BLOTTER: Police reports published Oct. 5

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October 5, 2007

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City of Lockport

• HARASSMENT: Roberto R. Pagen, 52, 6 Ashley Place, was charged Wednesday afternoon with second-degree harassment. Pagen allegedly approached a postal worker who was delivering mail on Ashley Place and would not leave. The victim said Pagen threatened to kill her several times, causing her to be afraid and annoyed, the report said. Pagen was found by police on Washburn Street and arrested. He is being held in lieu of $100 bail and is due Wednesday in Lockport City Court.

• RESISTING: Brandon M. Jenkins, 23, 264 Garden St., Apt. E, was charged Wednesday evening with second-degree obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. An officer stopped to talk to Jenkins on Genesee Street on Sept. 6 in regards to a parole warrant. Jenkins allegedly started to run. Sheriff’s deputies joined with Lockport police in setting up a perimeter, but Jenkins was not found. He was arrested Wednesday at a home on Harvey Avenue and was held without bail. He is due Wednesday in Lockport City Court.

Town of Lockport

• DRUG POSSESSION: Danielle K. Baker, 19, 330 Plank Road, was charged Tuesday with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a narcotic drug, criminal possession of a narcotic drug with intent to sell and unlawful possession of marijuana. Deputies responded to a report of a suspicious car in a parking lot on Robinson Road. They approached the car and spoke to the occupants and reportedly saw a clear plastic bag containing marijuana in Baker’s purse on the floor of the car. Baker allegedly admitted to having hydrocodone pills, as well. Baker was arrested, and a search of her purse yielded $714 in cash, 186 oxycontin pills, 46 hydrocodone pills and a partial ecstasy pill, the report said. She is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

• DRUG POSSESSION: Anthony Dutcher, 16, 8426 Rochester Road, Gasport, was charged Tuesday afternoon with criminal possession of a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of a child and petit larceny. Dutcher allegedly tried to sell a prescription pill to another student while at the Henrietta Lewis School on Lake Road. He is being held in lieu of $500 bail.

• PETIT LARCENY: A Bedell Road, Grand Island, man told deputies Tuesday night that sometime Monday, someone removed a deadbolt, three door handles, two screen doors and a cabinet door from an apartment he owns on Robinson Road. The value of the items is $420.

• VANDALISM: A Bayview Station, Newfane, woman reported Sunday that while her car was parked on Glendale Drive, someone apparently threw an object at the windshield, causing a spider web crack. Damage is estimated at $700.

Pendleton

• RECOVERED: An employee of the West Canal Marina reported Tuesday that he found a plastic bag floating in the canal near Tonawanda Creek Road. He retrieved it and found it contained several hundred hypodermic needles, a cooking steamer, two round flat weights and a disco ball. The hypodermic needles were stored in two glass wine jugs, the report said.

Newfane

• AUTO THEFT: A Lockport-Olcott Road woman reported Tuesday morning that between Sept. 30 and Monday, someone stole her 1993 Buick Regal from a yard on Hope Lane. The vehicle, worth $500, contained several household tools, also worth $500.

Sanborn

• VANDALISM: Daniel Doyle, 18, 710 Brighton Road, Tonawanda, was charged Wednesday with fourth-degree criminal mischief. An employee of Niagara Academy on Saunders Settlement Road told deputies Doyle damaged a brand new desk during a “fit of anger,” the report said. The desk was valued at $297.30.

Cambria

• LARCENY: An employee of Critelli Builders on Blackman Road reported Wednesday afternoon that overnight, someone broke a lock on a trailer on Green Road and stole a power washer and an attached spray wand, together worth $1,260. A garage door at the site was also damaged.

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