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September 26, 2008

Staff Reports The Niagara Gazette Fri Sep 26, 2008, 07:53 PM EDT

TOWN OF TONAWANDA

Police investigating attempted abduction

A man tried to force a Hoover Middle School student to get into his vehicle while she was walking home from school earlier this week, the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District reported Friday.

The incident took place at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday while the student was walking to Colvin Boulevard from the school, Superintendent Mark Mondanaro said in a letter sent home with students on Friday. He said the district wasn’t notified of the incident until Friday.

The student was walking along the off-street driveway of the district’s buildings and grounds department and said the man spoke with an accent, was very tan and had a beard or a mustache. He was driving a black or blue SUV. Those descriptions match reports of a similar incident that occurred this week in the Sweet Home School District.

Amherst police reported Thursday that two teenage girls were approached by a man in a dark-colored SUV in separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday.

Niagara Falls

• THEFT: Police are investigating a car break-in in the 100 block of Old Main Street. A 55-year-old man told officers that sometime between 11 a.m. and noon Friday someone broke into his 2001 Volvo by smashing a passenger-side window. The victim said a laptop computer and $50 was taken.

• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 600 block of 18th Street. A woman told police that sometime between 7:30 a.m. Thursday and noon Friday someone broke into her apartment by kicking in a side door. The victim said a “boombox” was taken.

• ASSAULT: Police are looking for a suspect in an assault in the 1300 block of Main Street, A 46-year-old man told officers he had just left a nearby coffee shop at 8:10 a.m. Friday when another man punched him in the back of the head and knocked him to the ground.

Town of Niagara

• ENDANGERMENT: Kelly Marie Stachowiak, 31, 290 Oakwood Road, Williamsville, was charged Wednesday with endangering the welfare of a child. Deputies on bike patrol in the Cayuga Village noticed a car parked in front of a C Street home, unlocked with the engine running and a child sleeping the back seat. Five minutes later, Stachowiak came out of the home and walked toward the car. Deputies interviewed her and she said she had parked there “only for a few minutes.” Stachowiak said her child had fallen asleep and she did not want to wake him up. She was released on an appearance ticket for Niagara Town Court.

Town of Lockport

• VANDALISM: A Crescent Drive man reported Wednesday that over the weekend, someone spray painted the letters “STFU” on the side of his camping trailer, along with an orange stripe in spray paint. Other neighbors on the block reported similar incidents over the weekend, the report said.

• BURGLARY: A Cardinal Drive woman reported Tuesday that someone stole her Compaq laptop from its case and $80 in cash from her underwear drawer. The laptop is worth $800, the report said.

Newfane

• LARCENY: A West Creek Road woman reported Thursday that someone made two purchases using her checking account in Montreal on Sept. 20. The purchases totaled $172.12.

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