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Falls Police narcotics detectives say they have tallied five drug related arrested in the last two weeks, after responding to community complaints.

Investigators said it didn’t take them long to catch a Welch Avenue man who was selling Oxycodone, that was prescribed for him, to folks on the street.

“He had is own prescription for Oxys and he was out of money and trying to make ends meet,” Narcotics Division Capt. Dave LeGault said. “He sold about 90 pills in just the four or five days we had him under surveillance.”

And, LeGault said, the suspect was parting with his pills at bargain prices.

“He was selling them for between $5 and $7 each,” LeGault said. “He said he needed money.”

Edward Weston, 60, 2642 Welch Ave., was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana. Detectives said they found a small amount of pot when they raided Weston’s home.

“When we asked (Weston) what he would do without his medications he just said, ‘I go without’,” LeGault said.

Drug investigators and members of the Emergency Response Team also paid a return visti to

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A two-alarm fire at Westminster Community Charter School in the Kensington-Bailey area was declared under control at 3:30 p.m. today with firefighters saying the blaze had been

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Two local manufacturers are seeking shares of Niagara County

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A Falls teenager, with a history of violent arrests, could face up to eight years behind bars after pleading guilty to assault, weapons and drug charges.

Cornelius Redden, 18, entered the guilty pleas in a deal with prosecutors to close three pending cases against him. He pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance in connection with an October drug bust that caught him with a significant quantity of crack cocaine.

Redden also pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree assault in a May 10 shooting of a rival drug dealer and pled to a charge of attempted second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with a June 2 incident where he accidentally shot himself.

As part of the deal, Niagara County Court Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas agreed to sentence Redden to no more than than 7 years in prison of the assault and weapons charge and no more than one and a half years on the drug charge.

Redden had originally rejected the plea offer and appeared sullen and uncooperative as he stood before Farkas. At one point in the proceedings, Redden told the judge he felt he was being pushed by his attorneys to take the plea deal.

“There was a lot of pressure on me from my lawyers,” he told Farkas.

However, when the judge said she would not go forward if he had been pressured, Redden