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Man stabbed on Orleans Avenue

A stabbing suspect called Falls police to an Orleans Avenue home about 8:30 p.m. Friday where he told them he stabbed a man four times after they got into an argument.

When police arrived, the victim was sitting outside with a neighbor trying to stem the flow of blood from a stab wound in his back. The victim was told not to speak to conserve his energy until an ambulance arrived. The neighbor said the victim had come out of nearby home in the 3000 block of Orleans Avenue yelling he had been stabbed, the suspect right behind him with a cell phone, calling 911.

The suspect, Robert S. Reidy, 23, West Seneca, told police he had gotten into an argument with the man and attacked him with a kitchen knife. He told cops, “I don’t know what came over me.” Reidy was charged with first-degree assault.

Doctors at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center reported that the victim had suffered a deep laceration to the middle of his back, just missing his spine, a small laceration in his right shoulder and two deep lacerations in his left arm. He was eventually transported to Erie County Medical Center for further treatment.



Toddler found wandering Friday

Two Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers coming to the aid of patrol units chasing a suspect in the 400 block of 18th Street about 11:15 p.m. Friday night nearly hit a 22-month-old child after it wandered onto 17th Street from between two parked cars.

A RAC officer said he slammed on the brakes and missed the child by inches. He said the toddler was wearing a dirty diaper and a T-shirt and was crying “mama” repeatedly.

Seeing no adults in the area, police called off the chase and began looking for the child’s home, going door-to-door in the neighborhood.  

A neighbor eventually pointed cops to a 17th Street apartment. Officers arrived to find the front door wide open and a woman sleeping on the couch. After about two minutes, the report said, officers were able to wake the woman, who told them the child lived there but she didn’t know where its mother was.

About five minutes after police arrived, the child’s 19-year-old mother arrived home. She told police she had run to a friend’s house to pick up her purse and was only gone about 25 minutes. Olivia L. Cunningham, 433 17th St., Apt. 2, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.



Not quite

a clean getaway

A Falls police officer on patrol in the area of 11th Street and Ontario Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Saturday came across an accident involving two cars.

While approaching the accident, the officer said one of the cars, an ’05 Saturn, backed away from the crash and began driving backward down 11th Street in the wrong lane. The car turned onto Niagara Avenue, still going backward, and began driving away, until the driver lost control and hit a power pole.

The driver, Carlos N. Williams, 32, 2721 10th St., then got out of the car and tried running away but was caught by police a short distance away.

Officers said Williams appeared intoxicated but refused to take field sobriety tests.

The driver of the other car said while waiting at a red light, Williams rear-ended him.

Williams was charged with DWI, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, resisting arrest, reckless driving, unsafe backing, leaving the scene of an accident and several other charges.

Niagara Falls

• CHARGED: Salvatore W. Lobianco, 33, 2004 Walnut Ave., upper, was charged with littering and disorderly conduct about 4 a.m. Saturday, according to Falls police. An officer spotted Lobianco throw a glass bottle from a moving car on Niagara Falls Boulevard near 73rd Street. After stopping the car, Lobianco, a passenger, became belligerent and began swearing at officers, the report said.

• CHARGED: Stephanie Diaz, 22, Buffalo, was charged with disorderly conduct about 6 a.m. Saturday, according to Falls police. Officers investigating a domestic incident near the valet drop off at Seneca Niagara Casino said Diaz became abusive and started swearing at them when they told her video surveillance showed she was the aggressor in the incident. Police asked her repeatedly to calm down and stop swearing but Diaz continued, the report said, all in front of her 2-year-old daughter.

• CHARGED: Aimee E. Hammill, 25, 2949 Ontario Ave., lower, was charged with aggravated DWI and driving without headlights about 4 a.m. Saturday, according to Falls police. Hammill was stopped after police noticed her driving down Pine Avenue with her headlights off. Officers said she appeared intoxicated and failed field sobriety tests. A Datamaster test determined her blood alcohol content to be 0.18 percent.

• CHARGED: Joseph A. Daniels, 57, 413 18th St., Apt. 2, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest and first-degree loitering about 11:15 p.m. Friday, according to Falls cops. After being spotted by Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers making a hand-to-hand transaction in an alley off of the 1900 block of Ferry Avenue, Daniels tried to run but was knocked to the ground by an officer and taken into custody. A baggie he had thrown away while running from police contained a substance that field-tested positive for cocaine, the report said. The second man got away.

• CHARGED: Michelle D. Sams, 28, 312 25th St., Apt. 2, was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct about 3:15 a.m. Saturday, according to Falls police. A Roving Anti-Crime Unit officer on patrol came across two women wrestling on the ground in the 400 block of Second Street. The officer said Sams was on top of the other woman, who was trying to get away, hitting her. After pulling Sams off the woman, the officer said Sams began struggling with officers and refused to comply with their orders. An officer eventually used a Taser on Sams to subdue her. Officers noted when Sams was brought into police headquarters she was uncooperative and began fighting with police again. She was eventually placed in a padded cell for the night.

Wheatfield

• ASSAULT: A 21-year-old North Tonawanda woman reported she was assaulted on Ward Road about 5 p.m. on Thursday. The victim stated she was punched in the chest by an unknown person. She was traveling northbound on Ward Road and four motorcycles were behind her. The cyclists started to honk their horns, made obscene gestures and yelled at her. Two of the cyclists rode up on either side of her car and she pulled into Wilson Farms. The cyclists pulled in the parking lot behind her and one of the riders punched her several times in her chest. A man grabbed her keys out of her ignition and all four drove off. She found her keys in the intersection of Ward Road and Niagara Falls Boulevard. The victim suffered redness to her chest area, but refused medical treatment. She said the man that struck her was approximately 275 pounds.

Porter

• MARIJUANA PLANTS: A Dickersonville Road man reported finding suspected marijuana plants on his 11-acre property Thursday. Deputies met with the property owner who led them to the spot, about 500 feet from his residence. The plants had a green fence around them and were planted in potting soil.