590 Delaware while headed home from errands at about 4 PM. Activity seemed to center around the gas pumps.

Reviewing scanner radio traffic much later after the fact revealed that this was related to a medical call for an unconscious patient.

Spotter Watch, Spotters on the Spot

The following is a textual linkset of social media shares via the BuffScan Facebook Page and the BuffScan X feed. This list is provided to stimulate and support the decentralized spotter community.

• Grocery mopping. Amherst NY Scanner has posted a picture of a water main break at an Amherst TOPS.
• The Buffalo Blotter was given access to look over new firefighting equipment at the Niagara Airport. Here's a vid and a gallery.
• Broken Window Theory. Seems a Buffalo fire truck's window got smashed during NYE stuff, and they came up with a good temporary solution.
• Cheektowaga Scanner posted a picture of damage to a "salt barn" - place where they store salt (the more you know ). Image was borrowed from a taxpayer group - and they're a little salty.

** 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 1/1.

• BUCHANAN, LYNN
• FROHNHEISER, JOSEPH
• HINES, BRANDON
• JUBRAN, FAREED
• KERLING, LINDSEY C
• MCCALL, CHARLES
• TINGLER, WILLIAM EDWARD
• WILLIAMS, EMMITT

** 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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Replacing Police Scanning With You

01/02/2026

Deaths Not a Far Stretch From Scene of Others Last March

Jan 1 - 2026 - Buffalo Police and Fire congregate on N. Pearl Street investigating apparent death of two individuals.

Buffalo PD and FD investigated the apparent death of two individuals at an address on N. Pearl Street in Buffalo last night.

These deaths, of which there is zero information on cause right now, occurred just a block from the connected street of St. Louis Place where Michael "Mickey" Harmon and Jordan Celotto were murdered last March. A one Bryan Chiclana is currently being held in that case.

Update 1/2 @ 1:05 AM: Channel 7 WKBW is reporting that the deaths are regarded by police as non-suspicious (Link - Warning: Website is profit-whipped and may not be readable). Food for thought on a seemingly given contradiction: Recall that the dual death of Gene Hackman and his wife were also non-suspicious but also not caused by CO. Natural causes were ultimately determined to be at root in both cases.

An Introduction From Your Editor-in-Chief

It's time to end reliance on police scanning as a means to tip off the media whether that be the mainstream media (MSM) or any iteration of the decentralized forms that are the focus of BuffScan.

Not just because agencies are increasingly moving to encryption but also, and way underrated as a point, because push-to-talk (PTT) communication is itself evaporating.

Police scanning must be replaced with something else.

BuffScan has long had its eye on what it thinks that "something else" is: Decentralized spotter-form news coverage by a wide range of entity types: Organized well resourced media outlets; eager spotters (something your Editor-in-Chief here considers himself when able to hop into that game); and on-the-spot "cognizants" who happen to have the charge and will to document what is happening in front of them.

BuffScan's editorial focus and fascination are the rise of these decentralized if not scattershot conduits of information and media which have risen as an eclipsing force over entrenched media operations. I have my critiques of, and suggestions for, the latter, but even without the advice and idea of a rando who literally (kind of) flunked out of journalism school, they too are adapting to the decentralized form. The fascination is not so much the who but the how. Though I think we, the spotters, coming up from the other end are doing it better and more interestingly.

Today we have a conflagration of technology that started back when just anyone could upload an HTML document to the web. It has evolved since then to include smartphones and social media. Combined, really, everything anyone needs now to be the reporter, to be the newsbreaker, and, undoubtably, be someone's problem, in the process.

It's this revolution that is the first major component of what are likely several that is "the replacement for police scanning." A cooperative hive of those interacting to cast into digital circulation what they have seen, encountered, and experienced. As much without a profit or agenda motive, or, refreshingly perhaps, with one that is at least well-labeled.

This movement is not owned by the well-resourced, the powerful, or to any one personality type, association, or institutionally supported. It is a byproduct of the will itself -- which means it flows from you.

A New BuffScan

BuffScan in 2026 begins this chronicling of you. You with your images and videos, you with your story, you with your open agenda and wonderful flaws and mistakes.

It's an odd place in the turbulence to seat BuffScan - but it's from where it may participate comfortably, sometimes as commentator sometimes as direct participant. After all, BuffScan has a vision and the will to demonstrate and explore through active exposition how exactly little radio boxes can be removed from the equation to rebuild the concept of newsgathering from the ground up.

So, encryption, be there or not. What we'll replace old fashioned police scanning with will be thrice potent and thrice on the backs of the corrupt and dark. If you have that bleak perspective I mean. I rather look more upon the manifestation of this movement as a chaotic good where, in that vein, we advance.

Spotter Watch, Spotters on the Spot

The following is a textual linkset of social media shares via the BuffScan Facebook Page and the BuffScan X feed. This list is provided to stimulate and support the decentralized spotter community.

• 716 Street News's coverage of that apparently deadly incident on North Pearl Street tonight along with an image set. A tragic start to the 2026 for the city. This address appears to be just down the, essentially connected, street from St. Louis Street where Buffalo icons Michael "Mickey" Harmon and his partner Jordan Celotto were murdered just last March. That being said, at the time of this sharing, no cause of death has been given. As Street 716 notes, this has more of a horrible CO accident vibe.
• BuffScan didn't get out there for the yearly switchover, but Buffalo Street News got it!
• This is why BuffScan advocates big time for them dash-cams! Hopefully one or the other had one. Buffalo Street News 716 got a first-hand witness account to an MVA New Year's Eve.
• Buffalo enjoyed a snowy New Year and Buffalo 716 Street News gave video kudos.
• Cheektowaga Scanner delights with a 2025 compilation of spotter and other footage it presented throughout.
• The Southtown Scanners amplified the plight of what appeared to be two lost horses. Their latest update though: They have been rescued.
• BuffScan heard parts of this on the scanner while working through a pizza-induced coma. Looks like Tonawanda Fire Alert clinched the scene of a house fire at 538 Two Mile Creek Rd with video. They also have an image gallery from the same.
• Looks like WNY Code 3 Photography & Video caught some ground footage of a fire response in Cheektowaga.

** 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 12/31/25.

• BLAZE, WALTER
• CLARK, LAMAR
• GALLO, MICHELLE
• IDIRIS, NASIR
• IVES, NICKOLAS
• OSHALA, MUSA
• PAIGE, JAMES
• PARKER, SCOTT
• SCHLOPY, SHAWN

** 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 Daily Roundup for 12/23/25

12/23/2025

Spotter Watch - Spotters on The Spot

Please note that links to spotter content may require additional login to respective social media platforms like Facebook or X.

• Amherst NY Scanner posted an audio clip of a dispatch to investigate human bones found inside clothing turned over to the Salvation Army.
• The Buffalo Blotter posted an album of fireground activity for a fire at 82 Wilkes Ave.
• Rob Shots has posted images from what appears to be a (plow?) truck that has gone over the edge and into the hoods.
• 716 Street News has posted an image of Gary Green being loaded up, likely on his way to a remaining lifetime of cages. Green is a suspected murderer who police say that he killed his girlfriend and then tried to carjack a vehicle while escaping. Details of the charges can be reviewed on this Erie County DA Office Release on the matter.
• I am not sure how we missed this in yesterday's Spotter sweep, but The Southtowns Scanner posted user submitted video of a weather phenomenon known as a "snowroller".

** 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.

• BLACHOWICZ, PATRICK
• BUZAK, BRANDON C
• BYAMUNGU, LWABOSHI
• GRANT, MICHAEL
• HUTCHERSON, MARCELLUS
• KADARIYA, NETESH
• LAH, NELER G
• LINNAN, CHRISTEN A
• MALIKO, ABDULWAHAB
• MELENDEZ, LUIS A
• MOORE, JAMES
• MOSLEY, CHARNELL
• OCONNOR, ERIN G
• PERRY, CURTIS E
• SHELTON, EMMANUEL J

** 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 Daily Roundup for 12/22/25

12/22/2025

Spotter Watch - Spotters on The Spot

Please note that links to spotter content may require additional login to respective social media platforms like Facebook or X.

• Amherst NY Scanner braves a picture of Jennifer Ortiz, the woman accused of killing a wheelchair-bound woman over the weekend.
• Buffalo Fire & Rescue On Scene Photos posted an album of fireground images from a fire at 279 Hazelwood Ave. earlier today.
• 716 Street News posted captured video of a car on fire at Hertel and Niagara earlier today.
• 716 Street News posted an images and video of an accident that occurred at William and Monroe.
• Cheektowaga Scanner posted a user submitted image of an accident in front of the Walden Galleria yesterday.

** 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.

• ANDREWS, NICOLE J
• CANNON, MEGAN E
• FOSTER, HAMADI
• HENLEY, CORDDARYL
• KLEIBER, TYLER
• LOVE, GARY L
• MASSIMI, JOSHUA
• MCLAMORE, JERRY
• ORTIZ, MANUEL
• SCHAFF, REBECCA L

** 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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Keep Police Radio Public Act Veto Rationale

12/22/2025

Presented above is Kathy Hochul's rationale for vetoing the Keep Police Radio Public Act last Friday.

My Take

I'll be drip-dropping more pontification on this veto's reasoning as time goes on. There's a lot more to unpack but for now here are my first-take notes:

1. Concerns for privacy that she cites have not been an issue for decades upon decades. Remember, open broadcasting is the default, not a "move to" as the reasoning suggests. Yes of course open communications are exploitable but in those decades upon decades, mitigations to eliminate them in important matters have been successful.

2. At least the reasoning acknowledges the futility of distinguishing between the NY Times and BuffScan or your favorite scanner news coverage Facebook Group. In my opinion the attempt by selfish media sector groups to celebrate their sanctimonies exceptionalism instead of making this fight for the public, created a fatal flaw. Thanks for that MSM.

3. And finally, having this distraction in play removed, it re-asserts the actual mission. The unambiguous goal now is to firmly replace police scanning with something else.

So let's get busy.

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Fatal Hit and Run on Kesington Avenue

12/21/2025

Alleged Perpetrator is Flocked

YouTube Video Embed Courtesy of Tonawanda Fire Alert.

Tonawanda Fire Alert covered a scene on Kesington Avenue last night involving a fatal hit and run that left what is reported to be a 70 year old wheelchair-bound woman, dead.

According to TFA's information and that of other reports the suspect was nailed by area law enforcement's FLOCK system - a (relatively) inexpensive and thus highly saturating intelligent network of plate and vehicle type and description readers.

We can only speculate on the condition, cognizance, and the motivation of the suspect to allegedly flee the scene of what might be manslaughter, but FLOCK made sure everyone at least knew who to begin the investigation with.

Note that the Tonawanda Fire Alert's video also includes, later in the video, police loading up the suspect vehicle from a Cheektowaga residence.

Epstein File Release Appears to Expose Buffalonian Lament

A Meta Threader identifying itself as Heather Ashley gave online focus to the existence of a Buffalo-sender's letter that it says was culled from the Epstein U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) file dump. The hand-written letter appears to offer support for Jeffery Epstein, lamenting that "these the girls knew what they were doing."

Independent researches and investigators may more directly refer to the U.S. Department of Justice's Epstein Library.

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• Buffalo Fire & Rescue On Scene Photos posted an album of photos covering an incident at 1001 East Delevan Ave.
• 716 Street News posted ground footage of response to a house with an apparent "power trip" on Lovejoy. They also posted video of the power trip itself.
• 716 Street News posted video their footage from the scene of a fatal hit and run on Kesington Avenue last night. They also post this additional media.
• As featured above, Tonawanda Fire Alert shot video of the incident on Kesington Avenue last night.

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

• BUSH, LEONARD
• BUSTER, MORRELL T
• CLARK, DEMETRIUS
• CROWDEN, TEARRINE L
• HATTEN, ROBERT
• HIGGINS, CHRISTOPHER
• HOGAN, HUGH
• KING, KYLE
• LOVELL, ERIC
• LYNCH, SHAWN
• MARTINEZ, JENISE
• PEREZ, LISANDRA
• REDRICK, ROBERT
• REINHARDT, LUKE
• ROBINSON, DASHAWN J
• SCHWARZ, SEAN M
• STOKES, GEORGE E
• STURGIS, MARIO S
• UDDIN, IBRAHIM M
• WORKMAN, BARRY M

** 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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Governor Kathy Hochul Vetoes Openness Measure

12/20/2025

The Keep Police Radio Public Act has been VETOED by Governor Hochul.

While I sympathize that the Act (AB3516) was selfishly designed to benefit established profit media first, in BuffScan's opinion, it was still a measure of openness and transparency that would have in practice led to keeping open systems for all. BuffScan came to support the bill despite its flaw.

Therefore this is terrible news.

As we do not yet know the reasoning behind the veto, BuffScan defers criticizing the Governor at this time.

And too, this veto is a reminder that it is crucial to replace police scanning with something else. BuffScan will continue to report on and to advocate for just such a revolution.

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Doing a Job Americans Don't Want To Do

12/19/2025

Spotted at the Main Street TOPS in Amherst

This floor cleaning robot is the first working robot ever encountered by your Editor-in-Chief.

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• 716 Street News posted a series of media related to a violent incident wherein 3 men attach another. Here is the actual attack as 716 received it. Then there are the follow up posts. (Set 1)(Set 2)(Set 3).
• 716 Street News posted Buffalo Police response to a woman threatening people on Hudson.
• FBNY posted ground footage from a fire at 961 Clinton Street. (Video)(Set 1)(Set 2).
• The Southtowns Scanner posted media they received from a follower of a fire department response to a structure fire in the area of Barrows and English.

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

• BAILEY, MELVIN
• BOOZE, NAKYE
• BRAUNSCHWEIGER, MATTHEW
• BUSCAGLIA, JAMES
• CRAIG, CARINA
• CURRIE, DONNIE
• FROELICH, CHARLES
• HENHAWK, ALEXANDER A
• KLIMEK, JONATHAN
• NEWMAN, JACOB A
• PETERS, CHANCE
• SCHOLL, JEREMIAH
• SKUTNIK, SKYE
• SOLOMON, SEAN
• VAZQUEZ, LUIS
• WHITESIDE, MARIE

** 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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The Who's a Journalist Question Looms Large

12/18/2025

Keep Police Radio Public Act is the Opening Act for Who's a Journalist Debate

Assemblyman Michael Riley offers up a challenge to the Keep Police Radio Public Act. The debate reveals insight into the question of who will be considered a journalist once law. See his X statement.

Assembly Bill A3516 is still pending signature as of this writing. I thought it might be interesting while we wait if I hub some of the chit chat about this bill as it exists around the official status updates and explainers surrounding it.

• Gov. Kathy Hochul Should 'Defend Democracy' by Signing the 'Keep Police Radio Public Act' into Law
• Keep Police Radio Transmission Public (NAACP's position)

Missed in all the discussion regarding A3516 is the video dissection/challenge above to the bill by New York Assemblyman Mike Reilly. You can find his X statement here. The debate however tears into the question of who will be considered a journalist by the State of New York, once this bill is signed.

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• 716 Street News posted submissions of fire response activity at the McKinley Mall today (Set 1) (Set 2). Judging by comments it was more or less a false alarm, though, "alarming" nonetheless.
• 716 Street News posted video from the scene of an accident at Sycamore and Strauss. Though checked out by medics, 716 indicates nobody was injured. Here's their image montage.
• 716 Street News posted media of another accident at Broadway and Rother, this time where one person was transported to the hospital. (Set 1)(Set 2)(Set 3).
• 716 Street News posted a follower media submission of an accident on the 33 overpass involving a school bus. Their post indicates no children on board.

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

• BREWER, MONTRELL
• CRABTREE, JESSICA R
• DIPIRRO, JUSTIN
• ERLE, NICOLE
• FILDES, JAMARI M
• FOLEY, SCOT
• GREEN, ANTHONY
• HENDERSON, NOLAN P
• JACKSON, PARIS
• JENKINS, JAYLAND
• LOTT, ERNEST
• LUCE, AMBER
• MARRERO, KEVIN
• MCKNIGHT, MELODY
• MERCURI, RYAN
• ORTIZ-MALDONADO, ANGEL
• ROSS, JOHNNIE
• SCHWEIZGER, KEITH A
• SMITH, JARELLE
• WALKER-FINCH, MONET
• WILLIAMS, SHERON
• WOLF, CHRISTOPHER B
• WRIGHT, MARKUS

** 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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I Found the NYBSA Release

12/17/2025

We Don't Poop in the Water - Exempt Us

Those who keep tabs on BuffScan may recall that prior to my acceptance of the Keep Police Radio Public Act (Assembly Bill A3516), I decried the structure of public safety radio preservation in the act as being the product of a suspiciously selfish agenda by legacy media.

Doing some basic Googling, it seems I wasn't too far off the mark. The New York State Broadcasters Association implies by way of this release that it figured into the bill's evolution (note in the release this phraseology "Our next step is the Governor.").

Selfish because, if you're going to fight to keep public safety communication in the clear for just one group, why not do the obvious thing and make this about keeping everything public in the first place.

Or put another way, just like Senate Bill S416 had it before it was substituted by the currently-poised-to-become-law, A3516.

Keeping a push to keep radio traffic public is not only the obvious fight to have, it's, as I say, the likely practicing outcome, once it becomes clear there is no bullet-proof way to segment this type of action between people and so-called "professional" journalists. Unlike the issue of body armor the same group cites as an example of exempting media houses from something otherwise restricted. Body armor is material goods and can be held, pushed, and pulled back from someone.

Radio carrier, not so much.

The group seemed to put the energy of its cause behind the notion that there hasn't been any significant issue with journalists showing up at crime scenes.

...No New York law enforcement agency has provided any evidence that journalists have been a problem or pose a future problem to police officers...

From the NYSBA release.

...by that logic, I would challenge the group that anyone with a police scanner has ever, beyond nuisance, been more or less a "problem", either, whatever that inference is supposed to mean anyway.

Or, we can tackle this from the other side. Since when haven't journalists showing up at crime scenes not been considered a problem? Have we never heard of anything called the paparazzi? Is there not an entire body of ethical contemplation in journalism and media education precisely because they're always a potential problem?

People reporting truth or telling a story not meant to be told are always someone's problem. Just because a media house slaps a 60 second Subaru commercial over their brand of that problem doesn't "honorably distinguish". Rather it's quite perverse actually.

The reason for the difference between S416 and A3516 are forces striving to narrow access to a powerful now-premium encrypted rich information stream to themselves.

In bringing these words to you, I'm not walking back my newfound support for the imminent law. I'm simply pointing out that my crackpot theory over special interests tailoring a movement to their profit motivated brand of news collection ("professional journalists") is not exactly assuaged when lo and behold I do find such a group with its fingers so close to the scale.

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• Buffalo Fire Department-Helmets & Hose Wagons went live on Facebook with the ceremonious inauguration of Buffalo's new Battalion Chief along with two new Lieutenants (details available on said feed).

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

• AMAYA-MARQUEZ, ESMELIN
• ANDINO, FRANCISCO
• BAXTER, JAMEL J
• CALABRESE, ANTHONY
• COOK, CLARENCE T
• ELDRIDGE, IEESHA
• FABRIZIO, DANIELLE B
• HARGE, DARRELL W
• HUBER, SCOTT
• HUFFMAN, DEJAUN
• JANCZYLIK, JUSTIN
• MCDANIEL, JAMEER
• OFFHAUS, SHAWN
• PLETL, KATIE
• PRIMERANO, ANTHONY S
• RIOS, ANTHONY L
• RODRIGUEZ, EMMANUEL D
• SEXTON, CHRISTOPHER
• WRIGHT, JAMES H

** 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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Niky Sal Speaks Out After Stabbing

12/16/2025

Definitely Felt it in the Morning

Pred catcher Niky Sal posted a Facebook update following a knife attack on him in a Jamestown Tim Hortons. He and his team of predator-confrontationalists were engaging in one such confrontation when it suddenly devolved into a brawl, then stabbing attack.

In the update Sal vindicates his security team who many have criticized for allowing the brawl that preceded the knife attack in the first place. He also describes the injuries to his arm which he indicates are serious.

Online Predator Catcher Nily Sal addresses the December 13 attack on him.

Confrontation between Niky Sal and alleged online predator devolves into brawl and stabbing attack.

James Morris, reported to be a Jamestown resident, was arrested in connection to the attack but it is unclear from muddling through the details whether or not he was the alleged predator attempting to meet a minor, or simply a cohort. In the video posted by Nily he expresses his feeling that Morris was an accomplice.

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• We seem to have a day devoid of any significant spotter activity. The icy weather must be keeping everyone rational today.

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

• AHMED, SAFIN
• ARONICA, ANTHONY
• BARTOLONE, SAMUEL
• COHEN, JEFF
• FEROLETO, KATHLEEN M
• GILBERT, DAMON
• HERRING, KIM D
• JENNEY, JAMES
• LAMPHEAR, MELISSA R
• MCDUFFIE, THADDEUS

** 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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