NIAGARA FALLS
Substation cop makes an arrest on first day
A community police officer assigned to the new South End police substation notched his first arrest on Wednesday.
Officer Mike Corcoran charged Richard Handley II, 23, 1220 Haeberle Ave., with disorderly conduct after he fled from officers who were looking for a suspect in a nearby assault.
Corcoran said Handley was on a bicycle in the middle of the 400 block of 20th Street blocking traffic when he approached him with other officers. Handley raced away on his bike and Corcoran pursued him in his patrol car into an alley in the 400 block of 19th Street.
After a collision between Handley’s bike and Corcoran’s patrol car in the alley, Handley ran into a home in the 400 block of 20th Street and was captured by Corcoran in the kitchen of the residence.
Niagara Falls
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after a shoplifting incident at a store in the 7400 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard. Deon L. Johnson, 43, 342 10th St., Apt. 2, was charged with attempted petit larceny. A store security officer said he observed Johnson taking clothing and CDs at 4:39 p.m. Wednesday.
• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary in the 500 block of 56th Street. An 18-year-old woman told officers sometime between 5:30 and 11:45 p.m. Tuesday someone broke into her home by forcing open the front door. The victim said a computer was taken.
• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested after she created a disturbance at a police safety checkpoint. Christine M. Jeffords, 24, 4600 Hyde Park Blvd., Apt. 9, was charged with disorderly conduct and no seat belt. Officers said after being pulled over for not wearing a seat belt at Pine Avenue and Robbins Drive at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jeffords became verbally abusive and created a disturbance.
• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 1300 block of Whitney Avenue. A property owner told police sometime between 4 p.m. Nov. 4 and 3 p.m. Friday someone broke into his home through a pair of side windows and stole the water meter and over $500 worth of copper pipe.
• ASSAULT: Police are looking for a suspect in connection with an assault at the corner of 19th and Niagara streets. The 23-year-old man told officers another man was following him around a store in the 1800 block of Niagara Street, at 1 p.m. Wednesday, after he refused to give the man a cigarette. When both men went outside, the victim said the suspect attacked him and knocked him to the ground.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after playing music in his car too loudly in the 1800 block of Niagara Avenue at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. Robert J. Payne Jr., 26, 2035 Lockport St. Apt. 41, was charged with disorderly conduct.
Crime
BLOTTER: Police reports published Nov. 19
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Man presumed drowned in Niagara River
Emergency crews called off a search in the lower Niagara River for a person who was swept away by the water Saturday afternoon.
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California tourists robbed at gunpoint in Falls
Falls police are investigating a report of armed robbery from a parking lot in the 100 block of Niagara Street Saturday.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published May 27
Police are investigating a reported theft in the 400 block of 20th Street.
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FIRE CALLS: Niagara Falls fire reports published May 26
For the period of May 14 to 20 the Niagara Falls Fire Department responded to 129 calls. The total number of service calls for 2012 to date is 2,213.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published May 26
Police are investigating a robbery in the 1100 block of Walnut Avenue.
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Korean student robbed at gunpoint in Falls
Detectives are investigating the robbery of a 25-year-old woman Wednesday night in front of a motel in the 400 block of Main Street.
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Bomb threat leads to arrest at NT school
A North Tonawanda teen was arrested Thursday morning for sending a one-sentence bomb threat to the computer of a fellow high school student, resulting in a brief lockdown of the school.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published May 25
Police are investigating a burglary in the 400 block of 24th Street.
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Fugitive in meth case caught
Moments after Falls police narcotics detectives and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents uncovered a clandestine meth lab in the city's Echota neightborhood, their prime suspect sent a cryptic text message to Detective Joe Palmero.
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BLOTTER: Police reports published May 24
A Youngstown woman was arrested after a domestic incident in the 200 block of 61st Street at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday.
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