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Former dispatch supervisor sentenced for sex assault

Brett Rider admitted to assaulting 3 employees off-duty over 10 year period

Former Town of Tonawanda Police dispatch supervisor Brett Rider will spend a decade in jail after admitting to sexually assaulting 3 employees off-duty.
Erie County DA"s Office

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A Kenmore man, a one time dispatch supervisor in the Town of Tonawanda will spend 10 years in prison after admitting to sexually assaulting employees.

48-year-old Brett A. Rider of Kenmore was sentenced this morning and will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release.


Rider engaged in inappropriate, sexually harassing behavior while on-duty as an acting dispatch supervisor for the Town of Tonawanda Police Department. While off-duty, he sexually assaulted three female employees, one by trying to engage in sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion with a female victim in September 2009; another by forcibly touching her intimate parts in June 2017; and he also tried to have sex by forcible compulsion with a third female in November 2019.

He pleaded guilty earlier this year.

Brett Rider admitted to assaulting 3 employees off-duty over 10 year period