A Tesla sedan found abandoned after a crash in Niagara Square late Tuesday night has led to a misdemeanor charge of failure to safely store firearms on Daniel “DJ” Granville. <\/p>\n
Granville is the now retired chief of narcotics for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, who pled guilty to misdemeanors in August for a April 2024 incident where he hit several park cars while driving in Buffalo’s West Side neighborhood in a county-owned vehicle. Calls to 911 categorized it as a “hit-and-run.” <\/p>\n
That incident drew much scrutiny towards Granville, the sheriff’s office and the Buffalo Police Department. Granville’s sister-in-law was one of the high-ranking officers who responded, and was demoted. <\/p>\n
The latest incident began this past Tuesday around 9 p.m., when a federal court officer called Buffalo police about a Tesla T3 that was abandoned in the roadway of Niagara Square near City Hall. The court officer stated he saw a white male wearing a dark blue jacket get out of the Tesla and walk towards another vehicle nearby. <\/p>\n
When police officers arrived, they found the Tesla abandoned and with damage to the right driver’s side. It was still running and unlocked. <\/p>\n
A search of the front truck revealed a duffel bag with a loaded Glock 43 handgun inside, along with a wallet containing a badge and work ID. Further searching found prescription medication and a walkie talkie radio, said the police report. <\/p>\n
The car was impounded, and investigators collected accident debris from the scene. <\/p>\n
The Tesla T3 is registered to Buffalo Biodiesel, according to the police report. That’s the company that employed Granville following his retirement from the sheriff’s office in March.<\/p>\n
Police say they are still investigating as to who was behind the wheel of the car on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
Granville was given an appearance ticket for the alleged unsafe storage of the pistol, following a trace with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms <\/p>\n
This is a developing story, and will be updated when more information is gathered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tesla sedan found abandoned after a crash in Niagara Square late Tuesday night has led to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-198992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}