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Niagara Falls
• ASSAULT: Police are investigating an assault in the 600 block of 24th Street. An 18-year-old woman said she was walking in that area at 5:40 p.m. Monday when another woman approached her and punched her five times in the face.
• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 1100 block of Linwood Avenue. A 25-year-old woman told police sometime between 3 and 4:30 p.m. Monday someone entered her home through an open window. Police said there was no sign of forced entry. The victim said a rented home theater system, a rented PlayStation3 game system, a satellite converter, two boxes of diapers and some baby formula were taken.
• THEFT: Police are investigating a theft from a gift shop on O’Laughlin Drive. The store owner told officers a man took “56 collectors knives,” valued at $1,981, from a display case and then made his get-away in a wheelchair.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested for drunken driving after he hit four parked cars in the 2600 block of Welch Avenue and then fled the scene. Marcus Allen Sr., 38, 2941 North Ave., was charged with two counts of driving while intoxicated, four counts of leaving the scene of a property damage accident and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. He was arrested in the 600 block of 24th Street by Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers.
Ransomville
• LARCENY: A Braley Road man told deputies he saw a white male in his 20s enter three unlocked vehicles that were parked in his driveway and took a radar detector Thursday. A report said deputies reviewed surveillance videos that showed the suspect. Deputies are continuing an investigation.
Sanborn
• TRESPASSING: Ian T. Teichler, 30, 217 82nd St., Niagara Falls, was charged Friday with third-degree criminal trespassing. A report said Teichler was remanded to the Niagara County Jail after he was found sleeping in a Buffalo Street man’s motor home parked in the front of his residence. Teichler is being held in lieu of $250 bail.
Wheatfield
• BURGLARY: Employees from the Transportation Center of Western New York, 2242 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls, reported that someone tried to kick in the southeast side of the door of the business. Deputies said there appeared to be no entry into the building and there were two separate shoe marks on the door.
Crime
BLOTTER: Police reports published July 27
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Woman reportedly swept over Horseshoe Falls
Niagara Regional Police cruisers swarmed Table Rock just past 4 p.m. Sunday after getting reports of a woman going over the Horseshoe Falls.
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Robber runs into wrong clerk in Wheatfield
Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a River Road convenience store Saturday night for an attempted robbery.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Feb. 13
Police responded to a burglary on the 6800 of Plaza Drive about 8 p.m. Friday.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Feb. 12
Police are searching for a man who attempted to identify himself as a law enforcement officer in hopes of getting a security job.
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State senator, wife beaten at Seneca Niagara Casino
A state senator and his wife were attacked and beaten and a casino “shareholder” was arrested after one or more incidents at the Seneca Niagara Casino Friday night.
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BLOTTER: Suspects sought in rash of robberies
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Child run over be car on Niagara Avenue
Falls Traffic Division investigators said an 11-year-old boy was struck after he darted into the street, in front of a car as it pulled away from a stop sign.
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Autopsy unable to determine cause or time of Judith Burr’s death
An autopsy by an Erie County Medical Examiner has failed to determine either the time of death or the cause of death of Judith Burr.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Feb. 10
The owner of a bar on the 9700 block of Porter Road called Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies Thursday afternoon to get a car towed that had been sitting in the business’ lot for a week.
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Search continues for Falls jumper
State Park Police were still searching Thursday for a Falls man who jumped from the rapids bridge at Goat Island on Wednesday morning.
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