Published: May 15, 2008 08:24 pm            

BLOTTER: Police reports published May 16

Police seek suspects in 20th Street shooting

Falls police are looking for three suspects in connection with a drive-by shooting on 20th Street.

A 38-year-old man told officers at 4:40 a.m. Thursday he was walking south in the 400 block of 20th Street when a white pickup truck with two men and a woman in it pulled over by him. The man said one of the men then shot at him with a black handgun.

The victim sustained a single gunshot wound to his left leg. He was treated at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center for what was described as a non-life-threatening wound.



Niagara Falls

• ARRESTS: A Falls teenager was arrested on a drug charge. Joseph M. Felvus, 17, 1333 Niagara Ave., was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana. Police said they stopped Felvus at 2:21 a.m. Thursday as he was driving near Pine Avenue and 38th Street because he had objects hanging from his rear view mirror. Felvus had seven small baggies containing marijuana in his possession.

Pendleton

• TRESPASSING: A Beach Ridge Road woman reported Wednesday that she has had an ongoing problem with dirt bikes and ATVs riding on her property. She secured a wooden fence across the access path that enters her property from a trail in the woods. On Wednesday, she found the wire used to secure the fence had been cut and the fence had been rolled back.

• ANIMAL PROBLEM: A Donner Road woman told deputies Tuesday that she was walking with her son in front of an abandoned house on Donner Road when two large geese charged at them. The geese were secured and taken to Lakeview Animal Center.

City of Lockport

• DRUGS: Jedidiah J. Aiken, 22, 27 Carlton Place, Apt. 2, was charged Thursday with unlawful possession of marijuana, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and driving without a valid inspection. Officers responded to Green Street about 9 a.m. for a report from a school crossing guard that a tan vehicle with shiny rims had been driving around the area for an hour or so. Two juveniles told officers the car had gone by them several times, and the driver had the window down as if he was going to say something to them, but he had just driven by, the report said. Officers located the car on Green Street. Aiken, the driver, reportedly told police he was driving around looking for somewhere to hang out. Officers searched the car and reportedly found a bag of marijuana in the center console. Aiken was held in lieu of $250 bail.

• LARCENY: A High Street man reported Thursday that someone stole a 12-foot long steel I-beam, several pieces of angle iron and several steel sign posts from a vacant lot on Walnut Street. The items are worth about $1,200.s

• ASSAULT: Tiffany J. Crawford, 24, 475 Hawley St., was charged Wednesday with third-degree assault and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. Crawford allegedly involved in an argument with two family members on Hawley Street. She allegedly held a family member down on the ground by stepping on her stomach. The family member, who is 18 weeks pregnant, was treated at Inter-Communtiy Memorial Hospital. She reportedly suffered two black eyes, scrapes her her face and scrapes and bruising to her back.

• DWI: Cassie A. Sheehan, 20, 19 Charlotte St., was charged Wednesday night with driving while intoxicated, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and driving with a suspended registration after a traffic stop on Niagara Street. Sheehan allegedly failed several field sobriety tests. She was released on her own recognizance and is due Monday in Lockport City Court.

• DWI: Clarence M. Sechler, 33, 4814 Cottage Road, was charged Thursday morning with DWI, driving with a suspended registration, equipment violations, unlawful possession of marijuana, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and driving while ability impaired by drugs after a traffic stop on Park Avenue. Sechler allegedly admitted to having a bottle of pills in his pocket. Officers searched the car and reportedly found a glass pipe containing marijauana and a plastic baggie containing suspected cocaine. He was held on $100 bail and is due Monday in Lockport City Court.

        

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