Published: April 16, 2008 01:14 am            

BLOTTER: Police reports published April 16

City of Lockport

• HARASSMENT: Jerome H. Young Jr., 59 Independence Drive, Apt. 1, was charged Monday afternoon with third-degree menacing and second-degree harassment. An Independence Drive woman told police she argued with Young, her ex-boyfriend. During the argument, Young allegedly threw items around the bedroom and at the woman, who said she fled downstairs. Young allegedly followed the woman downstairs, yelling and screaming, and grabbed her and threw her to the floor. As the woman was falling, she reportedly hit an iron kitchen rack on the counter. Young was held without bail and is due today in Lockport City Court.

• VANDALISM: Antoine A. Ewing, 35, 114 West Ave., Apt. 2, was charged Monday evening with third-degree criminal mischief. Ewing allegedly threw a rock at a car on Genesee Street on Saturday, causing $1,000 in damages. The victim reportedly identified Ewing out of a photo array. Ewing is due today in Lockport City Court.

• DRUGS: Mitchell L. Whelan, 17, 11 Treehaven Drive, was charged Monday night with unlawful possession of marijuana. Officers stopped to investigate a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of the Railyard Skate Park on Corinthia Street. As they approached the car, officers could smell marijuana, the report said. The occupants denied having marijuana, but a check of the area yielded a brown cigar, containing marijuana, under the passenger-side door. Whelan, a passenger, allegedly admitted the marijuana was his. He was is due April 22 in Lockport City Court.

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• BURGLARY: A Dale Road woman reported Monday that her son went out to the shed to get his bike and found the bike was missing and a door on the shed was damaged. The woman said she hadn’t been in the shed since December.

Another bike was missing, as well as two chain saws. The stolen items are worth $751. Someone also had damaged four windows on a sauna house. Damage was estimated at $600.

• BURGLARY: An Orchard Street woman reported Friday someone entered her home through a kitchen window and stole two bottles of prescription pills from her bedroom. A total of 210 hydrocodone and oxycontin pills were stolen, the report said.

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• LARCENY: A student at Niagara-Wheatfield on Saunders Settlement Road reported April 9 that someone stole $16 in cash, a pair of silver and gray Nike shoes and a silver iPod Nano from a locker in the junior varsity locker room. The items are worth $266.

        

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