Former Rochester Police Officer Michael Sippel was sentenced to three years’ probation on his misdemeanor assault conviction. The former officer was found guilty in May of assaulting Christopher Pate, whom he suspected wrongly of being a burglary suspect. Pate said that despite showing his ID he was beaten and hit with a Taser. The incident […]
Federal prosecutors say a Puerto Rican man convicted of selling fentanyl in Rochester has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 29-year-old Xavier Hernandez-Gerena was arrested for selling fentanyl last summer and police seized quantities of the drug from him nearly a year ago.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren wants to offer tax incentives to those who build new single-family or two-family homes in the city. The only deal is that the housing has to be owner -occupied. The city has had some success in developing housing around town, but the Mayor’s Office says 90 percent of that development has […]