State police arrest four, confiscate crack, weapons
SALAMANCA -- A 74-year-old man was killed shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday and eight other persons were injured in a two-car crash on Interstate 86 in Salamanca.
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State police arrested four people Tuesday and confiscated about a pound of crack cocaine and two weapons.
The action was reported by troopers assigned to Operation IMPACT, a state-funded program supporting strategic crime-fighting and violence-reduction initiatives in Buffalo.
Perhaps the day’s biggest success was on Gatchell Street, near Broadway, although no arrests were made there. Troopers and officers from the Buffalo Police Department’s Mobile Response Unit, responding to a report of a gun in a home, found the crack and two weapons—a .45-caliber handgun and a shotgun—at an abandoned property at 22 Gatchell.
Traffic stops led to the arrests of four Buffalo residents on drug-related charges:
Dion A. Howard Jr., 20, who was pulled over on Hamilton Street, reportedly was in possession of five hydrocodone pills and a partially smoked marijuana cigarette.
James J. Chatman III, 30, who was stopped on Potomac Avenue, was found with two bags of crack cocaine, according to troopers.
Desmond L. Finley, 23, stopped on Plymouth Avenue, was wanted on an arrest warrant issued by Amherst Town Court, and troopers reported finding a bag of marijuana in the vehicle.
Latonia D. Pugh, 25, who was stopped at Broadway and Memorial, was found with three baggies of marijuana, according to troopers. She also was wanted on a petit larceny warrant in Cheektowaga.
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