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July 30, 2008

BLOTTER: Police reports published July 31

Niagara Falls

• ARREST: A Falls man was charged with drunken driving and other charges. Michael A. Soliday, 30, of Lockport Road, was charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument, driving while intoxicated, and second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Troopers stopped Soliday on Route 31 in the Town of Lewiston about 9:30 p.m. Monday and discovered he was driving without a driver's license. A further investigation revealed Soliday was intoxicated and that his driver’s license was revoked. Troopers also found more than 20 ounces of marijuana, hydrocodone tablets, codeine pills and a hypodermic needle in Soliday’s vehicle.

• CHARGED: Antione R. Harrell, 21, 14D Jordan Gardens, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to Falls police. He was charged after a traffic stop on the 1500 block of Pierce Avenue. Police said he had marijuana and crack cocaine.

• DOG ATTACK: A 46-year-old Cleveland Avenue woman told police she was attacked by a pit bull on the 1000 block of Cleveland Avenue on Tuesday. The woman said she required sutures for her wounds. She did not know who owned the dog.

• THEFT: Staff at an accounting firm on the 1200 block of Pine Avenue told police someone broke into the business Wednesday night and took $20 in $1 bills tapped to a mirror. Another $6 in $1 bills was taken from another area. Staff said nothing else appeared to be missing.

• VANDALISM: The general manager of the Econolodge, 200 Rainbow Blvd., reported Wednesday that a guest from Ohio kicked in a bathroom door and left after being asked to leave his room by noon. Damage was listed at $250.

Pendleton

• ASSAULT: A Tonawanda teen told deputies he drove to Pendleton Park on Irish Road about 7 p.m. Tuesday because his girlfriend told him she was going there to buy ecstasy from another teen and he wanted to stop her. The teen said when he arrived, he was confronted by the other teen and about five or six other teenage boys, who began yelling at him. The teen said he was punched in the face and the teens spit on and threw rocks at his truck. The teen suffered a large contusion to the right side of his forehead, a bruise on the bridge of his nose and bruises on both his knees, his elbows and his back. He was treated at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. The investigation is continuing.

Wheatfield

• LARCENY: A Niagara Falls woman reported Monday that she parked her car at the Summit Mall on Williams Road about 11:45 a.m. She said she gave blood and had lunch and when she started her car about 1:30 p.m., it sounded very loud. She pulled over and checked under the car to find her catalytic converter had been removed. Deputies found a yellow blade from a sawzall lying in the ground. The catalytic converter is worth about $350, the report said.

Porter

• LARCENY: A Lutts Road man reported Tuesday that someone stole a propane gas grill, a weed trimmer and a rototiller from his yard. The items are worth $650, the report said.

Kenmore

• ROBBERY: John D. King, 47, 9705 Niagara Falls Boulevard, Niagara Falls, was charged with second-degree robbery and Michael J. Argentieri, 31, 6 Carriage Hills West St., Amherst, was charged with second-degree robbery, petit larceny and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon at 4:03 p.m. Sunday.

City of Lockport

• MENACING: Paul D. Tuttle, 45, 29 Harwood St., Apt. 1, was charged Tuesday night with third-degree menacing and petit larceny. Tuttle allegedly stole $900 from a Harwood Street woman Saturday. Tuttle allegedly offered to give the woman her money back if she dropped charges against him. When she refused, he allegedly said, “Lockport is going to have its first murder-suicide.” The woman told police she believed Tuttle would kill her and her child. Tuttle was held without bail.

Town of Lockport

• BURGLARY: A Rapids Road man reported Monday that someone stole rare currency and other cash from a safe in his bedroom. The man said 16 $50 bills from 1934, each worth $380, were stolen, along with $1,200 in cash. The safe was locked, and the key was hanging behind a picture frame, the report said.

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