Crime
BLOTTER: Police reports published July 28
Niagara Falls
• THEFT: Police are investigating a car break-in in the 300 block of Third Street. A 42-year-old Massachusetts tourist told officers that sometime between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday someone broke into her ’01 SAAB. The victim said two iPods, a camera and $300 was taken.
n BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 500 block of 10th Street. A 20-year-old woman told police that sometime between 11 p.m. Sunday and 7:15 a.m. Monday someone broke into her house through a window. The victim said six CDs, four DVDs and a board game were taken.
Wilson
• HARASSMENT: Deputies responded to Lake and Young streets Saturday evening for a report of a fight. A Maple Road man said he was having a discussion with another man about his son driving a car without insurance when the son came out of the house and began to punch him several times in the head and face. The son admitted attacking the Maple Road man and said he was defending his father, the report said. The man refused treatment for injuries and did not want to press charges.
• ASSAULT: A19-year-old Burt man reported Sunday that he was standing outside a barn on Fitch Road about 3:30 a.m. when a man punched him in the head and broke his nose. The man said he continued to “hang out” for about 15 minutes, and then another man came up to him and punched him in the right eye, causing him to fall onto a piece of equipment, resulting a cut above his eye. He was treated at Eastern Niagara Hospital-Newfane. The man told deputies he wished to press charges, and warrants were issued, the report said.
Lewiston
• DAMAGE: The owner of Wendt’s Propane on Ward Road reported Sunday that he arrived for work to find that one of the trucks had been driven into the garage door over the weekend. The garage door, worth about $2,000, suffered considerable damage, but the truck was not damaged, the report said. The man said there was no damage to the steering column of the truck to indicate someone was trying to steal it. There was no evidence that anyone gained entry to the garage, the report said.
City of Tonawanda
• DISORDERLY: Ernst T. Nagurney, 31, 1419 97th St., Niagara Falls, was arrested Sunday for disorderly conduct after an altercation with a plain-clothes police officer at Canal Fest.
• FIREWORKS: Anthony J. Paris, 18, 2177 Bedell Road, Apt. 7B, Grand Island, was arrested Sunday for illegally possessing fireworks. Also charge was Joseph M. O’Neil, 18, 1000 Kenmore Ave., Apt. 3, Buffalo. Paris was turned over to Lancaster police on a warrant there. O’Neil was released after being issued an appearance ticket.
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Man drowns off of Olcott Harbor
A 37-year-old Rochester man drowned Thursday afternoon in Lake Ontario, just off Olcott Harbor.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Sept. 3
No one was injured after a damaged electrical wire sparked flames to an apartment complex on Van Buren Street Thursday morning.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Sept. 2
A 70th Street property owner called police Wednesday after finding someone had smeared feces on a living room wall, stuck a carving knife into a kitchen cabinet and broke four panes of glass in a garage at a vacant residence.
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Motorcyclist leads cops on dangerous South End chase
A 12th Street man faces numerous charges, including three counts of second-degree attempted assault for nearly driving into two cops and ramming a police vehicle, after a chase through the city’s South End late Wednesday afternoon.
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BLOTTER: Police Reports published Sept. 1, 2010
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Shooting, car chase rock North End
Falls police are looking for a suspect in a daring daylight shooting spree that ended in a car crash in the North End.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Aug. 31
Thirty-four people were charged by Genesee County Sheriff’s Department deputies during the Tom Petty concert at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center Saturday — three were from Niagara County.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Aug. 30
Police are investigating the theft of a “rebel flag.”
- BLOTTER: Police Reports published Aug. 27, 2010
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BLOTTER: Police reports published Aug. 26
A Falls man was charged with DWI after police said he caused a chain-reaction accident inside the Seneca Niagara Casino parking ramp early Wednesday morning.
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