BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced that 36-year-old Jason L. Tyus pleaded guilty on Thursday in Erie County Court to two counts of third-degree burglary.
According to the district attorney's office, on July 31, 2022, Tyus unlawfully entered a pizzeria on the 1400 block of Kensington Avenue in Buffalo by breaking a front window. He caused damage to the building and the cash register and stole an undetermined amount of cash. A short time later, Tyus unlawfully entered a gas station convenience store located on the same block of Kensington Avenue by breaking windows. He caused damage to the building and stole a cash register that contained an undetermined sum of cash. The damaged cash register was found by police in a nearby parking lot on Hewitt Avenue.
Tyus faces a maximum of seven years in prison when he is sentenced as a second felony offender on March 10. He was held without bail.
The district attorney's office said Tyus committed the crimes while pending sentence in diversion court after he pleaded guilty to the highest charge in five separate burglaries that he committed in the City of Buffalo and Town of Cheektowaga last year.
The other burglaries occurred:
- On February 10, 2022, at a flower shop on the 1200 block of East Delavan Avenue in the City of Buffalo
- On February 12, 2022, at a pizzeria on the 1500 block of East Delavan Avenue in the Town of Cheektowaga
- On February 12, 2022, at a second business on the 1500 block East Delavan Avenue in the Town of Cheektowaga
- On March 9, 2022, at a deli on the 1000 block of Kensington Avenue in the City of Buffalo
- On April 8, 2022, at the same deli on the 1000 block of Kensington Avenue in the City of Buffalo
