Published: May 11, 2008 10:46 pm            

BLOTTER: Police reports published May 12

Brawls break out on Third Street

Falls police used pepper spray to control several brawls that broke out in the Third Street entertainment district early Sunday morning.

Four people were arrested after incidents involving patrons at Club New York, Braggs Tavern and Uncs Tavern.

At one point, outnumbered officers said partiers began throwing bottles at them.

Around 1 a.m., officers arrested Floyd C. Crittenden, 25, 13 F Packard Court, and charged him with third-degree assault, second-degree harassment, fourth-degree grand larceny and fourth-degree criminal mischief.

Officers said a woman told them that she and Crittenden had argued in Club New York and then went outside. The woman said Crittenden attacked her by choking her and punching her in the head and then broke her cell phone.

Crittenden ran from police, but was caught in the alley by Uncs Tavern.

As the bars approached closing time, between 2:45 and 3:15 a.m., officers said trouble erupted at both Club New York and Braggs.

Rhoshe Lamelle Jackson, 25, 609 18th St., was charged with disorderly conduct after he was involved in a fight outside Club New York. A short time later, police took William G. Carter, 27,421 Rainbow Blvd., into custody outside the nightclub in the 500 block of Third Street and charged him with disorderly conduct.

Carter had been told to leave the area after the earlier fight and then returned and created a disturbance.

Police also arrested Tavar Say-Quan Anderson, 23, 436 Seventh St. Apt. 1-2, and charged him with disorderly conduct. Officers said Anderson was involved in a fight in front of Braggs Tavern, in the 200 block of Ferry Avenue, and refused to leave the area.

During the bottle throwing, police said the windshield of a car being used by former Niagara Falls High School and now Syracuse University basketball star Jonny Flynn was smashed. The car was parked outside of Braggs at the time of the incident.

There was no indication from police of whether Flynn, who is only 19, was in the bars or involved in any of the melees.

Niagara Falls

• ASSAULT: Police are looking for suspects in an assault in the area of 19th Street and Walnut Avenue. A 24-year-old man was stabbed twice after being attacked by five other men at 3:30 a.m. Sunday.

• ARRESTS: Two people face drug charges after a traffic stop late Saturday night. Angela Elizabeth Printup, 27, 5380 Chew Road, Lewiston, and Jason James Huck, 29,2389 Upper Mountain Road, Sanborn, are both charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers said they stopped a vehicle driven by Printup, in the 2400 block of Niagara Street at 11:45 p.m. Saturday, after watching Huck stop at a known drug house on 19th Street. RAC officers recovered a little more than one half gram of powdered cocaine from inside the vehicle.

• FIRE: Falls firefighters responded to a call at Cocktail Bob’s, 1974 Cudaback Avenue, at 11 p.m. Saturday. They extinguished a small fire that started in the living room of a second floor apartment. Police said there was no fire damage to the bar.

• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary in the 1700 block of Welch Avenue. A 25-year-old woman told officers that sometime between 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday, someone broke into her home by forcing open a side door. The victim said 100 DVDs, 40 CDs and five baseball caps were taken.

        

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