From the blotter / Niagara County police calls, Oct. 13 to 26
Oct. 13
• A 48-year-old Ransomville woman told sheriff’s deputies that she was in a bar in Pendleton on Beach Ridge Road and discovered her purse had been stolen from her unlocked vehicle at 10 p. m. She told deputies that she works as an agent for Border Patrol and had a government issued credit card, federal identification card and four personal credit cards, as well as $93 in cash in the purse.
• A 50-year-old Appleton man told sheriff’s deputies that on Oct. 8, he was with a friend while counting his $1,200 paycheck and had three shots of tequila, which made him tired, and he went to sleep. He said he thinks his friend slipped something into his drink. He said when he woke up the cash was gone, as well as several prescription narcotic pills. He said that on Saturday, his food stamp card also was used without his permission at two supermarkets. Total loss was listed at $1,579.
Oct. 14
• Ryan Walker, 22, of 8521 Porter Road, was charged by Town of Niagara police with third-degree assault. A woman told police that Walker punched her in the left side of her face, pushed her head into a wall and put her in a choke hold. Walker was located at his mother’s residence. The woman was treated in Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
Oct. 15
• A 53-year-old Leete Road man told sheriff’s deputies that he was gone for two hours and found that someone had broken out a window to reach inside and unlock the door at his home in the 5500 block. He told deputies that a game system and seven games that were in a pink tote near the door were stolen. Value was $500.
• A Gasport a man told sheriff’s deputies a 42-inch television, valued at $700, was stolen from his Mill Road home. The man told deputies that two months ago, someone broke in and stole money and drugs, but is unsure if this is related.
• Charged with assault for fighting in the Niagara County Jail on June 30 were James J. Arroyo Jr., 20, of 16th Street, Niagara Falls, and Nicholas Cortese, 21, of Woodstock Avenue, Town of Tonawanda. Both were charged and arraigned in front of Lockport Town Justice Raymond Schilling. Bail was set at $2,500 cash or $5,000 bond.
• Raymond P. Townsend, 18, of North Street, Lockport, was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana by sheriff’s deputies just before 1 a. m. on Lake Avenue in Lockport. Deputies said Townsend was ticketed for driving 57 mph in a 45-mph zone and was found with nearly a quarter-pound of marijuana. Also found were two glass smoking pipes.
• A woman told Town of Niagara police that while she was inside Party Time Cafe, someone broke the rear window of her vehicle.
• More than $6,000 worth of guns were reported stolen from a home in the 7200 block of Townline-Wheatfield Road, sheriff’s deputies said.
Oct. 16
• A$57 pair of sneakers were stolen from a Crowne Plaza hotel room earlier this week, Niagara Falls police said.
• Jacob Schul, 18, of Tuscarora Road, Town of Niagara, was charged by town police with second-degree harassment for allegedly pushing his grandfather down the stairs after a brief struggle, according to reports.
• Nancy Stewart, 51, of Lafayette Avenue, Niagara Falls, was charged by Town of Niagara police with petit larceny, accused of shoplifting $128.95 worth of merchandise from Marshalls department store.
• A Sunnyside Drive man told Town of Niagara police that someone stole his 42-inch flat-screen television.
• Eric M. Ridgeway, 32, of Lockport- Olcott Road, Newfane, was charged with driving while intoxicated after sheriff’s deputies received a reckless driver complaint on Lockport-Olcott Road just before 3 a. m. Ridgeway was found driving a red Pontiac with no license plates, deputies reported.
Oct. 17
• Someone forged and cashed five personal checks belonging to a Lindbergh Avenue man for a total of $320, Niagara Falls police reported.
Oct. 18
• Robert H. Demorest Jr., 20, of Lockport- Olcott Road, Burt, was charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to use a designated lane at 12:29 a. m. on Wilson-Burt Road in Newfane. In a related arrest, Demorest also was charged with criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny. Sheriff’s deputies said Bucolo Cold Storage, at 5796 Wilson-Burt Road, reported that overnight someone entered three locked vehicle on the property and stole three fire extinguishers, a first aid kit and a set of truck keys. Videotapes showed that at 12:30 a. m. Demorest, who was later charged with DWI for putting his vehicle in the ditch in front of the storage business, also had the stolen property, deputies said. Demorest said he didn’t know how the items got into his vehicle, according to reports.
Oct. 19
• Carson Kelley, a candidate for highway superintendent in the Town of Royalton, told sheriff’s deputies that he’s had election signs removed over the last two weeks. He said three signs were taken from Blockchurch and Dewhurst roads and four signs were taken from the hamlet of Gasport near Orchard Street and West Avenue. He said another sign was taken from Freeman and Telegraph roads in Middleport. He said that when he ran two years ago, more than 40 of his signs were taken. Kelley also told deputies that as he was walking door to door in the Village of Middleport over the weekend, he had several pieces of his election literature removed from homes in the area.
• Patrick Dugan, 26, of, 99th Street, Niagara Falls, was charged by Town of Niagara police with petit larceny. He is accused of taking change from a vehicle on Richmond Avenue, an area in which other vehicles have been targeted in recent weeks.
• A 19-year-old Wheatfield woman told sheriff’s deputies that a decapitated deer head had been left on her vehicle’s hood, parked in her driveway in the 2700 block of Homeyer Road. The head had its antlers cut from the skull cap and the woman said she was unsure who would have
Oct. 20
• Thefts were reported from locked sheds in the Town of Lockport overnight according to sheriff’s deputies. A man in the 5900 block of Locust Street Extension said someone damaged a lock to gain entry, siphoned his gas from his lawnmower and took his all-terrain vehicle, valued at $3,500. His neighbor said his gas was siphoned from his lawnmower, as well. On the 6200 block of Hamm Road, a padlock was damaged on a shed and a chainsaw with a 20-inch bar, valued at $100, was removed.
• A 34-year-old Lewiston woman told Niagara Falls police that she got a job online and was told to deposit checks in her City of Niagara Falls credit union account. She said she deposited several checks and sent money orders to a woman in Texas. She then received 12 money orders, worth more than $3,400, and sent a portion of the cash to a woman in Minnesota. The credit union told police that the checks were counterfeit.
• Niagara Falls police said a man in the 1800 block of Ontario Avenue said plywood was taken off a broken window overnight to gain entry and a television and DVD player were stolen. A coffee table and china was broken as well, police said. Total loss and damage was estimated at $1,330.
Oct. 21
• A woman in the 3200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, Cambria, told sheriff’s deputies that someone took $550 in cash, which she had hidden in a box in her bedroom closet, and a $300 iPod Touch, which was in her living room.
• An $800 guitar was stolen from the 3900 block of Lockport-Olcott Road in Newfane while the residents were at the hospital in Newfane for several hours, sheriff’s deputies said.
Oct. 22
• A man told Town of Niagara police that while his vehicle was parked on Licata Drive, someone stole his computer.
• Two all-terrain vehicles valued at $4,000 each were reported stolen from a home in the 2100 block of River Road in Wheatfield, sheriff’s deputies reported.
• A woman told Niagara Falls police that a Ninth Street man has been threatening her for the past six months, jumping out of the bushes and dragging her down the street, locking her in the bedroom for several hours, not allowing her to use the bathroom, and getting other women to punch and harass her. The woman said the man is a former boyfriend and they do not live together anymore. She requested that police force him to leave her alone, including at her place of employment.
• Christine L. Lepard, 40, of O’Connor Drive, Lockport, was charged by sheriff’s deputies with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated at 7 p. m. Lepard was arrested at her home after another motorist reported a reckess driver on Beattie Avenue and followed Lepard. Deputies said they found Lepard exiting her vehicle and she “almost fell over as she went to pick up her mail, [which] she had dropped into a bunch of branches.” Deputies said they additionally charged her with criminal possession of a controlled substance after numerous pills were found in a wooden container in her purse.
Oct. 23
• Lockport police charged three city residents with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after the Niagara County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at a home in the 100 block of Elmwood Avenue just after 8 p. m. and found a small amount of cocaine on them. Charged were: Johnnie E. Edmundson, 51, of Cottage Street; Grandville Sanders Jr., 22, of Dysinger Road; and Amy L. Bower, 32, of North Adam Street. The homeowner, David C. Francisco, 48, was charged with second-degree criminal nuisance. Police said they also seized $1,380 in cash.
• An 18-year-old cancer patient told Niagara Falls police that several of her prescription medications were stolen from her Ontario Avenue home while she was hospitalized earlier in the week.
• Michael Adkins, 27, and Carrie Klick, 21, both of Anthony Drive, Town of Niagara, were charged with disorderly conduct and issued appearance tickets, town police said. Anthony Scarfone, 24, Anthony Drive, was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental administration and criminal possession of a controlled substance and issued appearance tickets. Town of Niagara patrols responded to a report of a fight involving people outside of 50 Anthony Drive, in Sabre Park. Park management was trying to break up the fight when patrols arrived. Scarfone became belligerent with patrol and began to advance toward officers, according to reports. He was taken to the police department, where he became unresponsive due to possible narcotic overdose, police said. He was then taken to Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston for evaluation.
• A Niagara Street man told Niagara Falls police that he was robbed twice in the same evening earlier in the week. The man told police that a man knocked on his apartment door about 12:45 a. m. Oct. 20, asking to use the telephone. He stuck his foot in the door until the victim allowed him in. While using the phone, he stole $170 from the victim’s wallet. The same man returned a couple hours later and managed to steal the victim’s wallet. He later used his debit card to make a $65 purchase, police said.
• Sometime overnight, a gas grill valued at $500 was stolen from the back yard of a Chestnut Avenue home, Niagara Falls police said.
• Ulysses R. Jones, 20, of Niagara Falls, was arrested in the 4600 block of Hyde Park Boulevard about 5:30 p. m. in the city. Sought on felony charges, police said Jones tried to keep them from entering by barring a door, and later resisted arrest. He was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration in addition to the unspecified felony charges.
Oct. 24
• State troopers in Lockport charged Veronika Chirakova, 47, of Greenbush Road, Newstead, with driving while intoxicated after a property damage crash on Tonawanda Creek Road in the Town of Lockport.
• Niagara Falls police arrested a 21- year-old man after spotting him clinging to the hood of a car being driven in an alley off Second Street, hitting and kicking the side of the vehicle. Jonathan L. Williams, of Whitney Avenue, was charged with disorderly conduct. Police said he claimed to be chasing after a woman who was leaving with another man.
• An elderly LaSalle-area resident told Niagara Falls police that someone used her credit card number over the previous three weeks to run up $231 in unauthorized purchases. All of the purchases were made in various locations throughout Florida.
Oct 25
• Joal L. Mean, 54, of Saxton Place, Olcott, was charged by Lockport police at 4 a. m. on North Transit and Green streets with driving while intoxicated, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, failure to stop for an emergency vehicle and equipment violations. Police said Mean’s pickup did not have headlights turned on and he would not stop at first for officers who tried to pull him over at North Transit and Niagara streets.
• Cody J. Hetherly, 18, of Sunset Drive, Lockport, turned himself in a warrant for third-degree assault. The victim told police he had been walking on West Caledonia Street on Oct. 23 and Hetherly struck him 4 or 5 times in the head and he was unable to fight back. The victim said the disagreement was over a girl. Police said the victim had a two-inch cut which required stitches.
• Lockport police charged Demetrius Singleton, 35, of Lincoln Avenue with driving while intoxicated and improper lane use at 1:47 a. m. on State Road after he was pulled over and appeared intoxicated.
Oct 26
• A 63-year old Meyer Road, Pendleton woman told sheriff’s deputies that she believes someone entered her home and took a wallet that was on a kitchen counter and contained $24.
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