Published: August 20, 2008 01:04 am            

BLOTTER: Police reports published Aug. 20

Town of Lockport

• FIRE: Deputies and fire crews from Rapids and South Lockport responded to a Locust Street Extension home about 10:53 p.m. Monday after a fire reportedly broke out in the basement. A resident told deputies she smelled smoke in the basement, and when she and her husband went downstairs, they saw a fire near the base of their clothes dryer. The resident began to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher before crews arrived. The damage was contained to the dryer, the report said.

• LARCENY: A Birchwood Drive man reported Monday that someone threw a rock into his passenger-side car window, breaking it. The man’s wallet was stolen from his front passenger seat. The wallet contained $23 in cash, a debit card and the man’s driver’s license. Damage to the window was estimated at $100, the report said.

• LARCENY: A Washington Avenue, Wilson, man reported Monday that he used the ATM at NOCO on South Transit Road about 9 a.m. Friday and accidentally left his ATM card on top of the machine. The man said he went back to NOCO and retrieved the card, which someone had turned in to the clerk. Before the card was turned in, someone charged $100 in gas on it, the report said.

Newfane

• LARCENY: A Charlotteville Road woman reported Monday afternoon that sometime since Aug. 9, someone stole a power washer from her porch and the lawn mower from behind her shed. The items are worth about $1,500, the report said.

Wheatfield

• CAR FIRE: Deputies and crews from the Adams Fire Department responded to a Schultz Road home Sunday night for a report of a car on fire in a driveway. The 1968 Dodge Charger was fully engulfed in flames, the report said. The owner said he had pushed the car out of the garage and had not started it in at least a week. The Niagara County Origin and Cause team responded and determined the fire to be of a suspicious nature. An employee of a nearby business reportedly said he’d seen three teenage boys in the area shortly before the fire broke out.

        

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