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July 27, 2009

Staff Reports The Niagara Gazette Mon Jul 27, 2009, 10:23 PM EDT

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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