Staff Reports
Niagara Gazette
NIAGARA FALLS —
Niagara Falls
• ASSAULT: Police are investigating an assault in the 600 block of 24th Street. An 18-year-old woman said she was walking in that area at 5:40 p.m. Monday when another woman approached her and punched her five times in the face.
• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 1100 block of Linwood Avenue. A 25-year-old woman told police sometime between 3 and 4:30 p.m. Monday someone entered her home through an open window. Police said there was no sign of forced entry. The victim said a rented home theater system, a rented PlayStation3 game system, a satellite converter, two boxes of diapers and some baby formula were taken.
• THEFT: Police are investigating a theft from a gift shop on O’Laughlin Drive. The store owner told officers a man took “56 collectors knives,” valued at $1,981, from a display case and then made his get-away in a wheelchair.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested for drunken driving after he hit four parked cars in the 2600 block of Welch Avenue and then fled the scene. Marcus Allen Sr., 38, 2941 North Ave., was charged with two counts of driving while intoxicated, four counts of leaving the scene of a property damage accident and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. He was arrested in the 600 block of 24th Street by Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers.
Ransomville
• LARCENY: A Braley Road man told deputies he saw a white male in his 20s enter three unlocked vehicles that were parked in his driveway and took a radar detector Thursday. A report said deputies reviewed surveillance videos that showed the suspect. Deputies are continuing an investigation.
Sanborn
• TRESPASSING: Ian T. Teichler, 30, 217 82nd St., Niagara Falls, was charged Friday with third-degree criminal trespassing. A report said Teichler was remanded to the Niagara County Jail after he was found sleeping in a Buffalo Street man’s motor home parked in the front of his residence. Teichler is being held in lieu of $250 bail.
Wheatfield
• BURGLARY: Employees from the Transportation Center of Western New York, 2242 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls, reported that someone tried to kick in the southeast side of the door of the business. Deputies said there appeared to be no entry into the building and there were two separate shoe marks on the door.
