Stokes set to face trespassing charge
Updated: Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 8:47 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 8:47 AM EST
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A former Buffalo restaurant owner at the center of a City Hall controversy, is set to face a judge Thursday in an unrelated case.
Leonard Stokes is scheduled to appear in Buffalo city court Thursday morning.
Stokes is accused of being involved in an altercation at a Herman Street beauty shop in January and faces a non-criminal trespass charge.
Mayor Byron Brown is accused of getting Stokes out of an arrest two years ago during a police investigation into stolen handicapped parking permits.
Funding for his failed, One Sunset restaurant is also being questioned.
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