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ASSAULT: A man who said he’d been drinking all day showed up at Niagara Falls Memorial with several wounds from a box cutter after he was jumped and stabbed at a location identified by police but redacted in the report.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Officers were called to a disturbance at about 3:19 a.m. Saturday near 754 15th St. where Nyfia Skopinski, 23, was on the street asking police to get her sister in the house. Skopinski, asked to calm down, allegedly said “fuck you, pig” and “you all are pussies”. A neighbor came outside to investigate the commotion and was told to “shut the fuck up.” Skopinski was charged with disorderly conduct.
ATTEMPTED CAR THEFT: A Portage Road resident reported sometime on the Friday/Saturday overnight someone smashed the rear window of her Hyundai and damaged the steering column in an attempted theft.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Police on patrol on Niagara Falls Boulevard at about 11:20 a.m. Saturday observed Sharonna Foster, 47, pushing a shopping cart in traffic making cars move to avoid her. She was taken into custody on a charge of disorderly conduct and turned over to AMR for a mental health evaluation at Niagara Falls Memorial.
TRAFFIC STOP: Officers on patrol in a known drug area near North Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. Monday reported seeing a vehicle pull into a suspicious location and pulling over to observe. The vehicle took off quickly and headed in the other direction. After a short chase, Verquan Jackson, 19, of 1865 Linwood Ave. pulled over and was sweating profusely and shaking even though it was 40 degrees outside. Jackson told police he ran because he did not want to go back to jail for possessing crack. None was found. Police suspected he ditched it during the chase. Johnson was charged with equipment violation, insufficient lights; aggravated unlicensed operation, imprudent speed, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, failure to stop at a stop sign, moving from a lane unsafely and no license.
WARRANT: Police saw a vehicle pass a stop sign on Michigan Avenue at about 4:20 a.m. Monday and executed a traffic stop. Terrence Jones, 61, of Packard Court was issued a traffic ticket and detained on a warrant.
