Published: July 09, 2008 09:30 pm            

BLOTTER: Police reports published July 10

Niagara Falls

• ASSAULT: Police are looking for suspect in connection with an assault in the 400 block of 18th Street. A 33-year-old man told officers he was sitting on his porch at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday when he got into an argument with another man. During the argument, the man said the suspect repeatedly bit him on the forehead, face and fingers.

• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 1100 block of Fairfield Avenue. A 35-year-old woman told police that sometime between 5 and 7 p.m. Friday someone broke into her home by pushing a screen out of a window. The victim said a 20-inch TV, a laptop computer and a cell phone were taken.

• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary at a business in the 7600 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard. An employee told officers he saw a door ajar and was concerned. The owner told police that an alarm at the business went off between 12:58 and 8 a.m. Wednesday. Officers said it appeared that entry was made into the building through the roof. Approximately $1,100 was taken from the business’ office.

• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 500 block of Ferry Avenue. A deli owner told police that sometime between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 6:13 a.m. Wednesday someone broke into his business by taking a grate off a window and then breaking it. The victim said 20 packs of cigarettes, 200 Philly blunts and some Swisher Sweets were taken.

• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested for an attack on another man. Timothy W. Taylor, 42, 2231 Falls St., Apt. 1, was charged with first-degree assault. Police said Taylor attacked a 44-year-old man with a flashlight at 1:50 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of 10th Street. The victim was hospitalized in serious condition with a fractured skull.

Pendleton

• LARCENY: A Meadowbrook Court man reported Monday that overnight someone entered his car and stole a phone charger and a GPS unit, together worth $840.

Porter

• ASSAULT: Deputies responded to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center about 3:30 p.m. Sunday to interview the victim of an apparent assault. A Lewiston man told deputies he had gone to a home on Youngstown-Lockport Road because he was concerned about a depressed friend. The friend’s stepfather punched the man in the face because he did not want him around his stepson. The victim suffered swelling to his lip and cheek area and a deep cut inside his mouth, the report said.

Wheatfield

• DWI: Gregory Robert LaCount, 31, 520 Pine Sun Lane, Virginia Beach, Va., was charged early Wednesday with driving while intoxicated, failure to use designated lane and failure to obey a traffic signal. Deputies were alerted to a possible drunken driver on Niagara Falls Boulevard. As a deputy was responding to the scene, LaCount drove by and crossed the center lane, causing the deputy to change lanes to avoid a collision. Deputies stopped LaCount’s car and noticed a strong smell of alcoholic beverage on his breath, the report said. LaCount passed two field sobriety tests but failed two additional tests. He registered a 0.25 percent blood alcohol content on a breath test.

Newfane

• BURGLARY: A West Creek Road man reported Monday that overnight, someone stole a girls’ 10-speed bicycle and several sets of baseball cards from his garage. The value of the stolen items is about $530, the report said.

Olcott

• BURGLARY: A Lockport-Olcott Road man reported Monday that he arrived home about 3 p.m. and found his overhead garage door open and the main door to the garage was unlocked. He checked the garage and found two bottles of rum and an 18-pack of Coors Light were missing. The alcohol is worth about $67. One of the bottles of rum had been consumed and left behind on a table inside the garage.

• VANDALISM: A West Bluff man reported Wednesday morning that overnight, someone smashed out the window of his 1999 Monte Carlo with a beer bottle. The damage was estimated at $500.

        

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