Published: May 05, 2008 08:33 pm            

BLOTTER: Police reports published May 6

ERIE COUNTY

Driver sought in hit-and-run collision

State police are looking for the driver in a hit-and-run collision that left an Akron man in critical condition.

Kyle Regan, 20, of Akron, is currently at Erie County Medical Center after he was struck while lying in the middle of County Road, east of Stahley Road in the Town of Clarence.

About 3:20 a.m., a westbound motorist saw Regan lying in the eastbound lane. Before the motorist was able to turn around to help him, an eastbound vehicle ran him over, the report said.

The vehicle, described as a full-sized truck dark in color, continued eastbound without stopping. There may have been more than one person in the vehicle.

The state police are asking anyone with information to contact the Clarence barracks at 759-6831.



Niagara Falls

• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary at the Kalfas Magnet Elementary School in the 1700 block of Beech Avenue. A school employee told officers that between 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Monday someone broke into the building by prying open a boarded-up window. A student-built sculpture was damaged and $11 was taken.

• THEFT: Officers are looking into a pair of truck break-ins in the 2200 block of Cleveland Avenue. A 53-year-old man told police that someone broke into his Ford F-150 pick-up by smashing the rear window sometime before 3 a.m. Monday and took the vehicle’s stereo system. A 43-year-old man told officers that someone broke into his Ford F-150 pick-up by smashing the rear window sometime before 3 a.m. Monday and took the vehicle’s stereo system, a GPS system, a radar detector and an iPod.

Wilson

• CONTEMPT: Kirk A. Miller, 32, 494 Lake St., was charged Saturday night with second-degree criminal contempt. An Autumnview Drive man told deputies he heard a loud banging on the apartment building below his balcony about 10:30 p.m. He said he went outside and saw Miller standing below the balcony looking up at him. The man said he has an order of protection against Miller. Miller ran away from the building. Miller was released on his own recognizance and is due May 13 in Wilson Town Court.

• LARCENY: A Dorwood Park woman reported Friday that someone stole a lawn mower from her unlocked shed. The lawn mower is worth $75.

Newfane

• ID THEFT: A Main Street woman reported Sunday that someone opened a Capital One credit card using her social security number.

• LARCENY: A Lake Road man reported Monday that sometime since Thursday, someone stole $250 from a wallet on his kitchen table.

• LARCENY: A Lake Road woman reported Sunday that she saw a man steal two gas cans from her unattached garage. The woman said she saw the man take the gas cans from the garage, pour the gas in his gas tank and put the empty cans in the trunk. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, about 6 feet tall, with brown hair and a pony tail, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and jeans. The woman confronted the man, who said he was almost out of gas and thought he had a leak in his gas tank. He then drove away, the report said. The gas was worth about $21.

        

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