Press

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10/22/2025: Erie County Sheriff's Office and Seneca Nation of Indians Team Up to Combat Drug Trafficking and Sales
08/02/2025: FIRST RESPONDERS PROVIDE LIFE-SAVING CARE TO FAN AFTER BLUE & RED PRACTICE
03/31/2025: Erie County Sheriff's Office teams up with MATTERS to assist MAT enrollees with re-entry
02/06/2025: Erie County Sheriff's Office Forestry Program Assists Non-Profit Dog Sanctuary
01/17/2025: Record Year for Project Blue in 2024
01/17/2025: Erie County Sheriff's Office Adopts Blue Envelope Program
12/27/2024: STATEMENT FROM ERIE COUNTY SHERIFF JOHN C. GARCIA
12/23/2024: SHERIFF GARCIA COMMENDS RESERVE DEPUTIES' LIFESAVING EFFORTS AT HIGHMARK STADIUM
12/16/2024: ERIE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE LAUNCHES ‘HANDLE WITH CARE’ REGISTRY
11/18/2024: Erie County Reentry Coalition Honored by DOJ's Bureau of Justice Assistance
11/07/2024: Erie County Sheriff's Office Selects Trinity Services Group to Manage Food Service Operations for Jail Management Division
09/25/2024: ROCHESTER WOMAN CHARGED IN RETAIL THEFT CONSPIRACY
09/19/2024: Erie County Sheriff's Office Launches Community Engagement Team
08/02/2024: New Project Blue Initiative Aims to Boost Employment for Incarcerated Individuals After Release
07/30/2024: HIT AND RUN INVOLVING PATROL VEHICLE
07/30/2024: Commission of Correction Consent Decree with ECSO Terminated
06/28/2024: Buffalo Man Arrested After Human Trafficking Task Force Investigation
06/05/2024: FELON FACES DRUG, GUN CHARGES AFTER BRIEF INVESTIGATION
05/25/2024: Deputies arrest Buffalo man after fight in front of Buffalo & Erie County Public Central Library
05/25/2024: Good Samaritan pulls two onboard after jet ski capsizes in Niagara River
05/25/2024: Deputies arrest two after Grand Island traffic stop, call for aid after one suspect swallows cocaine
05/15/2024: HOLDING CENTER, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ACCREDITED BY NCCHC
05/15/2024: NEWSTEAD MAN ARRESTED AFTER DRAGGING DEPUTY ATTEMPTING TO EXECUTE A WARRANT
05/01/2024: NARCOTICS AND INTELLIGENCE UNIT ARRESTS BUFFALO MAN AFTER JOINT INVESTIGATION
04/21/2024: DEPUTIES INTERCEPT SUSPECTED K2 AT ERIE COUNTY HOLDING CENTER
04/17/2024: Long Island Woman Arrested While Attempting to Introduce Contraband to the Erie County Correctional Facility
04/16/2024: INVESTIGATION LEADS TO NARCOTICS ARREST IN BUFFALO
08/21/2023: Car Seat Checks
08/11/2023: TRAFFIC INFO FOR THE BILLS’ PRESEASON GAME
08/10/2023: THREE DEPUTIES SELECTED AS RED CROSS’ “REAL HEROES”
08/10/2023: MULTI-AGENCY RAID SEIZES ILLEGALLY POSSESSED GUNS
08/04/2023: TRAFFIC INFO FOR THE BILLS’ OPEN PRACTICE
08/02/2023: TWO ARRESTED FOR GRAND LARCENY FROM COSMETIC STORE
08/02/2023: TIPS RESULTS IN THE ARREST OF A WANTED FELON
08/02/2023: SUSPECTED METH, CONCENTRATED CANNABIS, AND MARIJUANA SEIZED AFTER AN INVESTIGATION
07/28/2023: MORNING RAID SEIZES FENTANYL AND COCAINE IN A SOUTH PARK AVE APARTMENT
07/26/2023: 18 POUNDS OF METH, COCAINE, FENTANYL, GUN AND CASH SEIZED IN RAIDS OF TWO RESIDENCES
07/26/2023: ARRESTS FOLLOWING SMUGGLING ATTEMPT AT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
07/25/2023: SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONDUCTING THREE CAR SEAT CHECKS THIS WEEKEND
07/24/2023: DEPUTY INJURED IN CRASH
07/19/2023: DRIVER WITH 36 SUSPENSIONS, 2 ARREST WARRANTS, AND NARCOTICS ARRESTED FOLLOWING A TRAFFIC STOP
07/19/2023: TWO CHARGED FOLLOWING SMUGGLING ATTEMPT AT THE HOLDING CENTER
07/18/2023: BUFFALO DRIVER CHARGED WITH LEANDRA’S LAW
07/17/2023: NARCOTICS, LOADED FIREARMS SEIZED FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION OF A GRAND ISLAND MAN
07/17/2023: INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL RECEIVED EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE AT THE HOLDING CENTER FOR AN APPARENT OVERDOSE
07/11/2023: NORTHTOWN AUTOMOTIVE AND SHERIFF’S OFFICE TEAM UP FOR FREE CAR SEAT CHECK
07/10/2023: STATEMENT ABOUT BILAL WRIGHT’S GUILTY PLEAS
07/03/2023: HOLDING CENTER MEDICAL STAFF DISCOVERS MASS IN AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL
06/30/2023: UNDERSHERIFF WILLIAM J. COOLEY COMPLETES STATEWIDE TRAINING PROGRAM
06/30/2023: SHERIFF’S MARINE UNIT PARTICIPATING IN OPERATION DRY WATER CAMPAIGN