Niagara Falls Police Blotter

SUSPENDED REGISTRATION: A plate reader showed a suspended registration on a Durango being driven on Pine Avenue by a Willow Avenue woman at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. She claimed when she tried to straighten it out at the DMV they told her to come back in the New Year. She was charged with failure to notify of an address change, failure to deliver license and registration, no insurance and aggravated unlicensed operation.

NEW YEAR DWI: At 12:37 a.m. on January 1, police responded to a property damage accident involving a suspected intoxicated driver. Ashland Avenue man on the scene, purported to be the driver, was attempting to walk away from officers stating he needed to “go take pictures of the whole thing.” The driver’s 2019 Jeep rear-ended a vehicle slowing in the 400 block of 19th Street. The suspect was argumentative, blamed the other driver, and admitted having consumed 1 beer. He became argumentative after failing field sobriety tests. The suspect blew a .014 breath test at the police station. The driver and passenger in the vehicle he struck both complained of pain. The suspect was charged with imprudent speed, following too closely and DWI.

WHY DID HE RUN?: At 5:10 p.m. Tuesday, a Weston Avenue man ran a stop sign while operating a vehicle without its lights on near Grand Avenue and 24th Street. When police attempted a traffic stop, the suspect tried to drive away, turning westbound from Niagara Street onto 27th where he lost control, crashed into a fence and ran. Police chased him down. The driver refused to cooperate and was taken into custody with force. He was charged with fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, moving from a lane unsafely, imprudent speed, reckless driving, failure to use the designated lane, driving across a sidewalk and obstructing governmental administration.