Niagara Falls
• CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: A Niagara Falls Boulevard hotel owner told police at 10 p.m. Friday that $1,170 damage was done to a room. Damages include: two smashed lamps; saturated carpets in the room and hallway from the tub left running; broken TV; and dresser drawers were destroyed.
• ARMED ROBBERY: At 2 a.m. Saturday, two victims reported being robbed at gunpoint. The victims told police they were walking to a Main Street bar from a friend’s house when two males passed them. The victims said they ignored the suspects, but as the victims approached Depot Avenue, the suspects ran up to them and demanded their money and possessions. The victims gave the suspects two cell phones, $90 in cash and ATM and credit cards.
• DISORDERLY CONDUCT: At 2:50 a.m. Saturday, police responded to the 1400 block of Main Street for a shots fired call. As officers arrived, they saw about 100 to 150 people wandering the streets with numerous fights going on. Officers dispersed the crowd three times. Gregory Bernard Betterson, 23, 1891 Niagara Ave., was charged with disorderly conduct because he wouldn’t leave the area. Later in the morning, police were called to Niagara Falls Memorial’s emergency room for a gunshot victim, who said he was shot in the 1400 block of Main Street. The victim refused to answer police questions.
• PETIT LARCENY: Elizabeth M. Sledge, 41, 515 Ninth St., was charged with trespassing and petit larceny at 10 p.m. Friday. Sledge is accused of taking $9.26 in merchandise from a store in the 1000 block of Portage Road. She was barred from the store because of a previous incident.
• PETIT LARCENY: At 10 p.m. Friday, police were called to a Niagara Falls Boulevard liquor store for a shoplifting incident. Joshua Charles Justus, 21, 1618 Niagara Falls Blvd., was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of a narcotic. Store personnel observed Justus take two miniature bottles of rum and place them in his pocket without paying for them and leaving the store. The rum was valued at $2. While searching Justus, police found one suboxone tablet. As police were searching the vehicle Justus was a passenger in, they found marijuana. The driver, Thomas N. Mulholland, 21, 1 Spina Ave., was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.
