Suburban police Blotter

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• • A Springfield Drive female reported her children were
  playing in the house with improvised
  flamethrowers.
  
  • A group of children were “performing death-defying acts
  in front of motorists” at Hanley Park.
  
  • A Halstead Avenue resident reported an intoxicated
  neighbor across the street walked over, took
  the children’s toys away, swore at the children and left.
  
  • An 85-year-old woman left her son’s home in Buffalo and
  drove in a reckless manner through
  West Seneca and Cheektowaga. She was found and stopped
  eventually by the Cheektowaga police
  and was returned safely to her home.
  
  • A Countryside Lane man reported that sometime overnight
  someone entered his unlocked vehicle
  and stole several bags of recently purchased school supplies
  totaling $198.77.
  
  • Two women got into a public fight and were throwing
  water bottles at each other in Orchard Park.
  
  • A Winterhall Road man reported finding his car covered in
  ketchup, toilet paper and an “unknown,
  light substance.”
  
  • Patrol responded to Main Street near Davidson Road at 2
  a.m. for a report of three teens lying in
  the middle of the road. The teens were advised.
  
  • Police responded to a Niagara Falls Boulevard pet business
  where an employee reported a $25 bill
  for dog grooming services was not paid.
  
  • An employee of a Main Street grocery store a man opened
  dozens of toothpaste boxes, put the
  tubes into a duffel bag and fled the store.
  
  • A Panama Lane resident reported garbage had been stolen
  from in front of the house for the
  fourth time in eight months.
  
  • Two sisters, ages 22 and 23, were having a loud argument
  over bacon in a Marne Road residence.
  
  • A road rage incident on Walden Avenue led to one
  motorist throwing a bag of ice at another’s
  vehicle.
  
  • A Boston woman reported that she stopped to fill her tire
  at Stadium Mobil and, as she did, put
  her change purse on the top of her car. She then drove
  away, not realizing until hours later that she
  never retrieved the purse from the top of the car. In it were
  her wedding ring, necklace, earrings
  and cash totaling $4,160.
  
  • A Lakeview Avenue woman reported that she’s being
  repeatedly harassed by a tenant at her
  home. When she arrived home that day, the tenant was
  screaming at her and telling her that she
  was going to kill her. The tenant, a man, told her that her
  primary offense is that she walks too
  loudly.
  
  • Patrol responded to Oak Lane for a neighbor dispute. A
  female accused a male
  neighbor of damaging her lawn mower.
  
  • Patrol responded to the Clarence Inn Motel for a report of
  an intoxicated male who was sitting in
  the road in a recliner. The subject and his chair were
  removed from the roadway.
  
  • A McKinley Avenue resident reported that her 100-pound
  white goose lawn ornament was stolen
  from her property.
  
  • A naked female was seen being chased by a male with a
  flashlight on Pine Ridge Road.
  
  • An Edmund Street female requested a checkpoint on her
  house, because her husband would be
  out of town, and “strange things happen when he is gone.”
  
  • A child called 911 from a Kevin Court address reporting
  that the battery on his toy Jeep was going
  dead.
  
  • Deputies responded to Kalayne Lane for a report of a
  larceny. An intoxicated male claimed that
  someone stole his pants and beat him up.
  
  • Patrol confiscated a rock as possible evidence in relation
  to a broken greenhouse window at a
  French Road business.
  
  • More than 300 prescription pills were reported stolen from
  a Harlem Road apartment after it was
  ransacked. Approximately $400 hidden in a Bible was also
  missing.
  
  • A woman was arrested for driving while intoxicated after
  allegedly hitting another vehicle in the
  Mighty Taco drive-thru on Ridge Road. When she pulled
  over to exchange information with the
  victim, she apparently also drove onto and over the curb.
  She admitted to patrol that she previously
  drank three glasses of wine while taking Xanax.
  
  • A 5-foot-long python bit a dog on Toelsin Road.
  
  • A female patient of a Harlem Road doctor kept coming
  into the office and telling the doctor that
  Jesus told her that “she is to have sex with him.” Police
  warned the woman not to return to the
  doctor’s office.
  
  • A Linda Drive female was not happy with the way her
  daughter was doing the laundry.
  
  • A Ellicott Drive female reported a female in another
  apartment was threatening to beat her up
  because she “took too many meatballs and way too much
  sauce.”
  
  • A female in the produce section of a Transit Road grocery
  store reported a female slapped her in
  the face and said she “shouldn’t leave her kids in the car.”
  
  • Police advised a small group on Clinton Street to “wrap it
  up for the night” after a complaint of
  loud music was received.
  
  • A Jamison Road caller reported an intoxicated male was
  urinating outside, then reentered his
  vehicle and continued to drink. He was charged with
  exposure and released on appearance tickets
  to a third party.
  
  • A David Drive resident reported that her neighbor was
  trying to disrupt her party by mowing his
  lawn and using a grass trimmer near her guests. The man
  was also allegedly letting his dog run
  around her lawn.
  
  • Deputies responded to Cedar Road for a male that showed
  up at a residence demanding that the
  complainant’s son stole money from him. The male had
  gone to the wrong house.
  
  • An employee of a Sheridan Drive fast food restaurant
  reported that a group of three male
  teenagers were being rowdy and threw a rock at a vehicle
  parked in the lot.
  
  • A resident of Tonawanda Creek Road reported two men
  were in his yard with a baseball bat and a
  12-pack of beer. The resident told police he told the men to
  leave his property after he spotted
  them urinating near a bedroom window.
  
  • A confused male wearing a clown outfit on Cleveland Drive
  was advised.
  
  • An employee of a Cleveland Drive funeral home
  complained that youths were skateboarding in
  the parking lot and making too much noise.
  
  • Patrol responded to a motel on Main Street, Clarence, for
  the report of a snake in the
  complainant's room.
  
  • A Stolle Road caller reported an ongoing issue with a
  barking dog. The dog’s owner was notified
  and agreed to find someone to take care of it when he is not
  home.
  
  • Five cats were reported missing from a Clinton Street
  business. One owner reports that a couple
  was in the business near closing time the night before and
  inquired about the cats.
  
  • A small pop-up camping tent, which the owner had just
  assembled the night before, was
  removed from a backyard on Mill Road.
  
  • Patrol arrested a man accused of being intoxicated and
  stealing nearly $200 worth of groceries
  from Tops on Harlem Road. The man was observed walking
  in the southbound lane of traffic on
  Harlem, despite there being a sidewalk, about a half-mile
  away from the store.
  
  • A woman reported that seven Sunoco gas station bumper
  stickers were applied to her vehicle on
  Lyndale Court.
  
  
• Police Blotter #82
  
  • A Cleveland Drive female said she "lost her husband"
  inside the house.
  
  • A Buffalo man was arrested for driving while intoxicated
  after striking a
  fire hydrant, an above-ground pool, two fences and
  shrubbery on Center Road.
  
  • Colonial Wine & Spirits reported that a man walked into
  the store and put a
  bottle of Knob Creek Whiskey into his jacket before walking
  out of the
  store.
  
  • Kohl's department store on Amelia Drive reported that a
  man tried to leave
  the store with two packages of Jockey underwear worth $54.
  
  • An Arthur Mussara Parkway male reported his wife left him
  for two months to
  go work for the carnival, leaving him to take care of two
  children. The male
  wanted police to file abandonment charges.
  
  • A guest in a Walden Avenue hotel reported people in a
  nearby room might be
  setting up a meth lab.
  
  • A male called from Corrine Lane stating that an unknown
  male had followed
  his wife from Amherst and that he and some friends had the
  vehicle blocked
  in on a dead-end street. The man was a private investigator
  who was
  investigating an insurance disability case. The investigator
  had mistakenly
  been following the wrong person.
  
  • A large battery weighing 130 pounds was taken from a
  pay loader that was
  parked behind Reserve Fire Hall on Berg Road. The battery
  was said to be
  worth $300.
  
  • A man was observed loading approximately 2 tons of
  scrap metal from Ebenezer
  Railcar on Indian Church Road into his red pickup. When the
  complainant
  questioned his actions, the man asked, "Is this steel?"
  
  • A woman on Naples Avenue reported receiving a call from
  Saks Fifth Avenue in
  New York City to confirm the purchase of a near-$550 pair
  of sneakers. The
  woman called the store's fraud department to stop the
  unauthorized purchase.
  
  • Patrol followed an alleged drunk driver who was swerving
  on Seneca Street
  and who did not activate his vehicle's headlights. Upon
  initiating a traffic
  stop, the vehicle struck the curb and went up onto the
  sidewalk, also
  striking a road marker. The driver had bloodshot eyes and
  garbled speech. In
  an attempt to recite the alphabet, the man repeated "AB3"
  several times.
  
  • A 32-year-old man from Glenwood reported that his car
  caught fire while
  driving on Milestrip Road.
  
  • A Tamark Court male called police because he didn't want
  his brother-in-law
  to live there. However, the complainant's wife did want the
  brother to live
  there, so he stayed.
  
  • Traffic was disrupted on French Road by a dog relieving
  itself in the middle
  of the road.
  
  • Police responded to a North Seine Drive residence where a
  male and female
  were having an argument about how the pizza had been
  sliced.
  
  • A Currier Street female reported a male has been writing
  messages in the
  snow on her car while she is at work and leaving presents
  from her at her
  home.
  
  • An East Cherbourg Drive male reported his girlfriend used
  his Social
  Security number to get a job at the Walmart on Transit Road.
  
  • Police received reports that a woman was standing outside
  by the cars at the
  Cheektowaga Records Center on Maryvale Drive, saying she
  needed someone to
  guard the cars because a congresswoman had taken hers.
  
  • A Washington Avenue resident was arrested for
  harassment after he threw a
  coffee table down a flight of stairs.
  
  • Police responded to Olmstead Avenue after a man
  reported his girlfriend's
  son broke the cover of the thermostat and damaged the
  wall.
  
  • Employees of a Broadway retailer called police to report a
  larceny. While en
  route to the store, the manager flagged down an officer. He
  had cornered the
  suspect between a truck and a fence.
  
  • A Euclid Avenue resident reported that his son was
  intoxicated and
  threatening to kick in the door. An officer reported that the
  son had
  locked himself out of the house and that both men were
  intoxicated.
  
  • A Buffalo man reported parking his car on Southwestern
  Boulevard and leaving
  his keys in his car. When he returned to it five minutes later,
  the vehicle
  was gone. The vehicle was a Chevrolet Lumina with "lots of
  rust and a loud
  muffler."
  
  • A woman called from Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church to
  report that her vehicle
  had been stolen. She was confused about where she had
  parked her car. She
  was assisted by patrol.
  
  • A male called from Oakway Lane with questions about a
  check he received from
  a country in Africa. The man was advised that it was a scam.
  
  • An employee of a Maple Road dental office reported that a
  22-year-old male
  was causing a disturbance at the business. The employee
  said the man, who
  cancelled several previous appointments, was in the office
  for dental work
  but was unhappy because he had to wait his turn.
  
  • A Jerome Drive female reported her soon-to-be ex-
  husband was calling her
  business customers claiming to be an FBI agent and telling
  them that the
  business was under investigation for fraud.
  
  • A Losson Road resident reported finding an intoxicated
  male lying on top of
  the complainant's car, vomiting on it. The complainant
  believed there was an
  underage drinking party going on nearby.
  
  • An Orchard Park man reported that someone went into the
  detached garage,
  jacked the car up, and stole the tire and rim. The son of the
  victim said
  his friend got mad at him and proceeded to steal the tire as
  retribution.
  
  • Patrol responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle
  parked on Lein Road. It
  was learned that the female passenger had an outstanding
  warrant out of the
  Town of Tonawanda for prostitution. She told patrol she was
  waiting for a
  friend named "Mike." However, both her clothing and
  possessions were
  indicative of prostitution.
  
  • An unknown male wearing a Mario Brothers T-shirt
  reportedly struck another
  man in the face at a Union Road bar.
  
  • Patrol responded to Cambridge Avenue where four people
  were attempting to
  free a vehicle that was stuck in the mud. The driver was
  observed to have
  slurred speech, poor coordination and a strong odor of
  alcohol on his
  breath. He said they were coming from Niagara Falls where
  they watched the
  guitar drop, during which time he "drank a lot of whiskey."
  The man refused
  to recite the alphabet, stating that he did not know it.
  
  • A resident of West Overlook Drive reported that a window
  on his motor home
  had been broken. He believed that it may have been related
  to a
  tree-trimming crew working in the area.
  
  • A Cleveland Drive male wanted his wife removed from the
  house because she
  was swearing in front of the children.
  
  • A male who was riding his bike around Town Hall and the
  Police and Court
  Building told police he was bored because the power was
  out.
  
  • Police responded to a fast food restaurant on Niagara Falls
  Boulevard where
  a group of females reportedly were unhappy with the ice
  cream cones they
  ordered. An employee of the restaurant told police that after
  the women
  became agitated, they threw the ice cream cones through
  the drive-through
  windows. Several employees were reportedly struck by the
  ice cream.
  
  • A resident of Fairgreen Drive reported an intoxicated
  neighbor was yelling
  at him about garbage in the yard.
  
  • A West Seneca resident found the words "DEAD MAN"
  written in shaving cream
  on his driveway.
  
  • A man stole nearly $200 worth of crab legs and shrimp
  from Wegmans on
  Orchard Park Road.
  
  • A woman was caught attempting to steal several items,
  including a metallic
  Santa-style bra worth $10.99, from Kmart on Orchard Park
  Road.
  
  • A 49-year-old man from Ohio was caught soliciting
  tickets to the Buffalo
  Bills game on the Route 219 ramp at Milestrip Road and was
  subsequently
  charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing traffic, being a
  pedestrian on
  a prohibited part of the state highway and soliciting on a
  highway.
  
  
• Police Blotter #81
  • Police received a call of a suspicious person standing
  outside a Walden Avenue shopping mall with a live snake
  hanging around his neck.
  
  • A Redleaf Lane resident reported three teenage males
  were carrying a baseball bat and a golf club. The
  complainant told police the youths were not “using them
  for the appropriate sports.”
  
  • A resident of Brantwood Road reported her daughter had
  left clothing at her friend’s house a couple weeks earlier.
  She told police the clothes were thrown into a bag and left
  on the front porch of her home.
  
  • Police responded to a Niagara Falls Boulevard business
  where approximately six people were reportedly pushing
  each other in front of the main entrance.
  
  • Police responded to Bernhardt Drive where a resident was
  reported her upstairs neighbor was sounding a high-
  pitched device to annoy her as retribution for complaining
  to the landlord.
  
  • At the Foot Locker on Amelia Drive, three females
  entered the store and one stole a pair of Nike Air Max
  sneakers worth $144. While two of the women distracted
  the store clerks, she slipped the sneakers into her purse. 
  Earlier, one of the women tried to return a white T-shirt
  and black shorts to the store, but the store wouldn’t let
  her because it sells only sneakers.
  
  • An Abbott Road woman who owns property on Baker
  Road said she noticed her furniture had been turned
  upside down, a wooden bench smashed and her garden
  torn up by a vehicle that drove through it.
  
  • Following a physical altercation between a male and
  female in a Slate Creek Drive residence, the grandmother
  wanted police to advise the mother “not to argue in front
  of the baby.”
  
  • Police received a report that a woman stole a 25-foot
  hay elevator from a barn on Jewett Holmwood Road. The
  owner of the barn said that he wanted the property
  returned and the woman was advised not to enter the
  property again.
  
  • Police responded to Florence Avenue on the report of a
  larceny and disorderly conduct of several male youths. The
  youths allegedly stole two street signs, one “No Parking”
  sign and one “Truck Route” sign worth a combined total of
  $700. Officers discovered two males in a driveway who
  denied the claim, yet the signs were clearly visible inside.
  
  • A man found a silver heart and other markings had been
  spray painted onto his vehicle, which was parked in his
  driveway on Woodward Drive.
  
  • On Buckeye Road, a resident reported an unknown
  person was tampering with Halloween decorations on his
  property overnight.
  
  • The clerk at a gas station on Main Street reported a
  suspicious white Chevy in the parking lot. A male kept
  getting out of the vehicle and coming into the store to
  attempt to sell the clerk drugs. The passenger had been
  grinding up aspirin on the floor mat and attempting to sell
  it as cocaine.
  
  • A man called from Roseville Drive. He was upset because
  people were using him as a reference without asking his
  permission.
  
  • Patrol responded to Kmart on Orchard Park Road to
  investigate a road rage and reckless operation incident
  between the drivers of two vehicles. According to the
  report, the female driver was approached by the male
  driver of the second vehicle, who asked why she was
  driving recklessly on Ridge Road. The female reportedly
  became vulgar and bit the arm of the male driver’s son —
  he had identified himself as an officer with the
  Lackawanna Police Department.
  
  • A woman suspected of shoplifting was said to have
  passed all points of purchase at Kmart on Orchard Park
  Road with more than $900 worth of merchandise. Items
  included a vacuum cleaner, air mattress, “Dora the
  Explorer” chair and doll, a password journal, pool float
  and two Yankee Candles.
  
  • A driver was stopped on Cindy Lane for speeding and
  following another vehicle too closely. The driver told
  patrol he was just down the road from his house and
  asked for a break because he had a “bad day.” Patrol
  observed that the driver had slurred speech and glassy
  eyes. The suspect said his eyes were red due to having
  “pink eye.” He then failed several sobriety tests.
  
  • A landscape worker reported that his backpack blower
  was stolen while he was mowing the back yard of a Union
  Road residence. The blower was valued at roughly $800.
  
  • A Roycroft Boulevard resident reported a male neighbor
  was standing on his lawn, digging and yelling “grow,
  grow, grow.”
  
  • Two males were walking with beer on Park Edge Drive.
  When questioned, the males told police “the beer fairy
  disposed of it.”
  
  • A Westcliff Drive man reported that a “larger than
  average size” pyrotechnic device or explosive was
  detonated in his pool. It caused roughly $5,000 worth of
  damage.
  
  • A woman’s Texas Long Horns doormat was removed
  from outside her Center Road home. She told police that
  her neighbor had a party the night before and she believes
  someone from the party took the mat.
  
  • The manager of an area Tim Hortons reported having
  been short money since early October. Video surveillance
  reportedly captured a female employee taking a $10 bill
  from a register and placing it in her blouse.
  
  • Patrol responded to a home on Wildwood Place on the
  report of a possible domestic incident. Upon arrival, patrol
  knocked on the door of the home but realized the caller
  was outside on the sidewalk. The woman who came to the
  door was argumentative and screamed obscenities at
  patrol before slamming the door. Patrol knocked on the
  door again to advise the woman that she was under arrest
  for disorderly conduct.
  
  • Patrol responded to Tampa Drive where a man was
  found slumped over in the driver’s seat with “drool
  dripping down his chin.” Officers failed to wake the driver
  after several attempts. They broke the window to extricate
  him, after thinking that he might have stopped breathing.
  The man finally awoke and had impaired speech and
  bloodshot eyes. He could not remember where he was
  coming from but admitted to “having some beers.”
  
  • An Orchard Park man made three appointments for
  someone to come and look at the wood-burning stove he
  was selling, and each time, the man didn’t show up. The
  victim claims the man didn’t show up just to be annoying.
  • The security alarm went off at a local carwash. A man
  was reportedly trying to buy an air freshener from the
  vending machine when it came ajar and set off the alarm.
  
  • A 13-year-old female and an 11-year-old male offered
  to rake a Pine Ridge Terrace resident’s leaves for $25.
  When the homeowner declined, the youths began
  scattering the leaves all over.
  
  • A Canadian woman reported that her purse was stolen
  from a friend’s vehicle while it was parked at the Ralph
  Wilson Stadium for a Buffalo Bills game. When they
  returned from the game, they saw the car was damaged,
  but they didn’t call police because they had poor
  cellphone reception.
  
  • Employees of a store inside the Walden Galleria reported
  a female who appeared to be intoxicated and smelled like
  alcohol offered $100 to be able to leave her three children
  in the store. The female told police she was joking.
  
  • A resident of Siegfried Drive reported finding an eight-
  inch bone on his front porch. He told police we was
  worried because he was unsure if it was a human bone or
  from the remains of an animal.
  
  • An Orchard Park woman brought 26 guns to the police
  station for safekeeping while they are being transferred
  from her father’s gun license to her own.
  
  • A male asked police to escort him when picking up his
  child, because he was “afraid the child’s mother would
  beat him up.”
  
  • A Linda Drive female reported a male wearing a white
  shirt that “looked like a drug addict” was pounding on her
  door.
  
  • A woman reported that her 16-year-old son had been
  missing for 24 hours. While patrol was interviewing the
  complainant, her son sent her a text message to pick him
  up at his friend’s house.
  
  • A Shepard Avenue resident complained that there was
  yelling and screaming coming from an upstairs tenant. An
  officer reported that a pair of individuals were discussing
  school supplies and were advised to lower their voices.
  
  • Three bowling balls and a pair of bowling shoes were
  removed from the open bed of a man’s pickup while it was
  parked on Orchard Park Road.
  
  • A Ransom Road resident stated that there was a
  suspicious man driving a lawnmower in her backyard. The
  woman’s husband had apparently hired a lawn service but
  had neglected to tell his wife.
  
  • A suspicious vehicle reported on Goodrich Road involved
  a male and female looking in a drainpipe. They were on a
  worldwide geocache scavenger hunt, and an item had
  been hidden in the pipe.
  
  • The driver-side mirror of a woman’s vehicle was broken
  off after it was struck by a water balloon while traveling on
  Seneca Street in the area of a banquet facility.
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  • An Arrowood Lane woman reported finding a bicycle at the bottom of her
  in-ground pool.
  
  Duff's on Orchard Park Road reported that one of its electronic game
  machines was broken into, and $114 worth of game tokens were stolen.
  
  Several lawn ornaments were taken from a Cathedral Drive property, including
  one gnome that held a sign stating, "Gnome, Sweet Gnome."
  
  Two individuals were arrested after patrol found them on Seneca Street
  inside a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The driver spoke Spanish
  only, but the passenger, who spoke some English, called her sister to
  respond to the scene and act as a translator. Patrol learned that the
  vehicle, which was unregistered, uninsured and displayed a stolen vehicle's
  license plate on its front end, had reportedly been given to the subjects as
  a "marriage present."
• Police Blotter #80
  
  • An Arrowood Lane woman reported finding a bicycle at
  the bottom of her
  in-ground pool.
  
  • Duff's on Orchard Park Road reported that one of its
  electronic game
  machines was broken into, and $114 worth of game
  tokens were stolen.
  
  • Several lawn ornaments were taken from a Cathedral
  Drive property, including
  one gnome that held a sign stating, "Gnome, Sweet
  Gnome."
  
  • Two individuals were arrested after patrol found them
  on Seneca Street
  inside a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The driver
  spoke Spanish
  only, but the passenger, who spoke some English, called
  her sister to
  respond to the scene and act as a translator. Patrol
  learned that the
  vehicle, which was unregistered, uninsured and displayed
  a stolen vehicle's
  license plate on its front end, had reportedly been given to
  the subjects as
  a "marriage present."
  
  • A Woodell Avenue resident reported neighbor children
  were jumping from the
  roof onto the complainant's trampoline.
  
  • A customer at a Union Road electronics store
  complained that a security
  officer wouldn't wash his hands before checking the
  complainant's receipt.
  
  • A Linden Street resident reported a neighbor was
  hanging laundry on the
  complainant's fence and refusing to take it down.
  
  • A Knox Avenue woman had a loud party that continued
  into the morning as well
  as a large, uncovered fire pit.
  
  • Police found an amorous couple in a car parked in the
  ramp at the Walden
  Galleria. Police reported the couple was "heavily engaged
  and making
  progress."
  
  • A naked elderly male was found by a shelter in
  Cheektowaga Town Park. Police
  reported the male "took cooling off a little too far."
  
  • An elderly man at a Thruway Plaza business was advised
  not to eat the chips
  before paying for them.
  
  • A woman called from St. Stanislaus Cemetery, stating
  that she had dropped
  her keys into a grave. She had actually dropped them into
  a sewer grate, and
  police assisted.
  
  • Jim Ball Cadillac Buick GMC on Southwestern Boulevard
  reported that someone
  stole four tires and rims from a Cadillac Escalade parked
  in the lot. The
  estimated loss was $67,000.
  
  • A Benning Road resident reported three street signs
  lying in the road. Two
  were speed limit signs and the other, a stop sign.
  
  • A male allegedly tried to leave Tops on Orchard Park
  Road without paying for
  paper goods that were observed tucked under his arm.
  Also, a mug and glass
  jar candle were seen bulging out of his pants pockets.
  
  • Twelve pairs of sunglasses worth $1,625 were stolen
  from a locked display
  case at Council Opticians on Seneca Street. The key was
  said to have been
  left on top of the case.
  
  • At Kmart on Orchard Park Road, a man allegedly stole
  two televisions and two
  speakers on two consecutive days. Both times he left
  through the garden
  exits.
  
  • An Ellis Road woman reported that her dog got into a
  fight with a raccoon.
  
  • A wedding reception on Graystone Lane went awry when
  the portable unit used
  for cooking by a caterer in the driveway malfunctioned,
  bursting into
  flames.
  
  • The landlord of a Juniper Lane residence reported a
  tenant being evicted
  hung a dummy from a tree with the landlord's name on it.
  
  • An upturned turtle was reportedly causing traffic
  problems and blocking the
  entrance to a driveway on Dodge Road. The turtle
  eventually escaped.
  
  • A Fairglen Drive resident reported that two boys put an
  empty stroller in
  the middle of the road, and after she told them to stop,
  they followed her
  around the neighborhood, swearing at her.
  
  • Police responded to a report that a motorist opened her
  gas tank to fill it
  and found an M-80 fire cracker was inside.
  
  • Police responded to a report on Millersport Highway that
  two youths were
  throwing rocks at passing cars.
  
  • A Longmeadow Road resident wanted police to advise a
  neighbor about throwing
  trash over the fence for the last two weeks.
  
  • A customer of a Niagara Falls Boulevard department
  store reported that a man
  parked in a burgundy minivan was behaving
  inappropriately.
  
  • Police responded to a Maple Road business where an
  intoxicated female was
  refusing to leave.
  
  • Police were called from a bike path phone on Tonawanda
  Creek Road. When
  police answered, the person who called said, "Oh wow,
  this really works,"
  and hung up.
  
  • An employee at a home improvement store on Niagara
  Falls Boulevard reported
  that a pressure washer from outside the store was stolen
  by a man in a black
  Ford Explorer.
  
  • Police arrested a male for criminal trespassing in a Broad
  Street residence.
  The male reportedly left a cell phone and vomit in the
  residence.
  
  • A Breezewood Drive man reported that someone entered
  his property and threw
  all his patio furniture into the pool.
  
  • A Silent Meadow Lane man reported that someone used
  his MasterCard to
  purchase $3,200 worth of plus-sized women's' clothing.
  
  • An Aurora Avenue man unknowingly lent his car to an
  acquaintance that
  reportedly used it to steal tools from a construction site.
  While doing so,
  the man received a call from his friend, who was heading
  to a nearby pawn
  shop.
  
  • A physical altercation between a 16-year-old female and
  her mother stemmed
  from the mother buying school supplies for a younger
  sibling.
  
  • Two 10-year-old boys tried to steal a game from a
  Thruway Plaza Drive
  business, but the manager sent them on their way. The
  boys were then seen on
  the curb outside crying, because one of their bicycles had
  been stolen.
  
  • A Meadowbrook Parkway female reported a neighbor
  took a bath, brushed her
  teeth and did her laundry in the complainant's pool.
  
  • A motorist pulled over on the Kensington Expressway
  because he dropped a
  cigarette and set his pants on fire.
  
  • Patrol arrested an Edson Street man who was belligerent
  and charged with
  disorderly conduct. The man was reportedly intoxicated
  and had slammed his
  front door several times, agitating neighbors. He told the
  patrol he was
  looking for his pet.
  
  • A man on Marlow Drive reported that 50 bottles of beer
  and a bottle of vodka
  were stolen from his garage.
  
  • An employee of the Buffalo Postal Community Federal
  Credit Union on Orchard
  Park Road reported coming to work and smelling an odor
  of bleach throughout
  the building.
  
  • Two drunken males were vomiting and arguing on the
  porch of a Winkler Road
  house over which one was more sober to drive.
  
  • A Cheektowaga woman reported her ex-boyfriend
  posted on Facebook that she is
  a "fat slob."
  
  • A West Grand resident reported his neighbor on Central
  Boulevard was
  pounding stakes into the ground at 1 a.m. The male was
  assembling a swing
  set and was advised to do it during the day.
  
  • A Viola Drive female reported her neighbor cut up her
  clothes.
  
  • Two teenage males were going door to door on
  Greenleaf Lane, asking people
  if they knew how to dance and wanted residents to come
  out and show them.
  
  • Two young males were knocking on doors on Garden
  Village Drive, asking
  people to donate money to charity. When asked, they
  could not identify the
  charity they represented.
  
  • Patrol removed a chair in the roadway on Route 400 near
  the Maple Street
  exit.
  
  • An Elma woman reported that a woman was giving out
  her phone number and
  information so people could harass her.
  
  • A dancer from a Genesee Street night club reported
  another dancer threw hot
  coffee on her.
  
  • A resident called to report an incident that happened
  with their new nanny,
  of only 10 days, who is from Poland and on a school study
  abroad program.
  The nanny said she was going to the library with the 4-
  year-old twins in her
  charge. Later, the resident got a call from the nanny, who
  said that she was
  lost in Cleveland, Ohio.
  
  • Deputies responded to a business on Transit Road to
  investigate a couple
  selling puppies out of a vehicle. The driver was cited for
  an unregistered
  and uninspected vehicle and advised not to sell items
  without the proper
  permits.
  
  • A vehicle was reported to be driving erratically on
  Goodrich Road. The
  driver admitted that she had been distracted by her child
  and almost went
  through the red light at County Road.