Published: April 23, 2008 10:05 pm            

BLOTTER: Police reports published April 24

NIAGARA FALLS

Ammo found in garbage can

Modern Disposal workers collecting trash on the 600 block of 70th Street called police after finding several spent and live rounds of ammunition in a garbage can.

The workers said they noticed the ammo after dumping trash cans into the garbage truck and were fortunate they hadn’t activated the truck’s compressor, which could have detonated the live rounds.

Police tried to make contact with the garbage can’s owner, but he was not at home at the time of the report.



Niagara Falls

• ARRESTS: Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers arrested two people on unrelated charges while patrolling the city’s South End in an unmarked car Tuesday night.

Rafael C. Rodrigues, 22, 1506 Hyde Park Blvd., Apt. 2, was charged with exposure of a person after he was caught urinating near a convenience store at 19th Street and Walnut Avenue.

Robby L. Ellmor, 40, 472 19th St., was charged with restricted use of alcohol after being caught walking down the 400 block of 19th Street with an open container LaBatts Ice beer.

• BURGLARY: Jason T. Johnson, 41, 484 19th St., Apt. 3, was charged with second-degree burglary about noon Wednesday after he was caught trying to take copper from a vacant building on Ferry Avenue, according to police.

• INCIDENT: A 27-year-old Buffalo Avenue woman called police Wednesday morning to report someone had taken her ’03 Nissan Altima from her residence. The woman later called police and reported her sister had actually borrowed the car without asking and it had not been stolen.

Wheatfield

• DWI: Nicholas Liberto, 52, 6940 Deborah Lane, Niagara Falls, was charged Tuesday morning with driving while intoxicated and failure to keep right after a 3:12 a.m. traffic stop on Jagow Road, sheriff’s deputies reported. Liberto failed several field sobriety tests and told deputies he’d had three beers, adding, “I should be good to go.” He was taken into custody and registered a 0.10 percent blood alcohol content on a breath test, according to the report.

City of Lockport

• VANDALISM: Andre A. Payne, 38, 255 Genesee St., front, was charged Tuesday evening with third-degree criminal mischief. A Washington Street woman told police that she walked outside her home to smoke a cigarette about 1:50 a.m. Friday and saw someone running by her car, damaging it as they ran. The side of the car had been keyed extensively, the report said. Later that morning, Payne allegedly admitted he was involved in causing the damage. He is being held in lieu of $100 bail.

Town of Lockport

• ENDANGERMENT: Ann Marie Stamborski, 39, 6773 Rapids Road, was charged Sunday night with endangering the welfare of a child. Stamborski allegedly left her young son home for two days without supervision. She was released on an appearance ticket and is due May 6 in Lockport Town Court.

• LARCENY: A Ridgewood Drive man reported Tuesday morning that overnight, someone broke into his motor home, which was parked in the lot at South Towns Storage on Robinson Road. The driver’s-side window was shattered by a rock, the report said. A CD radio, a DVD player and a butcher knife were reported stolen. The items are worth about $360, the report said.

• ID THEFT: A Bear Ridge Road man reported Tuesday that someone opened three credit cards in his name with Sears. Between the three cards, someone had charged $9,365.97, the report said. All three cards were opened April 1, and the man received the bills in the mail April 11.

        

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