Judge sentences parolee to 10 years in prison for brutal South Buffalo pistol whipping

While released on state parole, Devaughn Holmes racked up more than 150 curfew violations and fled three times from police traffic stops. But it was his gunpoint robbery in South Buffalo while wearing a parole-issued GPS ankle monitor that led to his 10-year prison sentence Monday. U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. sentenced Holmes, 40, on guilty pleas to robbery and brandishing a firearm to further a violent crime. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Cooper said Holmes chased his victim through the streets of South Buffalo on July 31, 2021....