Wednesday News Brief

32-year-old Breanna Brummond of Lyons has been arrested on two bench warrants from Batavia City Court. The warrants stem from two separate incidents early in February when she failed to appear to face charges of petit larceny and criminal trespass as required on the issued appearance tickets. In April, she was arrested again; issued appearance tickets, and once again failed to appear. Late last month, Brummond was arrested and remanded to the custody of the Genesee County Jail; she’s due back in court at a later date. ALSO: 36-year-old Shameek Taylor of Bergen is charged with criminal obstruction of breathing. It’s alleged he placed his hand around the neck of another person and applied pressure, causing their breathing to be obstructed. Taylor was arraigned in Batavia City Court and released on his own recognizance. He’s scheduled to return to court at a later date. ALSO: 32-year-old Dustin Forkell of Ogden has been arrested on two bench warrants. They stem from incidents where he was charged with criminal possession of stolen property, after allegedly being found in possession of a stolen vehicle. Forkell was additionally charged with false personation and petit larceny, after allegedly stealing merchandise from a local business and then lying to police about his identify. He was arraigned in CAP Court and is due back in City Court at a later date.

 

PROVIDED BY NYS POLICE: On Sunday, July 3 at 6:28 P.M., Troopers out of Batavia responded to Maple Road in the town of Alabama for a ATV/Side-by-side collision. Investigation determined that 60-year-old Michael Borkholder of Oakfield was operating a 2008 Can-Am Outlander Max XT south bound on Maple Road and failed stop and struck the rear end of a 2021 CF Moto ZForce 950 slowing to make a turn into a driveway. Borkholder was ejected and was transported by Mercy Flight to Erie County Medical Center with severe injuries. Borkholder succumbed to his injuries later that night at ECMC.

 

 

The Erie County Sheriff’s Office says it seized $50,000 worth of illegal fireworks from a home in Buffalo early Monday morning. Narcotics and Intelligence officers, along with Buffalo Police, the FBI and the ATF, executed search warrants at two houses on South Ryan Street. In the basement of one of the houses, the team found a large cache of commercial-grade fireworks. The sheriff’s office says they arrested 36-year-old Michael Sylvia after a weeklong investigation, charging him with unlawful possession, storage and sale of fireworks, as well as criminal weapon possession.

 

Two suspects are in custody and police are looking for additional suspects following an early morning burglary at a store in Greece. Surveillance video shared by the Greece Police Department appears to show four people climbing over registers just after 4:30 a.m. and attempting to smash items before going into another room. Police said they responded to a business in the 1500 block of West Ridge Road and found a vehicle fleeing, with suspects running from it. Officers caught two suspects, ages 16 and 17, both from Syracuse, after a foot chase. They’re charged with burglary, criminal mischief, criminal possession of burglar tools, petit larceny. Police said the vehicle was reported stolen out of Syracuse. The teens are also charged with criminal possession of stolen property.

 

According to the Wall Street Journal, Christmas Tree Shops is expected to liquidate all 72 of its remaining stores nationwide unless a buyer can be found within the next week. The news comes after the retailer defaulted on a $45 million loan. The Massachusetts-based chain, which operates a location on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Amherst and in Henrietta on Jefferson and 12 other stores across New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May. There is no word on when the stores could go dark if a new owner does not emerge.

 

An audit by the Erie County Comptroller’s Office found there is a potential fraud occurring in the Erie County Clerk’s Office, with thousands of dollars unaccounted for and evidence of data manipulation. The Comptroller, Kevin Hardwick, says the audit found cash discrepancies in 28 of the 40 days for records they reviewed from the clerk’s office. They now believe at least $90,000 is unaccounted for, with the potential for a lot more. Hardwick says his office faced unusual delays in its audit while dealing with the clerk’s office, and many of the documents requested were never provided. Multiple agencies are investigating the fraud, including the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, Erie County District Attorney and New York State Comptroller.

 

The Sabres now have nine defensemen with NHL contracts — three more than can dress on a given night, which means they may need to shed one or two in the near future. That group is made up of Johnson, Clifton, Rasmus Dahlin, Owen Power, Mattias Samuelsson, Henri Jokiharju, Ilya Lyubushkin, Riley Stillman, and Jacob Bryson. But according to General manager Kevyn Adams, the surplus is a situation he’s happy to be in right now noting that the season is long and the team needs good, solid players. He believes competition is never a bad thing and that the team could have nine defensemen at the start of September. Adams also acknowledged with the right opportunity he could consider a possible trade.

 

13 WHAM Weather Authority Forecast from Meteorologist Mark McLean

Today: We’ll see mainly sunny skies and this afternoon will be hot and humid with a chance for a isolated shower/thunderstorm later in the day. Highs will be in the upper 80’s to near 90 with light winds.

Tonight: Partly cloudy skies. Lows in the upper 60’s to near 70. Wind: Light and variable

Tomorrow: The heat continues with mostly sunny skies in the morning then becoming partly sunny in the afternoon. There’s a slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs will reach 90 to the lower 90’s; it will feel like mid 90s away from Lake Ontario. Winds will be light.

Tomorrow Night: Showers and thunderstorms develop later in the afternoon and last through the night. The low will be around 70 with light winds.

https://13wham.com/weather/radar

ELSEWHERE…

Meta is set to launch its Twitter competitor called Threads tomorrow. The release of Threads comes just days after Twitter owner Elon Musk announced new limits on how many posts users can see on Twitter. Social-media veterans believe the planned app will be a formidable competitor for Twitter, which has faced falling revenue and other challenges since Musk took over the company in October.

 

 

Joey Chestnut is once again the champion of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. He won his 16th championship after the event was delayed for more than two hours due to severe weather. Chestnut chowed down 62 hot dogs in ten minutes. That’s 14 hot dogs short of his record of 76 that he set in 2021. On the women’s side, Miki Sudo defended her title by eating 39-1/2 hot dogs.

 

There have been more shark attack reports on Long Island. Yesterday, a man was apparently bitten in the leg as he was swimming in Quogue and another man was bitten on his hand at Fire Island Pines. This comes after a shark bit a 15-year-old boy, who was surfing, Monday at Kismet Beach. Meanwhile, a drone spotted about 50 sharks off Robert Moses Beach yesterday, delaying the opening of swimming for the beach yesterday.

 

 

Nearly a billion dollars will be up for grabs in two nationwide lotteries this week. There was no grand prizewinner in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, so the jackpot rolls over to Friday’s drawing, when it will be worth an estimated $427,000,000 (million). Meanwhile, the jackpot in tonight’s Powerball drawing is worth an estimated $546,000,000. Please play responsibly.

 

 

Today is Wednesday, July 5th, the 186th day of the year.

July 5 in history…

 

…In 1937, Chester Greenwood, the inventor of earmuffs died at the age of 78. He invented the earmuffs at age 15.

 

 

 

 

…In 1946, the bikini bathing suit made it public debut during a fashion show in Paris. It was created by Louis Reard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

…In 1954, Elvis Presley recorded “That’s All Right” and “Blue Moon of Kentucky” for Sam Phillips and Sun Records.

 

 

 

 

 

 

…In 1989, “The Seinfeld Chronicles” was televised as a pilot on NBC.

 

 

 

 

 

…In 1994, Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Washington. The site was originally an online marketplace for books but has since expanded to include a multitude of product categories and is now a multibillion-dollar company.