LOCKPORT

Football player

faces five charges

A Lockport High School football player faces several charges after leading police on a foot chase Saturday evening.

Javeon K. Tomlinson, 17, 283 North Transit St., was charged with third-degree assault, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, second-degree burglary, resisting arrest and fourth-degree criminal mischief.

Police were called to a report of a woman being assaulted about 6 p.m. According to the report, the victim told officers Tomlinson kicked in the victim’s door and attempted to assault her.

Tomlinson was located a short time later and refused to stop for officers. He was told he was under arrest and a foot chase ensued. Tomlinson, a junior reserve running back, escaped officers, but was brought to police headquarters by his parents without incident.

The victim requested a full-order of protection.

Officers noted Tomlinson was still wearing his No. 21 Lockport Lions jersey. The Lockport football team played Niagara Falls Saturday afternoon.



Newfane

DWI charge after man tries to tow his car from ditch

A Burt man who drove his vehicle into a ditch on Wilson-Burt Road and returned with another vehicle to pull it out was charged with drunken driving about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Niagara County Sheriff’s Department.

Stopping to offer assistance, deputies said Robert Demorest Jr. told them, “I left the party and drove my car into the ditch, and then this lady stopped and gave me a ride home, so I grabbed my dad’s car and drove it back here to pull my car out.”

As he was telling this to deputies, they noticed he smelled of alcohol, had glassy eyes and was slurring his speech. Demorest told them he’d had one beer at the party but failed field sobriety tests. His alcohol blood content was later measured at 0.13 percent.

Demorest, 20, 2052 Lockport-Olcott Road, Burt, was charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to use a designated lane.

The two cars were towed and were being held for 12 hours due to the fact Demorest admitted to driving both vehicles in his intoxicated condition, deputies said.



Niagara Falls

• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after a shoplifting incident. Roy Morgan, 49, 477 21st St. Apt. 1, was charged with petit larceny. Morgan is accused of taking a 24-pack of Coors and a trailer hitch from a store in the 1500 block of Military Road at 1:40 p.m. Sunday.

• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary in the 5800 block of Buffalo Avenue. A 50-year-old woman told officers sometime between 5 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. Sunday someone broke into her apartment by forcing open a door. The victim said a small refrigerator was taken.

• VANDALISM: Officers are looking into an incident of vandalism. A 48-year-old man told police he was driving in the 1400 block of College Avenue at 8:45 a.m. Sunday when someone threw an object off a bridge and damaged the windshield of his vehicle.

• ARREST: A Bronx man was arrested on drug charges. Juno Curvin Ferreira, 29, 1748 Givan Ave., was charged with third-degree criminal possession of marijuana. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents said Ferreira had 11 ounces of marijuana in his possession as he attempted to cross the Rainbow Bridge from Canada into the U.S., on a bus at 3 a.m. Sunday.

• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested for creating a disturbance outside a tavern in the 8800 block of Cayuga Drive at 4 a.m. Sunday. Tina M. Soliday, 29, 8267 Lockport Road, was charged with disorderly conduct.

• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested for creating a disturbance outside a tavern in the 200 block of Ferry Avenue at 2:15 a.m. Sunday. Nicole Carr, 21, 434 Cedar Ave., was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct.

• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested on drug charges. Lamont S. Streeter, 30, 4600 Hyde Park Blvd., Apt. 105, was charged with third- and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers said they saw Streeter make a hand-to-hand drug sale in the 1900 block of Ferry Avenue at 9:22 p.m. Saturday. Streeter had 1.7 grams of powdered cocaine in his possession when police took him into custody.

Wilson

• GRAND LARCENY: A Meahl Road man reported that sometime over the last week an unknown person stole approximately 48 no trespassing signs located on his property on Maple Road. The man also reported that sometime over the summer an unknown person stole a large amount of wood. Over the last year approximately 200 no trespassing signs were taken. The total loss is estimated at $3,000.