BLOTTER: Police reports published March 28

Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

March 27, 2009 09:39 pm

City of Lockport
• LARCENY: Joseph M. Kiszka, 29, of Lockport, was charged Wednesday morning with third-degree grand larceny, first-degree falsifying business records and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing. Kiszka was arrested after an investigation by state police that began Monday.
Town of Lockport
• CONTRABAND: Corrections officers reportedly found possible contraband in a cell at the Niagara County Jail on Thursday night. During a cell search, officers reportedly found a white powder substance under the sink in a cell. The substance was field-tested, but it could not be identified, the report said. The substance was sent to the county lab for testing.
• FRAUD: A Sunset Drive woman reported Thursday that she received a check in the mail from a company called Ocean Originals for $2,946.99, accompanied by a letter instructing her to evaluate the payment system of MoneyGram. The woman was to send money and then fax her findings to a doctor whose name was listed in the letter. The woman called the bank listed on the check, and they told her the check was counterfeit.
• DRUGS: Brandon D. Forsyth, 17, 6594 Dysinger Road, Apt. 13, was charged Thursday afternoon with unlawful possession of marijuana. Deputies responded to Forsyth’s building after an anonymous caller said people in his apartment were smoking marijuana. Deputies responded and found a zip lock baggie on the couch next to Forsyth containing a green substance. Forsyth allegedly said the substance was marijuana and that it was his. He was released on an appearance ticket and is due April 28 in Lockport Town Court.
Newfane
• LARCENY: A Townline Road, Appleton, woman reported Thursday morning that someone stole a radar detector from her unlocked pickup while it was parked outside Sun Orchards on Transit Road. The radar detector is worth about $120, the report said.
Cambria
• VANDALISM: Deputies responded to the Market Place on Saunders Settlement Road about 2:14 a.m. Thursday in response to an alarm and reportedly found the store’s front plate glass window was broken. It was unclear what was used to break the window, the report said. The window was worth about $750, the report said.

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