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July 23, 2008

Staff Reports The Niagara Gazette Wed Jul 23, 2008, 10:25 PM EDT

CITY OF TONAWANDA

GI woman arrested after softball

A Grand Island woman who had too much to drink on softball league night was arrested shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, City of Tonawanda police reported.

Kimberlee J. Connolly, 29, of 989 Carter Drive, had a blood-alcohol content level of 0.27 percent, which is more than three times the legal limit, according to police reports. After her arrest, Connolly was hugging and holding onto officers.

When officers asked where she was coming from, Connolly replied, “Here,” and told them she thought she was on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls, police reports state. Connolly was asked for her license and registration and stepped out of the vehicle to retrieve her license, which she did not have.

Police noted that Connolly had difficulty standing up during field sobriety tests and at one point jokingly told them she was blind. She was held for court.

Niagara Falls

• ASSAULT: A 30-year-old city woman told police she was harassed by a man on Main Street early Wednesday morning. The woman said the man at first whistled at her and made lewd remarks but then approached her from behind, covered her mouth and grabbed her by the throat. She kneed him in the groin and got away. The woman told police the man had also approached her at her job.

• CHARGED: Two city men were charged after a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon. Calvin L. Cain, 38, 440 12th St., Apt. 3, was charged with driving with a suspended registration and no insurance. Robert J. Williams, 22, 2219 Cudaback Ave., was charged with restricted use of alcohol. The two men were charged after police stopped the car they were about 5 p.m. in the 1900 block of Niagara Street for the traffic infractions. Williams, a passenger in the car, had an open can of Bud Ice.

Wheatfield

• LARCENY: An employee of Grandview Construction reported Tuesday that someone entered a building under construction on Cayuga Drive Extension and stole several items, including a sump pump, an aluminum step ladder, a roto hammer, copper plumbing and fittings, a sawzall and a tool box, together worth about $2,380.

• FIRE: A Samantha Court woman called 911 Tuesday evening after she said she was cooking on a stove top when the pan caught on fire. The flames from the pan melted the microwave, which was mounted above the stove, the report said. The Frontier and Bergholz fire companies responded to the scene, but the woman was able to extinguish the blaze before any serious damage was done. There was minor smoke damage to the area around the stove, the report said.

Bergholz

• VANDALISM: An employee of Holy Ghost Lutheran School on Luther Street reported Tuesday that over the weekend someone carved letters and wrote with black marker on the plastic slide and tube on the school playground. Damage was estimated at $200.

Pendleton

• LARCENY: An Oakwood Drive woman reported Tuesday that overnight, someone stole her purse from her kitchen. The purse contained personal papers, credit cards and a cell phone, together worth about $127, the report said.

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