Published: August 06, 2008 08:48 pm            

BLOTTER: Police reports published Aug. 7

PORTER

Residents report exploding toilet

Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an exploding toilet at the end of a residential street in Porter.

A Creek Lane man told deputies she heard a loud explosion about 9:15 p.m. and found an exploded toilet at the end of the street.

The explosion was heard by another witness about a quarter of a mile away, the report said.

Deputies arrived and found the toilet had been destroyed by an unknown explosive device. Deputies found a roll of metal rods taped together with packing tape, which had signs of burning.

Deputies found shrapnel from the toilet as far away as 330 feet from the blast site.



CITY OF LOCKPORT

Man charged with sexual abuse

Timothy R. Sisler, 44, 107 Park Ave., was charged Tuesday with endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

An investigation began Aug. 1 into allegations Sisler had touched the genital area of a juvenile girl several times while he was babysitting her in his then-residence on Lock Street.

The alleged incidents occurred between September 2006 and January 2007.

Sisler was arrested Tuesday and held without bail.



Niagara Falls

• ASSAULT: Police are looking for three suspects in connection with an assault in the 700 block of 19th Street. A 22-year-old man told officers he was walking in the area at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday when he was attacked by three men and stabbed in the arm.

• BURGLARY: Officers are looking into a burglary in the 1100 block of Whitney Avenue. A property owner told police that sometime between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday someone broke into a home he owns forcing open a door. The victim said a large quantity of copper pipe and a water meter were taken.

• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary in the 2200 block of Ferry Avenue. A property owner told officers that sometime between 10:01 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday someone broke into a home by breaking a basement window. The victim said 150 feet of copper pipe, valued at $3,000, was taken.

Pendleton

• VANDALISM: The county’s public works department reported Wednesday that sometime within the past week someone ripped an electrical conduit off a concrete wall under a bridge on Tonawanda Creek Road. Damage is estimated at $2,000.

Wheatfield

• BURGLARY: An Arnold Drive man reported Tuesday that overnight someone stole a complete set of Calloway golf clubs from his garage. The golf clubs are worth about $1,000. The man said both garage doors had been locked. He told deputies he’d received a call about 12:31 a.m. from an unknown man who said, “I’m the Pillsbury Doughboy and I’m your worst nightmare.” The garage had been burglarized previously on July 7. The man said someone has also thrown eggs at his house.

Lewiston

• DWI: Zechariah M. Vandermeer, 27, 205 N. Water St., was charged Sunday evening with driving while intoxicated, operating a motorcycle with improper plates and operating a motorcycle without registered plates. Deputies responded to the area of Swann Road about 7:22 p.m. to assist Lewiston police with a report of a motorcyclist driving recklessly. Deputies saw Vandermeer on a motorcycle pulling into a driveway on Ridge Road. He told them he’d just purchased the motorcycle that day and it wasn’t registered and he’d placed an ATV plate on the motorcycle. He also told deputies he’d had a few beers at a friend’s house earlier. He registered positive for alcohol on a field-screening breath test, though he passed two field sobriety tests. He was taken into custody and registered a 0.22 percent blood alcohol content on a breath test.

City of Lockport

• DRUGS: Maurice D. Craig, 18, 1635 South Ave., Apt. 2, Niagara Falls, was charged Monday with unlawful possession of marijuana and having tinted windows. Ivette Trinidad, 31, 128 Chenango Drive, Buffalo, was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and an open container violation. Officers responded to a Green Street home for a report of possible drug activity and saw Trinidad sitting in the passenger seat of a car, waiting for Craig, who was on the front porch. Officers circled the block and saw the car driving away. They executed a traffic stop. Trinidad was holding an open beer bottle. Craig said he did not have a license. Officers searched him and found two knives in his pants, along with an electronic scale with white residue. Officers searched the car and found a marijuana cigarette in the center console. Trinidad also had a knife and a baggie of marijuana in her purse. The scale was sent to the county lab for testing.

• LARCENY: James L. Freck, 45, 2715 Lower Mountain Road, Ransomville, was charged Wednesday morning with third-degree grand larceny. Freck stole two large stainless steel mixer covers from a warehouse at Rubberform on Michigan Street, according to police. Freck brought the covers to a scrap yard on Junction Road. The cost for Rubberform to replace the covers is $7,364, the report said. Freck reportedly turned himself in Wednesday.

        

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