GENESEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORT/Alabama man charged with forcible touching

Billy Joe Trantham, 78, of Bloomingdale Rd., Alabama, is charged with forcible touching after an investigation into a sex offense that occurred on Bloomingdale road in Alabama on February 16, 2017. Trantham allegedly touched the intimate parts of another person without their consent. Trantham was released on an appearance ticket …

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WYOMING COUNTY/Attica/Woman accused of neglecting four children

On Thursday, February 17, 2017, while assisting the Wyoming County Child Protective Services in an investigating of possible child neglect, four children were found living in unsanitary and deplorable conditions. The children, with the cooperation of the defendant Lisa A. Strong, 34, of Exchange St.Attica, were removed and placed into …

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WYOMING COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORT/Warsaw man arrested after making threatening calls to 9-1-1 dispatchers

John D. Carpenter, 65, of Salina St., Warsaw, was arrested following multiple threatening and alarming phone calls to the Wyoming County 9-1-1 Center on February 15, 2017. Carpenter made repeated 9-1-1 calls reporting that people were going to die, among other alarming statements. Carpenter told dispatchers at one point that …

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WYOMING COUNTY/Pair plead guilty to criminally negligent homicide in death of two boys

Jennings                                     Staley On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, before the Hon. Michael M. Mohun, Tyler Jennings, 34, of Farmington and Chad Staley, 32, of Rochester, both entered a plea of guilty to 1 count of criminally negligent homicide. This charge is a class E felony with a maximum sentence of 1 …

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