This week in stupid crime

Stop yelling obscenities

Deirdre A. Dixon, 28, 1705 Pierce Ave., Apt. lower, was charged with disorderly conduct last week after she got into an argument out in front of her house. Police were called. Arriving on the scene, they told her she needed to stop yelling obscenities, but she flat out refused and was charged.

Bouncy Ball bandits

Police are looking into a theft from a restaurant in the 700 block of Portage Road. An employee told officers that three suspects, two men and a woman, were using a vending machine, known as the Bouncy Ball Dispenser, inside the restaurant at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday. The man said the woman in the group began yelling about the machine taking her money and all three suspects began to hit, kick and bang the machine. The suspects were able to break into the machine and made off with an undetermined amount of cash, all in quarters.

Don’t forget the bagels

A Falls woman was arrested at the Seneca Niagara Casino after security officers said they caught her taking taking three bagels, a doughnut, two apples,12 Timbits, a large smoothie and a large ice tea from the Tim Horton’s Cafe there without paying. Myra A. Robinson, 20, 1605 Centre Ave., was charged with petit larceny and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Police said they also found almost a gram of heroin in Robinson’s possession while she was being booked at the city jail.

Why they call it dope

When you’re on probation, police officers and probation officials are likely to drop around anytime and want to search the house. It’s a bad idea to keep illegal drugs there.

Two Lockport residents face drug charges after police assisted in a search of their home last week as part of a routine probation procedure. Nicole L. Jordan, 34, 97 Willow St., Apt. 3, was charged with third- and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, while her husband, Bryan Jordan, 36, was charged with third-, fifth- and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

While the Jordans’ apartment was searched, a patrol officer checked a makeup bag in a bathroom and found packages containing suspected cocaine. A black digital scale, a spoon and a knife were also found, the report said. And when Bryan Jordan was searched, the officer found a quantity of suspected cocaine tucked into a pocket on his shorts, the report said.

Wilson welfare party

Brittney Kindzia, 30, is charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree welfare fraud and three counts of first-degree filing a false instrument, in connection with the receipt of over $3,000 in welfare benefits between October of 2015 and this past March.

Her arrest last week followed an investigation by the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office’s welfare fraud unit and the county Department of Social Services.

Stole car, police chase

A Somerset man faces a raft of charges after a giving a Niagara County Sheriff’s deputy chase in a reportedly stolen car last week.

Carl J. Rivers, 47, is charged with third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, unlawfully fleeing a police officer, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, reckless driving, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation and numerous traffic violations. Rivers was arraigned in town court and was ordered held without bail until a Sept. 6 return appearance.

On Friday afternoon, the sheriff’s office fielded a tip about Rivers driving a vehicle in town that had been reported stolen in Pasco County, Florida. A deputy located the vehicle and Rivers, who refused to pull over. He was caught after he struck a rock while trying to enter private property on Hartland Road, then tried to flee on foot, the sheriff’s office said.