Published: October 21, 2009 11:04 pm      

BLOTTER: Police reports published Oct. 22

NIAGARA FALLS

Stabbing reported on C Street

Falls police were called to C Street about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday for a fight involving a man and a woman.

When they arrived, officers said they saw a woman run into a house and came upon a 21-year-old man holding the back of his head. The man said he had been stabbed several times by a woman.

After interviewing witnesses, police said an argument had escalated with the stabbing victim shoving the woman’s son after being hit. The woman, Amanda L. Cafarella, 28, 13 C St., then grabbed two knives and began chasing the victim, stabbing him three times in the street.

After being charged, police said Cafarella told them, “He struck my son. What was I supposed to do? I was just protecting him.”

The man, who police said was uncooperative and intoxicated, was taken to a local hospital where a nurse said he had a 3-inch cut, 2 inches deep on the back of his neck, a cut to his left arm pit and a small puncture on the right side of his back.



Lost and found on eBay

A 63-year-old Ontario man told police Wednesday he bought four rare, out-of-print books on eBay in January and had them sent to a post office box at the LaSalle post office on Niagara Falls Boulevard.

The man said Wednesday he never got the books, which he paid $47 for. Staff at the post office said the package was scanned in on Jan. 15 and placed in the post office box.

The victim said the books are now back up on eBay and after doing a little research, he discovered they’re being sold by another Canadian man who has the post office box right next to his at the LaSalle post office. The matter is being investigated.



A debit card don’t

A Ferry Avenue woman told police Wednesday she recently gave her debit card and PIN number to a man to check on her balance. The man returned the card that day.

On Wednesday the woman said she noticed her card missing and contacted the bank who told her the $551 that had been in the account was gone.



Niagara Falls

• CHARGED: Police charged two people after a traffic stop on Independence Avenue Wednesday morning. An officer said he stopped a ’99 Lincoln Navigator because it was traveling at a high rate of speed and had a shattered rear window. Once stopped, it was determined the driver, Melissa H. Lamar, 27, 2251 Independence Ave., had a suspended driver’s license. She was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation and driving without insurance. Police found two bottles of St. Ide’s malt liquor under the passenger’s seat. Roland T. White, 36, 5200 Green Road, Lewiston, was charged with restricted use of alcohol.

• CHARGED: Ivan A. Brinson, 18, 919 Ferry Ave., lower, was charged with second-degree criminal impersonation about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to Falls police. Roving Anti-Crime Unit officers on patrol in the South End came across a group of about 10 men, some of whom were standing in the road blocking traffic. The group scattered when they saw the police but officers were able to stop Brinson and another man. Brinson originally gave police his brother’s name due to the fact he was wanted on a warrant, the report said.

• CHARGED: Cecil J. Mulkey Jr., 18, 23C Jordan Gardens, and James F. Ashley, 20, 731 Eighth St., were each charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Falls police. Police stopped the car Mulkey and Ashley were driving in after smelling marijuana as it drove by and because Mulkey, the driver, failed to signal a turn.

• CHARGED: Alfred J. Maye, 17, 455 23 St., was charged with disorderly conduct about 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to Falls police. Officers called to a large fight on Tennessee Avenue found Maye wielding a tree branch as a weapon.

• INCIDENT: The safety director of Niagara Coach called police Wednesday afternoon after receiving a threatening call from the parent of a student disciplined on a bus. The parent said her child was grabbed and shoved to the front of the bus after a fight. The parent said they were coming to the bus yard with several other people “to have it out.” Officers spoke with the bus driver who detailed the incident and waited around for the angry parent to show up but no one ever did, the report said.

• BURGLARY: A 37-year-old Lockport Street woman told police a neighbor saw a strange woman enter her home through a window about 9 a.m. Wednesday. The victim said she was at a dentist appointment and when she returned home her benefits card and $75 was missing. The neighbor said the woman, wearing a black hoodie and black Baby Phat jacket with a white cat on it, yelled the occupants name a few times from the front porch before climbing through an unlocked window.

• BURGLARY: A resident of a 25th Street home told police when he came home from school about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday he saw a man he knew and another man running from the house with white garbage bags filled with items from the home. In all, $200 in clothing and $200 in sneakers were taken.

Town of Lockport

• ASSAULT: The Crisis Intervention Team responded to a complaint at Wyndham Lawn School after the principle contacted the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office about a student who had assaulted a teacher during a biology class. The teacher told deputies Tuesday the student became enraged, picked up a chair and threw it at her, striking her in the back of the neck. The student reportedly continued to throw other items at her, including a flower pot. A police report said deputies arrested the student on charges of criminal mischief with the intent to damage property, third-degree menacing and second-degree reckless endangerment.

• INVESTIGATION: A staff member at the Niagara County Jail reported that five blue tablets of Xanax and a pack of Newport cigarettes were reportedly brought into the facility Tuesday with a visitor to one of the inmates. A police report said the contraband was discovered after a post-visit search of the inmate. The evidence was seized and turned over to the sheriff’s department lab for analysis in the ongoing investigation.