{"id":233570,"date":"2026-07-02T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:03:36","slug":"former-erie-county-narcotics-chief-pleads-not-guilty-in-firearm-storage-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233570\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Erie County narcotics chief pleads not guilty in firearm storage case"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Erie County Sheriff’s narcotics chief pleaded not guilty Wednesday after being charged in connection with a firearm storage violation.<\/p>\n

BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Former Erie County Sheriff’s Narcotics Chief DJ Granville was arraigned Wednesday morning in Buffalo City Court on a charge of failing to safely store firearms.<\/p>\n

The charge stems from a loaded handgun that Buffalo Police said was found inside an abandoned, unlocked vehicle<\/a> in May. Officers said the car was still running when they found it.<\/p>\n


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Police say they also recovered medication with Granville’s name on it.<\/p>\n

Granville pleaded not guilty and is due back in court July 29.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Former Erie County narcotics chief charged with firearm storage violation after Niagara Square incident<\/a><\/p>\n

According to a police report, officers found the damaged vehicle left on and unlocked. While preparing the vehicle to be towed, officers searched the car and found a black North Face bag in the front trunk area containing a Glock 43 handgun with a round in the chamber and a full magazine.<\/p>\n

They also found a wallet containing a work ID and badge, prescription medication, clothing, paperwork, a checkbook, a cellphone, and a walkie-talkie radio from inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The vehicle was later towed to the Seneca Street impound lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report states a federal court officer who called 911 told police they saw a white man wearing a dark blue jacket, light blue shirt, and tan pants get out of the vehicle and walk toward a silver or light blue sedan.<\/p>\n

Police said officers and detectives attempted to contact the person connected to the property found inside the vehicle, but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Granville\u2019s attorney, Terry Connors, provided a statement to WGRZ back in May saying, “DJ Granville was not the operator of the vehicle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Erie County Sheriff’s narcotics chief pleaded not guilty Wednesday after being charged in connection with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-233570","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\/233570","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=233570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}