Staff Reports
Niagara Gazette
NIAGARA FALLS —
Niagara Falls
• THEFT: Police are investigating the theft of a “rebel flag.” A 24-year-old man told officers sometime between 4 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. Sunday someone removed the flag from the front porch of his home in the 500 block of 25th Street.
• THEFT: Officers are looking into a theft from a home in the 900 block of Ontario Avenue. A 63-year-old man told police he let a woman into his home at 2 a.m. Saturday to “perform services.” The victim said the woman then took a 20-inch flat screen TV and ran from his home.
n THEFT: Police are investigating a purse-snatching incident in the 300 block of Duggan Drive. A 70-year-old woman told officers she was walking in the area at 11 a.m. Sunday when two men tried to grab her purse. The purse was ripped from her shoulder but the suspects fled without getting it.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested on multiple charges. Jared L. Atwood, 22, 4752 Garlow Road, was charged with second-degree assault, second-degree menacing, third-degree burglary, possession of burglar tools, second-degree obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct and restricted use of alcohol in a public place. Officers said they stopped Atwood in the 500 block of 80th Street at 1:30 a.m. Sunday because he matched the description of a suspect in a domestic incident. Atwood was reportedly walking and drinking a beer and had a flashlight in his possession. When he was taken into custody he began banging his head on the plexiglass partition in the police patrol car. He was later positively identified by two witnesses who said he broke into their garage in the 500 block of 80th Street, then attacked one of them, striking them in the stomach with a baseball bat.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after police said he stole over $100 in tips from a bartender at a bar in the 8800 block of Cayuga Drive at 3 a.m. Sunday. Broderick H. Campbell, 30, 9226 Niemel Drive, Apt. 2, was charged with petit larceny and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.
n ARREST: A Buffalo man was arrested after police found him drunk and sleeping in the grass at Hyde Park at 10:06 p.m. Saturday. Virgil Morgan, 40, 19 Wholers St., was charged with disorderly conduct.
• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested after she created a disturbance in the 400 block of Fourth Street at 4 a.m. Sunday. Kristyn M. Breisch, 29, 459 Fourth St., was charged with disorderly conduct.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after police said he ran from them in a known drug area. Rodriquez Burton, 21, 1157 Haeberle Ave., was charged with first-degree loitering, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers said they saw Burton in a known drug area in the 700 block of Eight Street. When the officers tried to stop Burton, he fled from them on a bicycle and then fought with the officers as they tried to take him into custody.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested on drug-related charges. Sean Gray, 22, 848 80th St., was charged with first-degree loitering and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Officers said they saw Gray make a hand-to-hand drug transaction with another man at Seventh Street and Pine Avenue at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Gray had a small quantity of crack cocaine in his possession at the time of his arrest.
• MARIJUANA: Daniel W. Miles, 30, 515 29th St., was charged Saturday with a seat belt violation and unlawful possession of marijuana. Police detected an odor of marijuana and found baggies containing green leafy vegetable matter in a vehicle Miles was in, according to a report.
Cambria
• DWI: Heather R. Bolton, 33, 5674 Hinman Road, was charged Sunday with driving while intoxicated and speeding. At 1:30 a.m., Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies observed a vehicle traveling 64 mph in a 45 mph zone. A strong odor of alcohol was reportedly emitted from the vehicle, and Bolton had glassy eyes and slightly slurred her speech. She failed field sobriety tests and was found to have a 0.09 percent blood alcohol content, the report said.
Ransomville
• BURGLARY: According to a Niagara County Sheriff’s report, someone broke into Ransomville Cold Storage on Curtiss Avenue between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday and damaged property and made a mess of the building. There were a couple of broken windows and walls that were spray-painted. It appeared that a man door on the west side of the building had been kicked in. The unknown suspects threw tools and soda cans all over the building and took a television from the office and threw it on to a cooling system, breaking the television.
Wheatfield
• DWI: David J. Ripley, 57, 2717 Moore Road, Ransomville, was charged Saturday with driving while intoxicated and failure to use the designated lane. Deputies observed Ripley’s vehicle cross over the fog line of Ward Road four times. According to the report, patrol detected an odor of alcohol and Ripley had bloodshot, glassy eyes. He failed field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest at 12:53 a.m. Ripley refused to submit to a chemical breath test. He was transported to jail and bail was set at $750 due to a previous DWI conviction.
Lewiston
• CHARGED: Robert D. Schneeweiss, 29, Williamsville, was charged Thursday with criminal possession of controlled substance. At 11:59 p.m., deputies observed a truck parked in a secluded area on Blacknose Spring Road. When Schneeweiss pulled up his shirt to retrieve his ID from his pocket, deputies saw a bulge in his left front pocket and found a pill bottle with 11 pills that which were tentatively identified a Xanax, Flexiril and Rozerem. A glass smoking pipe, a grinder and a small baggie of marihuana were also recovered from another pocket, according to the report.
