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Anonymous Niagara Gazette The Niagara Gazette Mon Oct 24, 2011, 12:28 AM EDT

NIAGARA FALLS — Niagara Falls

Man jumped on Niagara Street

A man told police he was attacked late Friday by five men 22nd and Niagara streets.

The victim said he was driving his cousin around when his cousin met a person. The victim agreed to drive his cousin’s acquaintance to 22nd and Niagara streets.

Once they arrived, his cousin left the vehicle to use the bathroom. After five minutes of waiting, the victim texted his cousin, who was nowhere in sight. The cousin’s acquaintance got back in the car and told the victim he would need a ride to Hyde Park Boulevard.

At that point, the victim said four men came around the side of the building. The men, along with the cousin’s acquaintance, began punching and kicking the victim.

The victim’s cell phone, $1,300 cash and a $12,000 gold chain were taken during the robbery.

The victim walked to a store and asked to use the telephone to call police. Later, the victim got in touch with his cousin and asked him to return to Niagara Street, but the cousin said he wasn’t going to because there were cops all around.

Niagara Falls

• DWI: A 54-year-old Niagara Falls man was charged with DWI, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, consumption of an alcoholic beverage in a public place and unsafe backing at 9:10 p.m. Friday. Police responded to a property damage accident in the 1800 block of Pine Avenue. Joseph Thomas Jr., 54, 2408 Woodlawn Ave., backed into a taxi at that location. Thomas said the taxi was parked too closely and didn’t leave him room to get out. “I hit that car with my truck and I will hit any car if I don’t have room,” Thomas told police. Officers detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage and asked Thomas to perform roadside sobriety tests. After failing the tests, he was charged. Officers said there was no damage to either vehicle.

• BURGLARY: Someone broke a $500 window to steal $150 cash and a $25 lock box from a business in the 100 block of Portage Road. Officers said a piece of concrete was used to break the window. The burglary was reported Saturday morning after workers discovered the manager’s office was broken into.

• BURGLARY: A landlord received a bit of surprise on Saturday morning when his tenant told him the residence did not have running water. The landlord discovered that the copper was taken from underneath the kitchen sink, the hot water tank and the water pipe to the street in the 600 block of 24th Street. The incident occurred between 11 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday. The copper was valued at $500.

• PETIT LARCENY: Walter Darryl Lamar, 42, 1967 Niagara St., Apt. 206, was charged with petit larceny at 4:20 p.m. Friday for taking $11.27 in personal care items from a store in the 2300 block of Hyde Park Boulevard.

• CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: A resident of the 8200 block of Bollier Avenue told police they heard what sounded like an explosion at 1:40 a.m. Saturday. When the person went outside, they discovered that all four tires on their vehicle were going flat because they had just been slashed. Damage was listed at $500.

• CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: Three windows were broken across the city on Friday. At 1 p.m., a resident in the 300 block of 13th Street said someone broke their $60 living room window. At 7:05 p.m., a $50 window was broken in the 7400 block of Buffalo Avenue. At 9:45 p.m., a $300 window was smashed in the 200 block of 72nd Street.

City of Tonawanda

• WARRANT: Robert E. Tall, 33, 63rd Street, Niagara Falls, was brought to Tonawanda police on Friday morning by Erie County Sheriff’s Deputies to answer an outstanding bench warrant for criminal possession of a controlled substance. The original charge dated back to April. He was held for court.

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