Staff Reports
Niagara Gazette
June 29, 2009 07:26 pm
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HARTLAND
Crash sends three people to hospitals
Sheriff’s deputies responded to several 911 calls about 7 p.m. Saturday reporting a two-car crash at Carmen and Seaman roads.
A car headed northbound made a left turn in front of a southbound car, causing a collision, the report said.
A woman in the southbound car was flown by Mercy Flight to Erie County Medical Center. A man in the southbound car was taken to ECMC by Medina Ambulance.
A man in the northbound car was transported to Eastern Niagara Hospital-Lockport by Tri-Town Ambulance. He was charged with failure to yield.
Names are being withheld by deputies.
None of the injuries was life-threatening, the report said.
ONTARIO
Woman’s body found in Lake Ontario Saturday
Niagara Regional Police say they recovered the body of a woman found floating in Lake Ontario at the end of Geneva Street in St. Catharines.
Police responded to the area after receiving a phone call at around 11 a.m. Saturday advising that the body of a woman had been spotted in the water and people had pulled the woman from the water and begun life-saving efforts.
Emergency services personnel were dispatched to the scene, and continued efforts to revive this woman. She was later transported by ambulance to the St. Catharines General Hospital where she died.
Regional Police are not releasing the woman’s identity, at the request of her family. Police say their investigation of the incident is continuing.
Niagara Falls
• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested after a shoplifting incident. Christina L. John, 27, 446 Fifth St., Apt. 3, was charged with petit larceny. John was picked up at a supermarket at 2:40 p.m. Monday in the 7200 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard after she was caught wheeling a shopping cart full of beer out the door.
• THEFT: Police are looking for a suspect in a theft from a business in the 1800 block of Pine Avenue. A store employee told officers that a man entered the business at 9 a.m. Monday and took 13 packages of underwear without paying for them.
• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 1000 block of Niagara Avenue. A 24-year-old woman told police that sometime between 11 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday someone broke into her home by pushing a fan out of a window. The victim said a TV and six DVDs were taken.
Town of Lockport
• LARCENY: A Jennifer Drive woman reported Monday that over the weekend, someone entered her car and stole three bags of groceries, a Tom-Tom GPS and about $6 in change. The items were worth about $236, the report said.
Sanborn
• STOLEN ATV: A Saunders Settlement Road man reported Monday that overnight someone stole a 1997 Yamaha 350 Warrior ATV from the bed of his pickup. The ATV is worth about $1,200, the report said.
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