Rochester Police say they have arrested two men during Operation Cool Down.

News10NBC is told officers were working the Cool Down detail when they were called to a home on Rosewood Terrace to investigate vice activity.

Police say they observed two suspects, 27-year-old Patrick Williams and 26-year-old Desmond Duncan both of Rochester, in the area and in possession of marijuana. According to officers, an investigation yielded more marijuana and a loaded revolver inside of Williams’ vehicle.

Williams is charged with criminal possession of a weapon and Duncan is charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.

Operation Cool Down started in late May and police told News10NBC they planned to use focused law enforcement tactics including rolling task forces of four to six police cars together patrolling streets and house party details to keep the City safe.

A Rochester man was sentenced Friday for choking an 96-year-old woman in her own home and leaving her for dead.

Judge James Piampiano sentenced 57-year-old Michael Ross to 25 years to life in prison after adjudicating him a persistent violent felon. He was convicted of second degree murder and second degree strangulation in the assault of Vernice Warfield in May 2011.

Ross was helping Warfield, who he had known for years, clean windows in her Herkimer Street home when he violently attacked her, strangling her until she lost consciousness. Ross left the scene, but Warfield eventually regained consciousness and called police. Police were able to find Ross a short time later due to the fact that he was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet as a condition of his most recent parole.
 
In addition to the life sentence, Ross was issued a 100 year order of protection preventing him from contacting Warfield.
 

Twenty five years to life in prison. A judge sentenced Devonte Lively to the maximum penalty for brutally killing an East High School student.

Larie Butler was just 17-years-old.  She would turn 19-years-old on Tuesday. The teen was beat, strangled and stabbed to death in March  2012 by Lively, a family friend. Her body was dumped in a backyard swimming pool in Irondequoit.

“Evil, vile and vicious” are the three words Judge Thomas Moran used to describe Devonte Lively as he sentenced him to the maximum of 25 years to life in prison.

News10NBC was able to speak with Larie Butler's mother shortly after sentencing.

Karen Snipes, Larie's mother, said, “My daughter graduates this year. I have to walk that stage for her. Her birthday is Tuesday. What am I supposed to do?”