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Man arrested after jettisoning switchblade, police say

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An Auburn Avenue man was arrested early Friday for having a switchblade, police said.

Edgards DeJesus-Rodriguez, 23, faces weapons and criminal mischief charges. Officers responding to a call for assistance in the 800-block of Niagara Street about 12:30 a.m. saw him throw the silver switchblade to the ground, police said.

Failure to use signal on turn leads police to DWI suspect

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A Clinton Street man was arrested on drunken driving charges after being stopped for failing to signal a turn from Clinton Street onto Olson Street about 3 a.m. Friday, police said.

Anthony J. Ferris, 31. was charged with driving while intoxicated, aggravated unlicensed operation, improper inspection certificate and making an improper turn. Police said they stopped him in the 600 block of Bailey Avenue.

Falls man denies selling crack in Lockport

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LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded not guilty Friday in Niagara County Court to charges that he sold crack cocaine twice to a police informant in the City of Lockport.

Deandre M. Mathews, 22, of Jordan Gardens, was indicted on two counts each of third-degree criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance. The alleged drug deals occurred Nov. 30 and Dec. 5, Assistant District Attorney Peter M. Wydysh said. Mathews was held in lieu of $1,000 bail.

Retrial set for Falls burglary suspect

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LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man accused of a burglary, who aborted his trial last month by checking into a hospital’s mental health unit, has been found mentally competent to go through a second trial, set for May 28.

Edward J. Parmer, 52, of 22nd Street, was taken to the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center behavior health unit March 11, after jury selection had been completed. Two doctors have found him competent, a development Assistant Public Defender A. Joseph Catalano attributed to new medications for Parmer.

“He’s like a new man,” Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said as Parmer stood before her Friday. He is being held in the County Jail on charges of second-degree burglary, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny, stemming from an alleged July 18 break-in at a house on Willow Avenue in the Falls.

Sex offender avoids jail for moving without notice

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LOCKPORT – Five years’ probation was the sentence from Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas Friday for a Level 1 sex offender who moved from Niagara Falls to Buffalo without reporting the change of address to the state as required by law.

John E. Allen, 44, moved from 17th Street in the Falls to Niagara Street in Buffalo in March 2012. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge of failure to register.

Double felon assigned to drug-treatment program

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LOCKPORT – Malique L. Rogers of Niagara Falls pleaded guilty to two felonies Friday and was assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.

Rogers, 37, of Cudaback Avenue, admitted to third-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He faces up to 11 years in prison if he washes out of the treatment program.

Rogers admitted taking part in a Nov. 28 burglary at a vacant house on Fourth Street in Niagara Falls. His brother Emanuel L. Rogers, 31, of Maple Street, Buffalo, still faces charges in that case.

Malique Rogers also admitted using a woman’s credit card to run up $634.11 in purchases Jan. 24. Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. Scalzo said it’s unclear how Rogers obtained the card, which the victim reported missing after hoping to use it at a Buffalo gas station.

Newfane home raided as a meth lab by state police and niagara county sheriff

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A Hazardous Materials Response Cleanup team was dispatched to clear volatile meth lab chemicals from a Franklin Street home in Newfane after it was raided by Niagara County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force and state police late Thursday.

Sheriff James R. Voutour said a two-month probe targeted 1579 Franklin St., where methamphetamine was made and sold. Two Newfane men, Dearick Hoefer, 32, and Geoffrey Linderman, 28, were arrested.

Hoefer is being held in lieu of $15,000 bail on a felony charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree. Linderman was charged with maintaining a public nuisance and released on $250 bail, officials said.

The sheriff said the sale of the dangerous drug out of the Franklin Street house had been the subject of neighborhood complaints, which prompted the joint investigation. Voutour said the Newfane meth lab is the 12th one shut down in Western New York since early 2012.



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Two escape fire that heavily damages Newfane home

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NEWFANE – Fire caused heavy damage to a house at 2380 Lockport-Olcott Road Friday evening, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies wsaid.

Residents Jay M. and Stacie L. Hughes, who were in the house when the fire began shortly before 6:30 p.m,, left safely before police and fire crews arrived. Jay Hughes said that when he went downstairs to check on his barking dogs, he saw smoke and his porch on fire.

Dale Road resident Donald L. Geier said he was driving by when he noticed the fire and made sure everyone was out of the house. He also told deputies he extinguished flames that spread to a bush and bird feeder next-door at 2374 Lockport-Olcott.

A damage amount was unavailable. The Red Cross is assisting. Miller House Volunteer Fire Department fought the blaze, with Wrights Corners and Olcott volunteers assisting.

Neighbor’s tip leads police to two suspected copper thieves

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NIAGARA FALLS – An alert neighbor who spotted two intruders in a Seventh Street home Saturday morning is credited with tipping off police, who foiled the theft of copper plumbing.

Charged with third-degree burglary, third-degree criminal mischief and attempted petit larceny are Albert A. Torres-Roman, 18, of Michigan Avenue, and Jose C. Rivera, 21, of Fourth Street. Rivera was also charged with resisting arrest.

When police arrived at the home in the 500 block of Seventh Street, they apprehended one of the suspects as he tried to flee through the front door, then chased another through backyards before catching him a short distance away, police said. Officers said a rear window was broken out and and a door kicked down.

Police found about 150 feet of newly cut copper plumbing stacked in the basement, and water leaking from damaged lines.

Four arrested in Wheatfield home during probe of underage drinking

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WHEATFIELD – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies on Friday morning arrested four people at a Cayuga Drive Extension home that was the scene of underage drinking.

Deputies, who also said they found several Ecstasy tablets within arm’s length of a 7-month-old baby, were called to the home about 9 a.m. to check on the welfare of the baby girl, who was in a bedroom upstairs.

A teenage girl described as “highly intoxicated” who became belligerent with deputies was charged with disorderly conduct. She was identified as Camille L. Ballantine, 18, of Linwood Avenue, Niagara Falls.

An unidentified teen was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, according to reports. Several others who told police they had come to the address to smoke marijuana were dispersed by police.

Marteen M. Crogan, 21, of Mount Hope Road, Lewiston, identified as the mother of the baby, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, as was Jimmy Leon, 22, of the Cayuga Drive address,identified as the baby’s father. He could faces additional charges pending laboratory tests on suspected drugs, deputies said.

Child Protective Services was also contacted, police said.

Disqualified Olympian sues maker of supplement over failed drug test

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LOCKPORT – A lawsuit filed here last week pits a Hungarian discus thrower, who was barred from last summer’s Olympic Games in London because of a failed drug test, against a Canadian company that he claims concealed the presence of steroids in a protein supplement he was taking.

Robert Fazekas and his coach, Adrian Annus, filed the lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Niagara County because the supplement maker, MVP Biotech, has its U.S. distribution address in Niagara Falls, according to attorney Kalman Magyar.

The company actually is based in Kirkland, Quebec.

Fazekas and Annus are no strangers to doping controversies. Both men were stripped of gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens for doping-related violations. Fazekas had won the discus competition, and Annus had won the hammer throw.

They are represented in their damage suit by Minryu Kim of Buffalo’s Phillips Lytle law firm and by Magyar, a Toronto attorney.

Fazekas, 37, probably missed his last chance at Olympic glory because of the disqualification following a pre-Olympic drug test, Magyar said.

“We believe he would have won in the Olympics,” Magyar said. “During training right before the Olympics, which he was not allowed to go to in the end, he threw a longer throw than the eventual gold medalist in London. We surely believe he was greatly harmed here. … He’s never tested positive for steroids until he came across MVP’s products.”

Fazekas was barred from competitions after the test. He served a two-year ban after the 2004 Athens disqualification, which came after he was unable to produce enough urine to be tested following the event. That was regarded as a violation of the rules.

The Hungarian Olympic Committee asserted that Fazekas is a deeply religious person who, after his Athens win, tried for hours but was unable to produce a urine sample with people watching him.

An International Olympic Committee disciplinary board wasn’t impressed by that argument and disqualified him.

After his suspension, Fazekas made a comeback, finishing eighth in the discus at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The next year, he underwent spinal surgery. That didn’t stop him from finishing third at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.

That’s the same year that Annus, the former hammer-thrower who was accused of submitting someone else’s urine to be tested in his place at Athens in 2004, became Fazekas’ coach.

In 2012, Fazekas qualified for the London Olympics in an April competition in California, Magyar said. He passed a drug test.

He then began taking “Pro Whey,” a protein supplement sold by MVP Biotech. In June or July, a doping test conducted by a Vienna laboratory certified by the World Anti-Doping Agency picked up anabolic steroids in Fazekas’ urine.

It was “one nanogram per milliliter, the tiniest amount possible,” according to Magyar.

Fazekas sent the lab samples of the supplements he was taking, including opened and unopened containers of Pro Whey. Both containers tested positive for steroids, according to Magyar.

The lawsuit accuses MVP Biotech of failing to list the steroid in question, called Stanozolol, among Pro Whey’s ingredients.

“That is a prohibited substance,” Magyar said. “He never would have taken it if it was [listed].” Calls by The Buffalo News to MVP Biotech’s 800 number and its headquarters in Quebec were not returned.



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Sinclairville man who drove vehicle into ditch charged with endangerment

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SINCLAIRVILLE – A Sinclairville man charged with endangering the welfare of a child is accused of driving a vehicle containing two children into a ditch in the Town of Charlotte shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday.

James G. Hall, 33, of Edson Road, also is charged with harassment and criminal mischief. Following a hearing in Town of Charlotte Court, he was remanded to Chautauqua County Jail in lieu of bail.

Chautauqua County Sheriff’s deputies said they arrested Hall after a complaint was lodged. Hall also is accused of slapping an unidentified victim in the face and destroying household property. Further information was unavailable.

Reveler at loud party attracts the attention of police

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Charles Fuller, 22, of Merrimac Street, refused a police order to leave a loud party early Saturday on Englewood Avenue and attracted officers’ attention with “unreasonable noises,” according to Buffalo police.

Officers also said he had a bag with an ounce of marijuana.

Fuller told police he obtained it from his residence, and he gave officers permission to search his home a few blocks away, according to the report. But when he arrived at the house, he denied living there. Police recovered a jar of marijuana from his top dresser drawer.

Fuller was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental administration and criminal possession of marijuana, police said.

Buffalo woman arrested in Chippewa disturbance

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An East Morris Avenue woman faces a second-degree assault charge after slapping one police officer’s hand and kicking another officer in the right shin during an arrest Saturday morning, authorities said.

Jasmine Williams, 21, also faces harassment and disorderly conduct charges.

Williams was asked several times to leave the Chippewa Street bar district but became loud and abusive and yelled obscenities at police officers, according to a Buffalo police.

Williams was blocking pedestrian and vehicular traffic as police attempted to make the arrest, according to the report.

Man wearing body armor faces drug count

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A man wearing body armor tossed a semiautomatic handgun next to a house as he was chased down Woltz Avenue by Buffalo police officers Friday evening.

Antwan Castleberry, no age or address available, fled through a yard towards Fillmore Avenue and was caught a couple of blocks away on Beck Street, according to a police report.

Police found him with 31 bags of suspected crack cocaine and eight bags of marijuana, according to the report.

Castleberry was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Buffalo man robbed of cash and MP3 player

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A 42-year-old Buffalo man said he was robbed of cash and MP3 player while walking along Scott Street, police said Saturday.

An older-model red Pontiac Grand Am or Grand Prix first drove past the victim. The man kept walking and then the vehicle pulled up from behind Friday afternoon and a passenger pointed a silver handgun at the victim. The robber said, “Give up what you got,” according to police.

Man shot on Rodney Avenue dies

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A 22-year-old man who was shot outside on Rodney Avenue, near Fillmore Avenue, about 7:20 p.m. Saturday died today, Buffalo police said.

The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where he died.

Police ask anyone with information about the shooting to call or text the confidential TIP-CALL Line at 847-2255.

Disqualified Olympian sues maker of supplement over failed drug test

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LOCKPORT – A lawsuit filed here last week pits a Hungarian discus thrower, who was barred from last summer’s Olympic Games in London because of a failed drug test, against a Canadian company that he claims concealed the presence of steroids in a protein supplement he was taking.

Robert Fazekas and his coach, Adrian Annus, filed the lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Niagara County because the supplement maker, MVP Biotech, has its U.S. distribution address in Niagara Falls, according to attorney Kalman Magyar.

The company actually is based in Kirkland, Quebec.

Fazekas and Annus are no strangers to doping controversies. Both men were stripped of gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens for doping-related violations. Fazekas had won the discus competition, and Annus had won the hammer throw.

They are represented in their damage suit by Minryu Kim of Buffalo’s Phillips Lytle law firm and by Magyar, a Toronto attorney.

Fazekas, 37, probably missed his last chance at Olympic glory because of the disqualification following a pre-Olympic drug test, Magyar said.

“We believe he would have won in the Olympics,” Magyar said. “During training right before the Olympics, which he was not allowed to go to in the end, he threw a longer throw than the eventual gold medalist in London. We surely believe he was greatly harmed here. … He’s never tested positive for steroids until he came across MVP’s products.”

Fazekas was barred from competitions after the test. He served a two-year ban after the 2004 Athens disqualification, which came after he was unable to produce enough urine to be tested following the event. That was regarded as a violation of the rules.

The Hungarian Olympic Committee asserted that Fazekas is a deeply religious person who, after his Athens win, tried for hours but was unable to produce a urine sample with people watching him.

An International Olympic Committee disciplinary board wasn’t impressed by that argument and disqualified him.

After his suspension, Fazekas made a comeback, finishing eighth in the discus at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The next year, he underwent spinal surgery. That didn’t stop him from finishing third at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.

That’s the same year that Annus, the former hammer-thrower who was accused of submitting someone else’s urine to be tested in his place at Athens in 2004, became Fazekas’ coach.

In 2012, Fazekas qualified for the London Olympics in an April competition in California, Magyar said. He passed a drug test.

He then began taking “Pro Whey,” a protein supplement sold by MVP Biotech. In June or July, a doping test conducted by a Vienna laboratory certified by the World Anti-Doping Agency picked up anabolic steroids in Fazekas’ urine.

It was “one nanogram per milliliter, the tiniest amount possible,” according to Magyar.

Fazekas sent the lab samples of the supplements he was taking, including opened and unopened containers of Pro Whey. Both containers tested positive for steroids, according to Magyar.

The lawsuit accuses MVP Biotech of failing to list the steroid in question, called Stanozolol, among Pro Whey’s ingredients.

“That is a prohibited substance,” Magyar said. “He never would have taken it if it was [listed].” Calls by The Buffalo News to MVP Biotech’s 800 number and its headquarters in Quebec were not returned.



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Dry, windy conditions spur four rural fires

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SHERIDAN – Four fires in wooded, rural areas kept firefighters in northern Chautauqua County busy this morning.

The largest of the fires was in the town of Sheridan on Route 39. The call went out at about 5:30 a.m. and kept Route 30 closed from Center to Walnut roads for two and a half hours. Tony Faso, northern Chautauqua County fire battalion coordinator, said the Sheridan Volunteer Fire Department, Forestville Fire Department and Chautauqua County Fire Police were all called to the scene.

Faso said that the fire came near a couple of structures but that the firefighters kept the blaze contained to brush, grass and some woods.

Faso said there were three additional calls before 10 a.m. today. He said Sheridan responded to a second grass fire and firefighters were also called out in Brocton and Portland. Unusual dry conditions in the rural areas and very strong winds contributed to the fires. The cause of the fire on Route 39 is under investigation. No injuries were reported.

Fredonia woman charged with DWI in Pomfret

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A Fredonia woman was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and other traffic violations early Sunday morning in Pomfret, according to the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office.

Cortney L. Tomsick, 23, of 71 Gardner St., was pulled over around 1 am. Sunday on W. Main Road in Pomfret after deputies observed her moving from her lane unsafely and failing to keep right, they said.

Tomsick was found to be intoxicated, and was taken into custody and later released, and was issued appearance tickets to appear in Pomfret town court at a later date, deputies said.
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