Staff Reports
NIAGARA FALLS
Man found living without heat, water
Falls police were called to a home in the 1500 block of Ontario Avenue Sunday after receiving reports of a man living there without heat.
Officers said when they entered the home it had no heat and was about 40 degrees. The resident, a 62-year-old man, was wearing several layers of clothing and appeared to be doing well, the report said.
The resident said he’d been living without heat since the beginning of December when his furnace broke. The man said it needs to be replaced but he can’t afford it. He told officers he had submitted paperwork to HEAP several weeks ago but other than a visit from two men a few weeks ago, has not heard anything back.
Officers noted that the home had no running water as the pipes had froze. Officers also said there is electricity in the home and the room where the man sleeps has two space heaters and was about 65 degrees.
The resident was checked out by a Rural Metro crew and appeared to be in good health, the report noted.
Three arrested in motel
Three Buffalo resident face child endangerment and other charges after an incident at a motel in the 6800 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard about 10:45 p.m. Saturday.
Officers said they were called to the motel for a report of a domestic and the responding officer said he saw three adults and a child in the room through a window. He said two women and a man were sitting at a table listening to music and saw one of the women hit the man several times. The officer noted that the three appeared to be intoxicated and weren’t paying any attention to a 6-year-old child wandering around the room.
Upon entering the room, officers said the woman who had been hitting the man, Sylvia A. Halftown, 22, Buffalo, became argumentative and refused to comply with police orders. Officers added that she also resisted police when they tried to take into custody. They said she was taken to an area hospital after they noticed her breathing hard and sweating profusely despite having a cold temperature.
Halftown was eventually charged with endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest, third-degree domestic violence and obstruction of governmental administration.
Douglas Malkojicz, 40, Buffalo, and Ramona Jimerson, 48, Buffalo, were also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Police contacted the child’s mother in Rochester. She told them she’d come pick up the child on Sunday.
Bar patron says bouncer roughed him up
A 21-year-old city man reported to police that while he was hurt about 1:30 a.m. Sunday while being thrown out of a bar on the 2100 block of Main Street.
The victim said a woman inside the bar accused him of punching her in the face and a “400 pound” bouncer first pushed him, then threw him into a wall inside the bar. After being escorted outside, the victim said he was thrown into the side of a car — at which point the bouncer asked him if he was all right before walking off.
The victim said he later went to the hospital where a doctor told him he had a slight separated shoulder.
NEWFANE
Ewings Road home a total loss
A home at 2998 Ewings Road was listed as a total loss after a fire at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Miller Hose Volunteer Fire Co. and Niagara County Sheriffs deputies responded to the report of a chimney fire and found the house fully engulfed in flames.
All the residents escaped the fire and the homeowner’s vehicle was moved so that fire apparatus could have access. No one was injured and firefighters were able to rescue the family’s golden retriever.
Olcott Fire Co., Barker Fire Co. and Wrights Corners Fire Co. also responded.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Niagara Falls
• DWI: John J. Beedy, 45, 536 10th St., Apt. 3, was charged with DWI and improper lane use about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Falls police. Officers on patrol said they noticed Beedy drive over a curb into a snow bank. After being stopped, officers said Beedy admitted to drinking “three or four beers.” After failing two field sobriety tests, officers said he refused to take any more. A field breath test did register positive for intoxication, the report said, but Beedy refused to take more breath tests once in custody.
• DWI: Robin M. DeLong, 29, 3036 Falls St., was charged with DWI about 2:15 a.m. Sunday, according to Falls police. Police said they spotted DeLong driving slowly in the parking lane on the 400 block of Sixth Street. After being stopped, DeLong told police she had had two “Captain and cokes” before driving. After failing field sobriety tests, officers said she registered a 0.21 percent blood alcohol content on a Datamaster test.
• CHARGED: Roving Anti-Crime Units on patrol Saturday night arrested three people during two different incidents.
About 9 p.m., while on patrol in the 1900 block of Niagara Street, officers said they stopped a car for having a loud muffler and as they approached it, could smell marijuana. The occupants turned over a small bag of marijuana. Anthony R. Soto, 17, 152 78th St., was charged with possession of marijuana.
About an hour later, officers spotted a car pull up to a suspected drug house and a woman run to the house and then quickly back to the car. After she failed to signal a turn, the car was stopped and the occupants turned over marijuana and some pills. Bobbie Jo DiNatale, 38, 768 19th St., and Sandra Edwards, age unavailable, 195 Vadervoort St., North Tonawanda, were each charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana, police said.
• THEFT: The member of a band who had just played a gig at a Niagara Falls Boulevard bar on Saturday night reported someone took two of his guitars while they were loading equipment into a vehicle. The 38-year-old man told police the two guitars were worth about $1,500. The man gave police the name of the band that appeared on stage after his band.
• BURGLARY: The property manager of a building on the 1100 block of 13th Street told police Sunday that sometime Saturday night someone broke a rear window, entered the home and took $300 in copper piping, some tools and three space heaters.
• THEFT: A resident on the 1500 block of Whitney Avenue told police someone entered a garage at the rear of his home and took a stereo from his Jeep sometime Saturday night. Police noted that they couldn’t find where the suspect had entered the garage, there was no damage or signs of forced entry.
• THEFT: A resident in the 600 block of Fourth Street told police sometime between 11 a.m. and noon someone entered his unlocked apartment and took a $500 laptop computer.
• INCIDENT: A resident of a home in the 10000 block of Mueller Court told police someone egged her house during the day Saturday. The resident said it’s the third time it’s happened since Thanksgiving and she suspects her ex-husband.
