City of Lockport
• INVESTIGATION: Police responded to a report of a possible burglary on Locust Street at the Youth X-Clusive store on Tuesday. The victim said when he pulled into the parking lot of the store, he noticed several items of clothing with the price tags still on strewn all over the parking lot. Police found the door to the store was kicked in causing, $350 in damage. Police said they have a suspect from the surveillance camera, but the suspect’s name is not being released. Approximately $285 worth of clothing was reported missing. The suspect is facing charges of second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal mischief.
Town of Lockport
• TRESPASSING: On Tuesday, an Oak Lane woman reportedly called the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office at approximately 12:30 a.m. after allegedly seeing two men with flashlights wandering around the side of her house. Deputies responded, checked around the area, but didn’t find anything.
Wheatfield
• LARCENY: At 12:33 p.m. Tuesday, the operations manager for Handling Specialty in Niagara Falls told deputies that $16,661 worth of lifting equipment apparently was removed from shelves at the store during an inventory check June 1.
• BURGLARY: Niagara County sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported burglary Tuesday at the Summit Pharmacy on Niagara Falls Boulevard, Niagara Falls. Deputies found a broken window, but no suspect on location. Officers who watched the security video reportedly saw a man break a window with a brick and go inside the store. “The male made his way from the front of the store to the pharmacy and attempted to gain entry inside the secured pharmacy,” the report said. After the suspect failed to get inside the pharmacy, he left empty-handed, according to the report. The suspect, still at large, is said to have been wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and a mask over his face.
