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Still Not a Bazillionaire
01/11/2025
Dorian Jones allegedly tried to make off with a Mercedes Friday night according to local news reports, using what was taken as an authentic gun at the moment. It didn't go as planned as he wound up shot by an off duty cop (reportedly not a Brazilian one, mind you) on Delaware Avenue.
The car he appears to have allegedly and initially gotten off with still had the owner's 13-year-old kid in it, if I'm interpreting the various reports correctly.
The off duty cop, also possibly the owner (ambiguity again owing to the wording of various reports) of the vehicle and child's father, let off a round from his firearm and struck Dorian, who was tracked to a nearby location with a bullet wound and subsequently taken to the hospital.
The allegedly kidnapped kid involved in all of this was okay.
This morning Dorian had court with the judge who seems to have imposed an $80,000 bail which he must not have been able to secure yet because tomorrow's BuffScan Pokey Report will show him as an inmate. Although not included earlier this morning, a refresh of the Erie County jail roster now, lists him.
So, from the scene of the crime, to the hospital, to court, to jail. All within what feels like 15 hours maybe.
At just 19, if everything given here is true, Dorian is really counting on a rich life stealing cars. New York's online court system shows that he was previously arrested for "unauthorized use of a vehicle" (cough -- clever wording preferred by legislators to avoid the phrase "stole a vehicle" for some reason) twice before Friday's escalation with gun theater.
Yes, twice.
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 1/10/2025
- CARR-JONES, TARELL
- COOK, BENATHAN
- CORTES, SALVATORE C
- DUNSTON, KABIR M
- FERGUSON, DEMETRIUS
- GOINS, LARRY S
- HARPER, HORACE
- HARRIS, DERRICK
- HOLLOWAY, AARON M
- JOHNSON, KATELYNN
- POSTOLOWSKI, BRYAN
- SOTOMAYOR, FRANCHESKA
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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Just Six 6.5 Hours
01/01/2025
Six and a half hours is about all the time it took for a shot bullet to end the first life of the year in Buffalo 2025. Both WGRZ and WIVB have reported on the unidentified victim's untimely demise.
Details are pretty scant right now but more should obviously come out later.
Crime data for Buffalo 2024 probably won't be processed and posted at the city's CitiStat website for awhile, but a sole shooting this quick into the game probably doesn't portend anything out of control. Things, on trend, have been going well for Buffalo with only 38 in 2023 which is part of a below average count since 2022 which by the way saw 70 homicides.
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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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