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A former Bradford man and his mother have been sentenced to three years in federal prison after admitting to international parental kidnapping. 63-year-old Linda Wynn of Jamestown and 40-year-old William Amacher took a then-8-year-old girl to Mexico in 2007 during a custody case. Wynn had custody of the child but the girl’s biological mother was in the process of regaining custody, which prompted Wynn and Amacher to leave the country with the child. Authorities found them in April of 2009 after a Texas law enforcement officer reported that he had seen a disheveled white girl begging for food in a Mexican border town.

A Westfield, New York, teenager is facing charges for shooting bottle rockets in a crowd of people. Sheriff’s deputies say 17-year-old Samaira Dros was with a group of other teens walking on the sidewalk of Morris Street in Fredonia at 9:35 Saturday night when they were shooting the bottle rockets. When the teens were stopped and interviewed, deputies found Dros with a quantity of bottle rockets in her pocket. She was charged with unlawful dealing with fire works and is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.