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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – MAYVILLE – Robert Kaczor Jr., 29, of Fredonia was charged Tuesday with two counts of second-degree criminal contempt. While in the Chautauqua County Jail, he allegedly contacted two individuals who possessed full stay away orders of protection against him. He will answer to the charges in Chautauqua Town Court at a later date. – PORTLAND – Joshua Dash, 44, of Portland was charged Wednesday with second-degree criminal contempt, endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree harassment. It is alleged that Dash harassed another ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT --- Anne E. Robbins, 40, of Jamestown was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument on Thursday. Before 11 p.m., officers conducted a traffic stop on Columbia Avenue near Forest Avenue for numerous observed traffic and equipment violations. During the course of the traffic stop it was determined that the license plate on the vehicle was forged. Robbins was taken into custody and was currently on probation for the same charge stemming from an incident earlier this year where she was in possession of another forged license plate. ...

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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – NORTH HARMONY – Telly Ortiz Jr., 27, of Jamestown, was charged Friday with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and insufficient tail lights. Deputies pulled over Ortiz around midnight on Route 394 in North Harmony for a traffic infraction and said they observed a weapon inside the vehicle. He was processed on scene and released with an appearance ticket scheduled to appear in the Town of North Harmony Court at a later date. JAMESTOWN POLICE - Tiffany M. Freedline, 35, of Jamestown was charged with three counts of failure to ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE - An 18-year-old Jamestown youth was charged with gang assault early Wednesday morning. Around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, Jamestown police officers were alerted to an in-progress assault behind the former Oriental Star restaurant in Brooklyn Square, on the Riverwalk. According to a police report, officers arrived and saw three people running west across South Main street. Officers caught two youths and 18-year-old Julio Arizmendi. Police allege Arizmendi, the two youths and an unidentified Black male attacked a person with a stick, knife, imitation pistol and a glass bottle ...

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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT — SHERIDAN --- A vehicle pursuit last week has led to drug charges against at town resident. Chautauqua County sheriff’s deputies report its Criminal Investigation Division attempted to stop Philip A. Decker, 25, who was a known suspended operator. He failed to comply and led an investigator on a pursuit from the town of Sheridan into the town of Hanover on Thursday. Decker abandoned his vehicle on Routes 5 and 20 near Hanford Road and fled on foot. He was later located at a residence in Hanford Bay and taken into custody. Through an ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE - Daniel R. McKay, 30, of Jamestown, was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after a traffic stop at 9:47 p.m. Tuesday. According to a police report, officers pulled over a vehicle at North Main and West Sixth streets for a traffic infraction and ...