Staff Reports
Niagara Gazette
NIAGARA FALLS —
Niagara Falls
• CHARGED: Jeremy Q. Brown, 24, 1422 Robinson Court, was charged with aggravated DWI and leaving the scene of an accident about 1 a.m. Wednesday, according to Falls police. A witness told police he was parked at a Highland Avenue social club when Brown drove into his car and then took off. The witness followed him and pulled in front of him at one point, stopping him till police arrived. Brown failed multiple field sobriety tests and a Datamaster test registered his blood alcohol content at 0.20 percent.
• DRUGS: Holli N. Johnson, 36, 695 B St., Niagara Falls, was charged Wednesday with criminal possession of a controlled substance and failure to wear a seat belt, according to Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies. Johnson was stopped on Niagara Falls Boulevard for the traffic violation and deputies said she admitted to having two pills in her possession.
• VANDALISM: 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. The owner told police she suspected former tenants who she had recently evicted.
• THEFT: A 58-year-old Pierce Avenue man told police he had just received his monthly check and had placed $531 in his wallet and left it on a kitchen table Wednesday when a man he knows grabbed the wallet and ran off. The victim chased the suspect for a while but couldn’t catch him.
• THEFT: A Virginia woman told police while she was a guest at a Third Street hotel someone rifled through her belongings Tuesday while she was away at a conference and took a $500 tennis bracelet.
• THEFT: A 10th Street teen told police Wednesday that sometime since Sunday someone entered his mother’s house on Ferry Avenue and took an Xbox 360 and Playstation 2 video game systems and a DVD player. The estimated loss is $450. Police noted the youth’s mother was home during the timeframe.
Pendleton
• LARCENY: A Bear Ridge Road man told sheriff’s deputies Wednesday that someone stole a $394.76 generator from his front yard. Deputies said they checked the area but didn’t locate a suspect.
Wheatfield
• LARCENY: An employee at Kimmins Coffee told deputies Tuesday someone stole two toolboxes worth $1,500 from his van while he was working.
