The Buffalo Police Department threat management unit has received information from the same Russian-based account multiple times.
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Unsubscribe PodcastSep 13, 2026
No source addresses the claimed Russian-based account or any repeated information from it reaching the Buffalo Police Department's Threat Management Unit. The sources only confirm that the unit exists (a Detective Division unit handling ERPO petitions), and the only support for the claim is the podcast speaker's own account, which cannot corroborate it.
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What was said
… I was going to do also, but it's kind of like it's simultaneously, I'm going to let one of the big heads of the department know, and I'm also going to let this other unit know, who's like a threat management unit, and, ah, so I gave them all the information. They were like, yeah, actually, not the first time that they've gotten information from that account. That account has posted it several times, and it's a Russian account. It's from Russia. It says it says, like, hey, I'm located here. I didn't know that. That's the uh, that was uh, not the first time they got it from that account. That's interesting. …
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Context. The Buffalo Police Department's Detective Division includes a Threat Management unit, and a 2026 source says the unit has four detectives and a sergeant handling extreme risk protection orders.[1][2][3]
Context. None of the sources mention a Russian-based account, tips from that account, or repeated reports from it to the Threat Management Unit; the Buffalo Police Department's official X account and other listings do not address the matter.[4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1DEPARTMENT OF POLICEbuffalony.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Implementing extreme risk protection orderspoliceforum.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Examining the impact of the Red Flag Law in New York statespectrumlocalnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Buffalo Police Departmentx.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5District E - Buffalo Police Department211wny.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Police Department - Buffalo, MNci.buffalo.mn.us · not rated · cited for: context
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