BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Rochester man was sentenced to five years of probation for bringing a loaded, illegal handgun to a March For Our Lives protest in Buffalo last summer.
Amauri Smith, 20, was sentenced to five years probation for attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
On June 11, 2022, Buffalo Police Department Intelligence Unit members saw Smith walking on Jefferson Avenue near Glenwood Avenue. They spotted what appeared to be a handgun in his pocket.
Officer confronted him and found the loaded, illegal handgun.
Smith pleaded guilty to one count of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in November.
