LOCKPORT — Niagara County District Attorney Brian D. Seaman announced that a North Tonawanda man plead guilty to Assault in the Second Degree, for striking a pedestrian, and will also receive a state prison sentence.
Joshua Myles-Jones, age 38 of North Tonawanda, plead guilty in County Court on July 15, 2025, to the crime of Assault in the Second Degree. Myles-Jones admitted to recklessly causing serious physical injury to a pedestrian on April 17, 2025, on Payne Avenue in North Tonawanda, when his vehicle left the roadway and struck a man who was walking on the sidewalk. Myles-Jones then fled the scene.
Myles-Jones faces between 3 and 7 years in state prison, as a second felony offender, when he returns to court to be sentenced by County Court Judge John Ottaviano. The case was investigated by the North Tonawanda Police Department and was prosecuted by Vehicular Crimes Bureau Chief Christine Savoia.