Published: May 19, 2008 12:25 am            

BLOTTER: Police reports published May 19

City of Lockport

• STOLEN: Frederick Little Jr., 42, 6773 Rapids Road, Apt. 152, was charged Sunday morning with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. A Niagara Street woman reported May 11 that her wallet was stolen while she was having a cigarette at the Niagara Hotel. The wallet contained her license, benefits card and $35 in cash. She told officers she remembered a man named “Freddie” sitting next to her at the bar. She reportedly identified Little in a photo line-up. Little was arrested early Sunday at Wilson Farms on Park Avenue.

Pendleton

• FIRE: Sheriff’s deputies and the Wendelville Volunteer Fire Company responded to a home on Tonawanda Creek Road about 4:02 p.m. Saturday for a report of a house fire. A resident told deputies he returned home and opened the door to the kitchen to find it filled with heavy smoke. Fire crews extinguished the blaze, which was apparently caused by a malfunctioning coffee maker, the report said. Damage was estimated at $10,000.

Lewiston

• FIGHT: Stephan P. Light, 17, 6123 Lockport Road, Niagara Falls, was charged Thursday with disorderly conduct and second-degree harassment. Light allegedly punched another student outside Niagara-Wheatfield High School on Saunders Settlement Road. He was released on an appearance ticket and is due May 28 in Lewiston Town Court.

• FIGHT: Christopher J. Smith, 16, 2455 Sylvan Place, Niagara Falls, and Dustin H. Waldeck, 16, 5210 Grauer Road, Niagara Falls, were each charged Friday with disorderly conduct. The teens allegedly fought in front of a room at Niagara-Wheatfield High School. Both were released on appearance tickets and are due May 28 in Lewiston Town Court.

• STOLEN CAR: An Onondaga Street man reported early Sunday that between 12:15 and 1:30 a.m., someone stole his purple 1996 Ford Taurus from his driveway. The man said the key to the vehicle was on the driver’s side floorboard. The car is worth $1,500, the report said.

Town of Niagara

• DWI: Jordan R. Lang, 21, 3122 Lower Mountain Road, Sanborn, was charged Saturday night with aggravated driving while intoxicated, failure to keep right, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, improper signal and a seat belt violation after a traffic stop on Niagara Falls Boulevard. Lang allegedly failed several field sobriety tests. He was taken into custody and reportedly registered a 0.18 percent blood alcohol content on a breath test. Lang told deputies the car was not his, but he had taken the keys from a woman at a bar and was driving it home for her. He allegedly said, “I thought I’d do the (expletive) a favor and take her car, so she wouldn’t drive home drunk, and you (expletive) bag me, man! (Expletive) outstanding!” The woman responded to the scene with her mother, who took possession of the car. The woman reportedly said she did not want to press charges for unauthorized use of a vehicle because she thought Lang’s gesture was “sweet.”

        

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