Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli is on his way to Washington, resigning on September 15th to take up a job with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Ciminelli was named police chief during Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren’s first term in 2014. Mayor Warren says in a statement that he provided strong and steady leadership, introducing innovations […]
Half-a-dozen Rochester 911 Center employees have been placed on administrative leave after they failed to follow procedure in the case of Trevyan Rowe, the autistic City School District student who drowned last week in the Genesee River. Trevyan walked away from school Thursday morning. About half-an-hour later, drivers began calling 911 to report a young […]
Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli is replying to questions of why no Amber Alert was declared in the case of a missing Rochester five-year-old. The chief says, in a nutshell, it’s because police had a good idea of where Laylani Ortz was, but couldn’t disclose it without possibly alerting the child’s mother, who had taken […]