Tonawanda News

November 18, 2009

CRIME: Buffalo police make arrest in Kenmore abduction

By Daniel Pye<br><a href="mailto:pyed@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Dan</a>

Police have made an arrest in the weekend kidnapping of two Kenmore women.

Buffalo Police Spokesman Michael DeGeorge said officers arrested Buffalo resident Errol Fowler-Graham, 17, at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday.

“He is charged with kidnapping, robbery and unauthorized use of a vehicle,” DeGeorge said. “And it is my understanding that other charges could be pending for this individual.”

The arrest stems from a Saturday night abduction, in which Fowler-Graham and another man allegedly used a gun and knife to threaten and kidnap a Kenmore woman getting our of her car in Buffalo. The woman was forced into the car’s back seat and driven to her house, where the men also abducted her roommate and robbed the women’s bank accounts.

Fowler-Graham was arraigned Tuesday afternoon by Buffalo City Court Judge Jeannette Ogden, who ordered that he be assigned an attorney and held on $75,000 bail. The second suspect is still at large.

“Buffalo police are working with Kenmore police in continuing to look for a second suspect,” DeGeorge said.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Kenmore police at 875-1234.

Contact reporter Daniel Pye at 693-1000, ext. 158.