From the blotter / Niagara County police calls, May 29 to June 3 May 29
• Cherilyn D. Evert, 39, of Ferry Avenue, Niagara Falls, was charged with driving while intoxicated and improper lane usage after police stopped her car in the 1900 block of Cudaback Avenue just before 3 a. m., Niagara Falls police said. They said Evert was swerving about the roadway prior to being pulled over.
• A Cayuga Drive woman contacted Niagara Falls police after discovering that the 38th Street residence of her late brother had been burglarized. Stolen from the backyard of the home were five decorative barrels, a pair of 21-speed bicycles, a gas can and an aluminum dolly.
• Two people were arrested after they blocked traffic in a dangerous fashion at the foot of a hill on Niagara Falls Boulevard, Niagara Falls police said. Officers said a male passenger in a car argued with the female driver and then forced her out of the vehicle during a heavy downpour of rain, creating a hazardous situation for oncoming traffic. Charged with second-degree reckless endangerment was Lusher B. Wallace, 40, of Niagara Street. Also arrested on the same charge was the driver, 38-year-old Lashawn C. Jackson, also of Niagara Street.
May 30
• A Fairfield Avenue woman reported that the registration card and owner’s manual were stolen out of her car sometime overnight, Niagara Falls police said.
• Rashekeh D. Hilson, 32, was arrested at 3:15 a. m. at Park Place and Main Street, Niagara Falls police said. The 16th Street resident was charged with driving while intoxicated, making an unsafe lane change, passing a red light and consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle. Police said she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent. A back-seat passenger was passed out and was taken to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center after officers were unable to wake her.
• Niagara Falls police were called to the 2400 block of Pierce Avenue at about 1 a. m. for a report of a woman lying partly in the street. The 33-year-old, who lived nearby, told police she had been pushed out of a moving car. Officers said she was intoxicated and incoherent and her story could not be corroborated.
June 1
• James M. Fritton, 17, of Hess Road, Appleton, was charged by sheriff’s deputies with assault and stalking at 9:30 p. m. on Lake Road in Olcott after a man said he had been assaulted. The man said he has had ongoing problems with Fritton and that Fritton had followed him from Barker to Newfane. He said that when he pulled over, Fritton started to fight with him and slammed his face into the ground, according to reports.
• A 56-year-old city man told Niagara Falls police that someone took $124 that he had hidden in the bottom of a trash can where he keeps his dirty clothes in the laundry room. The man told police that he found his clothes on the floor and the money was gone.
• An employee of the Niagara County Federal Credit Union, 900 Main St., Niagara Falls, told city police that someone shot a BB through a bulletproof window overnight, causing it to break. Damage was listed at $12,000. Video footage is being reviewed, police said.
June 2
• Derrick D. Hilson, 27, of Ninth Street, Niagara Falls, was charged with felony third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance by Niagara Falls police at 8:28 a. m. in the 3400 block of Ninth Street. Narcotics detectives executed a search and said they found a rifle loaded with four live rounds, a box of rifle rounds, a digital scale, five white pills, sandwich bags and marijuana.
• Mary E. Pelikan, 39, of Main Street, Lockport, was charged at 7:30 p. m. with third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child by Lockport police following a domestic argument in her home. Police said a 13-year-old said the woman punched her in the face several times with a closed fist following an argument over the television. The girl said the woman also had used drugs in front of her. Fire rescue was called to the scene.
• A Newfane man told Lockport police he loaned his $24,000 pickup to a man in exchange for crack cocaine a day ago but said it had not been returned. He said he had also left his golf clubs in the vehicle. Niagara Falls police arrested three men in connection with the theft at 12:27 p. m. in the 500 block of 16th Street. The driver, Robert L. Hilson, 18, of 24th Street, was charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and being an unlicensed driver. Also charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and possession of marijuana were Melvin Calhoun, 20, of 12th Street, and Terrell D. Thomas, 18, of Spruce Avenue, police reported.
June 3
• Lockport police charged Branden
D. Menzel, 26, of VanBuren Street, at 2:30 a. m. with driving while intoxicated, unsafe lane change and unsafe backing. Menzel was seen by police driving backwards on Exchange Street for one to two feet, police said, and he came very close to hitting the guardrail on the Exchange Street bridge. Police said he went into the opposite lane before turning onto VanBuren Street and was stopped and charged.
• Edward K. Washburn, 30, of South Transit Street, Lockport, was charged with second-degree possession of marijuana by Lockport police after the Niagara County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at his home and found and seized a pound of marijuana and $4,975, according to reports.
• Damien D. Speck, 22, of Niagara Street, Lockport, was charged by Lockport police with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and an equipment violation after police found large amounts of blue smoke coming out of the vehicle’s exhaust. Speck was found to have a number of masking agents in the vehicle, such as dryer sheets in the vents and air freshener, police said. Officers said they asked to search the vehicle and found five pills wrapped in cellophane that Speck said were hydrocodone and Valium.
• Following a collision at the 56th Street bridge at Niagara Falls Boulevard just after 1 p. m., Niagara Falls police charged Gregory R. Musolino, 46, of Danube Avenue, with following too closely and driving while intoxicated. Police said Musolino refused a chemical test but appeared intoxicated.
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