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For more than 37 years a marker at Sunset Hill Cemetery near Lakewood has noted the final resting place of a woman found slain along old Route 17 in the town of Ellery.
The bronze plate states “Jane Doe 1983,” a simple, yet painful reminder that the woman’s identity and the puzzling events leading up to her murder remain a mystery to this day.
“You’d think something would have come up by now,” said Randy Vanderschaaff, a retired criminal investigator with the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office.
Efforts have been renewed to solve the decades-old homicide by the Sheriff’s Office with the help of a powerful tool unavailable to police in the early ’80s social media.
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Several rabbits and eight goats died in a fire reported Thursday afternoon in the town of Busti.
Crews were called to Big Tree Road, near the New York-Pennsylvania state line, around 1:30 p.m. for a fire inside a double-wide garage.
Firefighters from Busti, Lakewood and Kiantone, along with county fire coordinators and Lakewood-Busti Police, responded to the fire. Flames and heavy smoke were spotted coming from the structure.
An investigation found that the blaze started due to combustible materials being in close proximity to an unattended wood stove, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. No injuries were reported.
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Police are pictured on Interstate 90 on Wednesday with a vehicle reported stolen from a car dealership in Jamestown. A pursuit ended on the thruway near Ripley after it went the wrong way on I-90.
A town of Chautauqua man is facing a host of charges after police say he stole an SUV and led officers on a high-speed chase that included driving the wrong way on Interstate 90.
Jerome Rogerson, 27, of Beech Hill Road, was jailed following the vehicles pursuits Wednesday. The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said it received word from the Jamestown Police Department of a vehicle stolen from a Washington Street Kia dealership.
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A town of Chautauqua man was jailed following a vehicle pursuit on Wednesday.
Photo by Jason Petkov
A town of Chautauqua man is facing a host of charges after police say he stole an SUV and led officers on a high-speed chase that included driving the wrong way on Interstate 90.
Jerome Rogerson, 27, of Beech Hill Road, was jailed following the vehicles pursuits Wednesday. The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said it received word from the Jamestown Police Department of a vehicle stolen from a Washington Street Kia dealership.
Police were able to quickly trace the theft to the Chautauqua man because, according to Capt. Robert Samuelson of the Jamestown Police Department, he left a relative’s car at the dealership. He took the plates off the relative’s car and attached them to the stolen SUV.
Sheriff says Ohio man killed in western NY logging accident
January 25, 2021 GMT
RIPLEY, N.Y. (AP) A 46-year-old Ohio man was killed in a logging accident in western New York, authorities said Monday.
David Byler, of Middlefield, Ohio, was cutting trees in the town of Ripley on Saturday when a tree fell on him, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and then airlifted to UPMC Hamot hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania. He died there on Sunday, the sheriff’s office said.
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