Tag: Buffalo
Antonio Rivera-Perez, Fentanyl Trafficking, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Antonio Rivera-Perez, a 25-year-old Buffalo man, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The crime occurred on January 22 and 28, 2025, when the DEA conducted controlled purchases of fentanyl from Rivera-Perez. A subsequent raid on April 22, 2025,…
Kaevon Raymere Leonard, Unauthorized Possession of U.S. Postal Service Key, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Kaevon Raymere Leonard, a 33-year-old Buffalo man, has been arrested and charged with stealing a U.S. Postal Service key, which was used to access hundreds of blue collection boxes in Buffalo and surrounding areas. The key was stolen at gunpoint from a USPS letter carrier in July 2024, and soon after,…
Rashaun Crule, Fentanyl Trafficking, New York 2023
⏱ 2 min read Rashaun Crule, a 32-year-old Buffalo man, pleaded guilty to selling a lethal dose of fentanyl that killed two people in Amherst, NY, on February 10, 2023. Crule delivered the fentanyl to an individual identified as M.M. at a location on Campus Drive, and within 20 minutes, both M.M. and another person,…
Jamarr A. Cunningham, Fentanyl Possession, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jamarr A. Cunningham, a 31-year-old Buffalo man, was busted for possessing a cocktail of deadly narcotics, including 50 grams of methamphetamine, cocaine, and 40 grams of fentanyl, in Jamestown, NY. The Jamestown Metro Drug Task Force and the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force made the bust on November 13, 2025,…
John W. Burns, Arson, New York 2024
⏱ 2 min read John W. Burns, a 42-year-old Buffalo man, pleaded guilty to arson after burning down The Old Pink, a restaurant/bar in Buffalo, NY. The incident occurred on June 17, 2024, when Burns, who had been asked to leave the establishment earlier that evening, returned and deliberately set the building on fire. The…
Giovanni Rosa, Fentanyl Distribution, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Giovanni Rosa, a 32-year-old Buffalo man, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl in the Buffalo area between January and February 2025. Rosa worked with others to sell the deadly opioid, with investigators making three controlled purchases of fentanyl from him during that time. Each purchase was approximately an ounce…
Anthony Dean, Felon in Possession of Firearm, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read Anthony Dean, a 24-year-old Buffalo man and prior felon, was caught with a loaded semi-automatic handgun at a large, unruly street party in Buffalo, NY, on July 15, 2026. The incident occurred at Eddie Dawson Park on Roetzer Street, where Buffalo Police and the FBI responded to a call around 10…
Jason Knobloch, Bank Fraud, New York 2021
⏱ 2 min read Jason Knobloch, a 56-year-old business owner from Lancaster, NY, has been arrested and charged with bank fraud for running a scheme that defrauded over 30 customers out of more than $1 million. The scam, which started in February 2021, involved the sale of forklifts and other equipment through companies controlled by…
Gennady Yumshtyk, SBIR Fraud, New York 2019
⏱ 2 min read A Canadian-owned company, Advanced Global Services, and its president, Gennady Yumshtyk, have been caught in a fraud scheme involving the US Air Force and Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in New York. In 2019, the company obtained an SBIR award to develop gun barrel coating technology, but instead of…
Lorenzo Harris, Machinegun Possession, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 20-year-old suspected gang member, Lorenzo Harris, was arrested in Buffalo, NY, for possessing a machinegun, which had a conversion device attached, allowing it to fire automatically. The arrest occurred on July 9, 2026, when law enforcement executed a search warrant at an apartment on Silo City Row. Harris, allegedly involved…
