From the blotter / Niagara County police calls, Aug. 2 to Aug. 12 Aug. 2
• Jason C. Mesler, 23, of Tonawanda Creek Road, Amherst, was arrested on Niagara Street in Lockport and charged by city police with felony DWI, failure to signal a turn and having an open container of alcohol.
Aug. 3
• Two grass trimmers were among the items stolen from a 22nd Street garage during a break-in that occurred between July 30 and today, Niagara Falls police said. The stolen items were valued at $330.
• A 20th Street woman told Niagara Falls police she was sitting inside her pickup truck outside her home at about 1 a. m. when a former boyfriend walked up and threatened her with a handgun. The man was later seen by police tossing the gun, which turned out to be a BB gun.
• Maureen A. Kane, 45, of Morrow Avenue, Lockport, was charged by city police with misdemeanor DWI, refusing a breath test and running a red light on South Transit Street.
• Martin Galvan-Rodriguez, 42, of Newfane, was charged by Lockport police with misdemeanor DWI and failure to keep right on State Road.
• Jeffrey W. Baum, 45, of Locust Street, Lockport, was charged with second-degree criminal contempt of court after Lockport police accused him of violating a restraining order a woman had obtained against him.
• Jeffrey S. Hewitt, 18, of Niagara Street, Lockport, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful possession of marijuana after his brother was stopped by police, who found an alleged marijuana pipe in his shorts. The boy said Jeffrey had lent him the shorts.
Aug. 4
• Ivette Trinidad, 31, of Chenango Street, Buffalo, and Maurice D. Craig, 18, of South Avenue, Niagara Falls, were arrested on Green Street in Lockport by city police. Craig was charged with illegally tinted windows and unlawful possession of marijuana, while Trinidad was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and having an open container of alcohol. Police said they found a marijuana “blunt” on the car’s center console and a knife and a bag of marijuana in Trinidad’s purse. Police said they also found a knife and a scale with white residue in the pocket of Craig’s pants.
• Robert B. Wojewoda III, 27, of South Transit Road, Lockport, was arrested by Lockport police outside a woman’s apartment on Davison Road and charged with misdemeanor DWI.
Aug. 5
• Nicole L. Rosselli, 20, of Harvey Avenue, Lockport, was charged by Lockport police with third-degree assault, a charge stemming from a fight July 12 at 291 Pine St., in which a Somerset woman charged that Rosselli punched her in the face.
Aug. 7
• A Youngstown man reported that the passenger side of his vehicle had been spray painted between 8 and 9:30 p. m. while it was parked in his driveway on Elm Street. Damage was estimated at $1,000.
• A car stereo was stolen from a 1996 Chevrolet pickup parked in a driveway on the 2900 block of Saunders Settlement Road in Cambria.
Aug. 8
• Sometime between midnight and 6
a. m., an intruder broke into a 100th Street man’s pickup truck, stealing $12 from the vehicle’s center console.
• A VCR, television, DVD player and a gas meter were stolen from a South Avenue home sometime between noon and 4 p. m., police said. Loss was placed at $120.
• An Ontario Avenue woman told police that someone stole a $100 mountain bike from her home between 9 and 9:10 p. m.
• Two men were arrested after police said they spotted them openly passing a marijuana “blunt” at the corner of 13th Street and Whitney Avenue just before 11 p. m. Charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana were Orlando Maddox, 42, of 13th Street, and Charles W. Wingo, 29, of Pierce Avenue.
Aug. 9
• An intoxicated 16-year-old told sheriff’s deputies he was jumped while walking on Sunnyside Drive in Cayuga Village trailer park just before 1 a. m. The victim claimed he was attacked from behind and knocked down, causing cuts to his hands, chest and side. Deputies said they could find no physical evidence of an attack. The victim was taken to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center for treatment.
• A man contracted to trap muskrats at the Hidden Lakes development in the Town of Lockport told sheriff’s deputies that someone stole four of his traps overnight, resulting in a $60 loss.
• A guest stole towels, washcloths, two pillows and a shower curtain after staying at the Red Carpet Inn on Niagara Falls Boulevard overnight, police said. The stolen items were valued at $103.
• James Palmeri, 20, of Buffalo Avenue, was charged with menacing, third-degree criminal mischief and resisting arrest following his 8 p. m. arrest. Police said Palmeri threatened to destroy his apartment and then attacked his landlord. He is also accused of breaking an $800 door at the residence.
• Two brothers were arrested by Lockport police after a fight in front of their Genesee Street home. Lee C. Eisenhauer, 33, and Larry L. Eisenhauer Jr., 36, were charged with disorderly conduct. Police said both men were “highly intoxicated.”
Aug. 10
• Shortly before 1 a. m., three young men were injured while attending a house party on Monroe Avenue, police said. The victims, two of whom were 20-year-olds and another who was 19, were injured when they were struck by beer bottles that had been thrown by party guests. Each was treated in Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
• Michael L. McCartney was arrested at 1:03 a. m. on Hyde Park Boulevard in the Town of Niagara. Sheriff’s deputies charged the 38-year-old McCartney with driving while intoxicated, no seat belt and other violations after the 20th Street resident registered a blood-alcohol content of 0.10 percent.
• Police said a McKoon Avenue woman was attacked by a former boyfriend around 11 a. m. The man broke several crystal glasses in the victim’s home, then slapped her in the face as she held their 1-year-old child.
• A 2002 Kia belonging to a Ninth Street man was broken into sometime prior to 11:30 a. m., police said. The driver’s side window was broken out and $50 was stolen from the center console.
• A Willow Avenue woman told police that she saw a man wearing a diamond earring that had been stolen from her home. The earring was valued at $300.
• Edwin S. Harris, 40, of Webb Street, Lockport, was charged with third-degree assault. Police accused him of punching his girlfriend in the mouth.
• Trevor D. Garcia, 25, of LaGrange Street, Lockport, was arrested by Lockport police on a charge of petit larceny for allegedly stealing a package of Twinkies from the Wilson Farms store on Park Avenue.
Aug. 11
• A Lockport man told a sheriff’s deputy that someone stole a laptop computer from his Bear Ridge Road home between late Sunday afternoon and 1 a. m. today. The computer was valued at $1,200.
• A Wilson man reported that two of his wife’s diamond rings, valued at $4,000 each, had been stolen from their Sunset Island home.
• A Grand Street woman reported to Lockport police that a BB was shot through the back window of her garage over the weekend.
Aug. 12
• Lockport police charged two men with marijuana possession and charged the driver with driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired just after 2:30 a. m. on Lake Avenue. Police said David C. Griffin Jr., 21, of Bayview Station, Newfane, crossed the center line several times on North Clinton Street in the city and failed field sobriety tests. Police said they found marijuana on the driver’s seat and in the rear passenger seat and charged Griffin and his passenger, Kevin E. Fischer, 23, of Hartland Road, Gasport, with unlawful possession of marijuana.
