Lyons, N.Y. \u2014 Five people face charges after police said a fight involving a gun in Wayne County led troopers to find illegal guns.<\/p>\n
New York State Police said they responded to a report of a physical altercation involving a gun in the area of William and Queen streets in Lyons at 4:56 p.m. June 30.<\/p>\n
Police said a verbal dispute had escalated into a fight, during which one person inside the vehicle pulled a gun and threatened the victim while preventing others from intervening.<\/p>\n
Troopers found the suspect vehicle and made a traffic stop on Geneva Street in Lyons. Police said they detained all five occupants and searched the vehicle, recovering two loaded handguns \u2014 including one equipped with a conversion kit and laser attachment \u2014 and a loaded .45-caliber pistol reported stolen by the Rochester Police Department in September 2024. They also recovered multiple high-capacity magazines and ammunition.<\/p>\n
The five suspects were each charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen property.<\/p>\n
Justin Letts, 20, of GenevaBrandon Thomas, 19, of WaterlooNajib Brown, 21, of WaterlooHarmonajah Shorter, 20, of WaterlooLatrell Graves, 19, of Savannah<\/p>\n
Letts was also charged with menacing. Police said all five suspects were taken to the Wayne County Jail. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lyons, N.Y. \u2014 Five people face charges after police said a fight involving a gun in Wayne County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-289505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}