Staff Reports
Niagara Gazette
June 30, 2008 08:27 pm
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WILSON
Man drowns at Wilson pier
Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Wilson Pier about 7:52 a.m. Sunday and found a man face-down in the water wearing no clothing.
A witness told deputies he saw the 44-year-old resident of a nearby Ontario Street apartment on the pier in a wheelchair, wearing a sheet, about 7 a.m.
A short while later, the witness said he saw the wheelchair on the pier, but the man was nowhere in sight. When he looked in the water, he saw the man submerged and called for help.
Deputies went to the man’s apartment and found the door open and medication scattered about. A neighbor told deputies the man had been suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.
TOWN OF LOCKPORTRider thrown from horse
A horse that was spooked by a passing car horn threw its rider Friday afternoon, sending the man to Erie County Medical Center for treatment of head and neck injuries.
Sheriff’s deputies said Stanley Brooke, 47, of Eden, was riding a horse on Bartz Road about 1:23 p.m. when a vehicle drove by and beeped its horn. The startled horse threw Brooke backward to the ground.
Niagara Falls
• ARRESTS: Two men were arrested and charged with stealing equipment from the CSX Railroad. Charles Calhoun, 73, 1768 Cudaback Ave., and Mark G. Williams Sr., 47, 445 1/2 Elmwood Ave., were each charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, third-degree criminal trespass and reckless endangerment. Calhoun was also issued six traffic violation citations. The pair were spotted by a Falls firefighter driving a pickup truck on CSX railroad tracks at 24th and Allen streets at 12:30 p.m. Monday. When the firefighter yelled at them, Calhoun and Williams pulled off the tracks and drove off. Police stopped them and found 10 tie plates, one switch plate, 20 railroad spikes and a pick hammer in the bed of the pickup truck.
• THEFT: Police are investigating a theft from a construction trailer at Packard Court over the weekend. An employee of a construction company told police that sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 8:45 a.m. Monday someone broke the padlocks off a POD storage unit in the parking lot of the Packard Court Community Center. The victim said a generator and a quick cut saw were taken.
• ARREST: A North Tonawanda man was arrested on drunken driving charges. Joseph A. Baker, 25, 1086 Niagara Falls Blvd., Apt. C, was charged with driving while intoxicated and unsafe lane change. Witnesses said they saw a pickup truck driven by Baker jump a curb in the 8300 block of Buffalo Avenue at 10:50 p.m. Sunday and hit an apartment building. Baker told police, “I’m drunk. I’m juiced,” but refused to take a Breathalyzer test, the report said.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested for refusing to leave the scene of a fight about 2 a.m. Monday. James E. McDonald, 19, 417 Niagara St., Apt. 1, was charged with second-degree obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct. Officers said McDonald refused to leave the 400 block of 16th Street and then created a disturbance by yelling and swearing loudly.
Ransomville
• EXPOSURE: Terry M. Norcross, 62, 3509 Ransomville Road, was charged Monday morning with exposure of a person. Norcross, a resident at Heritage Manor, exposed himself to a personal care aide at the facility, according to the sheriff’s deputies. He was released on an appearance ticket and is due July 8 in Porter Town Court.
Bergholz
• HARASSMENT: A Niagara Falls man told deputies he was attending a stag party at the Bergholz Fire Hall when a man walked up behind him and asked if he was a teacher and if he remembered him. The victim said the man then punched him in the back of the head, in the face and in the neck. The man pulled the victim off his chair and onto the ground. Others broke up the fight, and the man left, the report said. The victim refused medical treatment at the scene and gave his statement to deputies.
City of Lockport
• HARASSMENT: Isaiah L. Lopez, 16, 437 East Ave., was charged Sunday night with second-degree harassment. Lopez allegedly threw a phone at a woman at his home. He was held in lieu of $100 bail.
• ALCOHOL: Brian L. Maines, 21, 81 Irving St., was charged Sunday night with first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child. Officers responded to Lock Street for a report of people throwing beer bottles into the street. Maines and another man were reportedly sitting on a porch with several open bottles of beer. Maines alegedly told officers he had bought the beer and given it to a 16-year-old. The 16-year-old had a positive breath screening for alcohol. Maines was held in lieu of $100 bail and is due Wednesday in Lockport City Court.
• MENACING: Jermaine R. Webster, 28, 101 Vine St., lower, was charged early Monday with second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal mischief. Webster was allegedly involved in a fight Sunday at the UAW Hall and allegedly swung at a man with a knife. He was arrested on Prentice Street about 12:35 a.m. Monday.
Town of Lockport
• LARCENY: The owner of Four Seasons Mobile Home Service reported Friday afternoon that someone stole an envelope containing cash for the business payroll. The envelope, which contained $930, had been on the top of the man’s desk.
Royalton
• LARCENY: A Mill Road man reported Sunday that someone stole a truck belonging to his tree-cutting business from a site on Dale Road. The 1989 Ford flatbed truck is worth about $6,500.
Barker
• RESISTING: Lenore E. Fletcher, 54, 207 Glenwood Ave., Medina, was charged early Monday with resisting arrest and second-degree obstructing governmental administration. Deputies responded to Coleman Road about 4:24 a.m. for a report of an intoxicated woman by the side of the road and found Fletcher, who told them her name was “Dory.” The Barker Fire Department had responded to check Fletcher for injuries, but she was uncooperative, the report said. Fletcher reportedly said she would rather walk home than have deputies give her a ride. When deputies offered to drive her to the county line, where she would then be taken home by Medina police she allegedly said, “No, we are done here,” the report said. After being told she was under arrest, Fletcher allegedly tried to pull her arms away and walk away from deputies. She was held in lieu of $500 bail and is due Thursday in Somerset Town Court.
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