Published: April 27, 2008 01:17 am            

BLOTTER: Police reports published April 27, 2008

Three charged

with gang assault

Three Lockport teens were arrested and charged with second-degree gang assault after a fight at

11:30 p.m. Friday on Pine Street that carried over to High and Harvey streets.

Kielind L. Williams, 17, 64 Spalding St., Joshua A. Taylor, 16, 2902 Lockport-Olcott Road, and Philip A. Ruiz Jr., 17, 3902 Lockport-Olcott Road, were all charged.

The police were called to a report of a fight and spoke to the victim who said he had been walking on Pine Street when he was jumped by unknown parties. He walked to a friend’s house, then they walked in the direction of High Street and were confronted by people from the prior incident.

The victim described the five teens as three white males, one Hispanic male and one black male wearing black and carrying sticks and branches. The victim said he was struck by a stick and fell to the ground where he was kicked and punched repeatedly.

One of suspects hit the second victim with a branch. The second victim tried to help the first victim and was struck in the back of the head with a brick and kicked.

The victims ran to Pine Street and were taken to Lockport Memorial Hospital for treatment

Three of the suspects were identified by the first victim as the parties that assaulted him.

City of Lockport

• CHARGED: Shatara S. Brown, 21, 211 Lock St., Apt. 6, was charged with second-degree harassment, obstruction of government administration and resisting arrest. An officer was assisting a victim who was leaving the apartment. According to police, Brown shoved the victim several times. Brown then lunged at the officer, shoving the officer backward. As Brown was told she was under arrest, she pulled away and pushed and scratched police, according to reports.

• CHARGED: Jason McDermott, 33, 38 Evans St., was charged with driving while intoxicated and an equipment violation. McDermott was stopped at 1:15 a.m. Saturday on High Street for a traffic violation. There was the odor of alcohol from the driver’s breath. McDermott failed sobriety tests.

Wheatfield

• AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT: A woman reported someone called her cellular telephone. She was not familiar with the number, so she sent a text message and asked who it was. The suspect returned the text message and wrote that he saw her when she was paying her bill and offered her to work for him for as his personal secretary. He sent eight messages with the last text being that he would pay her $200 just to stare at her. The investigator thought that she might have been contacted by a sexual predator that has a similar mode of operation.

• CHARGED: Kenneth Scott Edwards, 25, 1056 Saunders Settlement Road, Niagara Falls, was charged with possession of a hypodermic instrument. At 4:31 a.m. Friday, officers observed a suspect vehicle traveling east on Niagara Road with items hanging from the inside rear view mirror. Police found seven new hypodermic needles in a plastic bag under the driver's seat. Edwards, the registered owner, reportedly admitted that they were his for a heroin addiction. Cody Miller, 20, 1073 Divide Road, Niagara Falls, who was driving the vehicle was charged with second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation — alcohol related and operating a motor vehicle with obstructed vision. His license was revoked in 2005. Miller and Edwards are scheduled to appear in the Town of Wheatfield court.

        

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