On June 30, 2026, at approximately 4:56 p.m., New York State Police responded to a report of a physical altercation involving a firearm near William Street and Queen Street in the village of Lyons, Wayne County.<\/p>\n
The investigation determined that a verbal dispute escalated into a physical altercation between multiple individuals. During the incident, one of the occupants of a vehicle allegedly displayed a firearm and threatened the victim while preventing others from intervening.<\/p>\n
Troopers quickly located the suspect vehicle, a 2015 Chevrolet Trax, and conducted a traffic stop on Geneva Street in the town of Lyons. All five occupants were safely detained.<\/p>\n
During a protective frisk and subsequent probable cause search of the vehicle, Troopers recovered two loaded handguns, including a loaded 9mm CZ P-07 equipped with a conversion kit and laser attachment, and a loaded Ruger .45 caliber pistol that was determined to have been reported stolen by the Rochester Police Department in September 2024. Troopers also recovered multiple high-capacity magazines and ammunition.<\/p>\n
The following individuals were arrested:<\/p>\n
Justin T. Letts, 20, of Geneva, N.Y., charged with:<\/p>\n
Two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd degree (C felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon 3rd degree (D felony)Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th degree (E felony)Menacing 2nd degree (A misdemeanor)<\/p>\n
Brandon Thomas, 19, of Waterloo, N.Y., charged with:<\/p>\n
Two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd degree (C felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon 3rd degree (D felony)Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th degree (E felony)<\/p>\n
Najib H. Brown, 21, of Waterloo, N.Y., charged with:<\/p>\n
Two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd degree (C felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon 3rd degree (D felony)Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th degree (E felony)<\/p>\n
Harmonajah D. Shorter, 20, of Waterloo, N.Y., charged with:<\/p>\n
Two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd degree (C felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon 3rd degree (D felony)Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th degree (E felony)<\/p>\n
Latrell A. Graves, 19, of Savannah, N.Y., charged with:<\/p>\n
Two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2nd degree (C felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon 3rd degree (D felony)Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4th degree (E felony)<\/p>\n
All five individuals were processed at SP Lyons and transported to the Wayne County Jail for centralized arraignment.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing by the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 30, 2026, at approximately 4:56 p.m., New York State Police responded to a report of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-290307","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\/290307","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=290307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}