POLICE REPORTS: Published Jan. 11

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January 11, 2010

Staff Reports The Lockport Union-Sun %26 Journal Mon Jan 11, 2010, 01:44 AM EST

City of Lockport

PETIT LARCENY: Debra J. Rivers, 48, 311 S. Niagara St., was charged Sunday with petit larceny. A caller reported that his watch, valued at $100, was taken by Rivers, and an alleged witness said Rivers had the watch.

PETIT LARCENY: A Lincoln Avenue man reported Saturday that eight cartons of “Smoking Joe” brand cigarettes were taken from his unlocked motor home. The victim said a neighbor alerted him that two juveniles entered the motor home and removed a plastic bag containing the cigarettes.

Newfane

DWI: Charles W. Sherman, no age and address available, was charged Sunday with driving while intoxicated. At 2:30 a.m., the patrol was dispatched to the vicinity of Lockport-Olcott Road at Hatter Road for an intoxicated driver complaint. The complainant was following behind the suspect’s vehicle on Lockport-Olcott Road. According to the complainant, the vehicle passed him at a high rate of speed and swerved into oncoming traffic and proceeded to the shoulder of the road. The patrol saw the vehicle on Ide Road and turn into a driveway on McClew Road. According to the report, Sherman appeared disheveled, had slurred speech, had bloodshot/glassy eyes and had a strong odor of alcoholic on his breath. He failed field sobriety tests and had a blood alcohol content of .13 percent.

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POSSESSION: Tonya M. Ackroyd, 19, 6959 Academy Lane, Lockport, was charged Dec. 23 with unlawful possession of marijuana.

POSSESSION: Tiffany A. Perez, 18, 275 Locust St., Lockport, was charged Dec. 23 with unlawful possession of marijuana.

HARASSMENT: Dawn McDermott, 40, 6493 Dysinger Road, Lockport, was charged Jan. 2 with second-degree harassment.

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Former NFTA cop sentenced
A former Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police officer will spend six years on probation for sending a sexually explicit photo to a teenage girl, a girl he later had a sexual encounter with.
In addition, John W. Ingham will spend 25 weekends in the service of the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office Work Program. Ingham was sentenced Thursday by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch, Sr. Ingham will also register as a sex offender.

February 3, 2012
Rapist gets 15 years
A Middleport man will serve 15 years behind bars for raping a Lockport woman at knifepoint in March.
Harold G. Case, 50, 3470 Carmen Road, was sentenced Thursday in Niagara County Court for first-degree attempted rape, a class C violent felony. Upon completion of the sentence, Case will have 15 years of post release supervision.

January 5, 2012
Plea reached in stabbing case
Hans S. Diefenbach could be looking at 10 years in state prison, after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter Thursday in Niagara County Court.
Diefenbach 47, 70 Genesee St., admitted to stabbing 66-year-old Norma Confer several times with a pair of knives on April 21, leaving one of them in her back. She died in May after being in a coma for
five weeks. Diefenbach was originally charged with first-degree murder.

December 9, 2011
Court actions published Sept. 7, 2011
Schumacher DWI case adjourned to October
A Gasport woman accused of hitting two teens on Dysinger Road on May 26 will return in the beginning of October to Lockport Town Court, after having her case adjourned Tuesday night.
Amy J. Schumacher, 36, 8472 Chestnut Ridge Road, has been charged with Class E felony aggravated vehicular assault and driving while intoxicated.
On May 26, Schumacher was driving on Dysinger Road when she swerved off the road and struck two boys who were walking on the shoulder, according to the report from the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office. According to sheriff’s deputies, Schumacher registered a 0.12 percent blood alcohol content.

September 6, 2011
Two drug dealers are sentenced
September 1, 2011
Police blotter items published August 17, 2011
City of Lockport
HARASSMENT: Matthew J. Brown, 30, 79 Grove Ave., upper apartment, was charged with second-degree harassment Tuesday at police headquarters. Brown is accused of slapping a woman’s face and causing her to fall to the ground Aug. 7, according to the police report. Brown was held in policy custody pending arraignment today in City Court.

August 17, 2011
Pedestrians hit on Dysinger suing town
August 11, 2011
Schumacher due in court Aug. 9
A Gasport woman accused of hitting two teens on Dysinger Road in May will return Aug. 9 to Lockport Town Court.
Amy J. Schumacher, 36, 8472 Chestnut Ridge Road, has been charged with Class E felony aggravated vehicular assault on top of driving while intoxicated.

July 13, 2011
Man pleads not guilty in ring of burglaries
A Wrights Corners man the Niagara County Sheriff referred to as a “one man crime spree” pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon in Niagara County Court.

June 17, 2011
Court actions published June 2, 2011
Alleged drunk driver also texting
The Gasport woman accused of hitting two teen boys on Dysinger Road while she was driving intoxicated last week, was also found to be texting during the time of the accident, according to the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office.

June 1, 2011
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