Drug sweep at NFHS leads to one arrest

A drug sweep at the start of classes Thursday at Niagara Falls high School led to one arrest.

Anthony M. Burge, 18, 23 C Packard Court, was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.

Drug-sniffing dogs from the Niagara Falls and Lockport police departments, along with a K-9 from the Erie County Sheriff’s Department, conducted a sweep of the high school’s lockers while students were locked-down in their classrooms.

One of the dogs indicated that there were drugs in Burge’s locker. When school administrators searched the locker, they found 0.16 grams of marijuana.



Niagara Falls

• INCIDENT: Police are investigating an incident outside Gaskill Middle School. Officers were called there at 12:30 p.m. Thursday after a school administrator reported that students, who were looking out a window at Independence Avenue, were alarmed because they could see two men shooting at each other with what appeared to be pellet guns. Before police arrived, the two men left the area without any apparent injuries.

• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 8700 block of Buffalo Avenue. A 60-year-old man told police that sometime between Sept. 17 and 4 p.m. Tuesday, someone broke into his home by “jimmying” a door. The victim said his wallet, containing an unemployment insurance debit card, was taken. The man also said that someone had used the debit card to withdraw $200 from an ATM.

Pendleton

• RECOVERED: An employee of the West Canal Marina reported Tuesday that he found a plastic bag floating in the canal near Tonawanda Creek Road. He retrieved it and found it contained several hundred hypodermic needles, a cooking steamer, two round flat weights and a disco ball. The hypodermic needles were stored in two glass wine jugs, the report said.

Sanborn

• VANDALISM: Daniel Doyle, 18, 710 Brighton Road, Tonawanda, was charged Wednesday with fourth-degree criminal mischief. An employee of Niagara Academy on Saunders Settlement Road told deputies Doyle damaged a brand new desk during a “fit of anger,” the report said. The desk was valued at $297.30.

Cambria

• LARCENY: An employee of Critelli Builders on Blackman Road reported Wednesday afternoon that overnight, someone broke a lock on a trailer on Green Road and stole a power washer and an attached spray wand, together worth $1,260. A garage door at the site was also damaged.

City of Lockport

• HARASSMENT: Roberto R. Pagen, 52, 6 Ashley Place, was charged Wednesday afternoon with second-degree harassment. Pagen allegedly approached a postal worker who was delivering mail on Ashley Place and would not leave. The victim said Pagen threatened to kill her several times, causing her to be afraid and annoyed, the report said. Pagen was found by police on Washburn Street and arrested. He is being held in lieu of $100 bail and is due Wednesday in Lockport City Court.

• RESISTING: Brandon M. Jenkins, 23, 264 Garden St., Apt. E, was charged Wednesday evening with second-degree obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. An officer stopped to talk to Jenkins on Genesee Street on Sept. 6 in regards to a parole warrant. Jenkins allegedly started to run. Sheriff’s deputies joined with Lockport police in setting up a perimeter, but Jenkins was not found. He was arrested Wednesday at a home on Harvey Avenue and was held without bail. He is due Wednesday in Lockport City Court.

Town of Lockport

• DRUG POSSESSION: Danielle K. Baker, 19, 330 Plank Road, was charged Tuesday with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a narcotic drug, criminal possession of a narcotic drug with intent to sell and unlawful possession of marijuana. Deputies responded to a report of a suspicious car in a parking lot on Robinson Road. They approached the car and spoke to the occupants and reportedly saw a clear plastic bag containing marijuana in Baker’s purse on the floor of the car. Baker allegedly admitted to having hydrocodone pills, as well. Baker was arrested, and a search of her purse yielded $714 in cash, 186 oxycontin pills, 46 hydrocodone pills and a partial ecstasy pill, the report said. She is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

• DRUG POSSESSION: Anthony Dutcher, 16, 8426 Rochester Road, Gasport, was charged Tuesday afternoon with criminal possession of a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of a child and petit larceny. Dutcher allegedly tried to sell a prescription pill to another student while at the Henrietta Lewis School on Lake Road. He is being held in lieu of $500 bail.

• PETIT LARCENY: A Bedell Road, Grand Island man told deputies Tuesday night that sometime Monday, someone removed a deadbolt, three door handles, two screen doors and a cabinet door from an apartment he owns on Robinson Road. The value of the items is $420.

• VANDALISM: A Bayview Station, Newfane woman reported Sunday that while her car was parked on Glendale Drive, someone apparently threw an object at the windshield, causing a spider web crack. Damage is estimated at $700.

Newfane

n AUTO THEFT: A Lockport-Olcott Road woman reported Tuesday morning that between Sept. 30 and Monday, someone stole her 1993 Buick Regal from a yard on Hope Lane. The vehicle, worth $500, contained several household tools, also worth $500.