From the Buffalo News...
RANSOMVILLE — Niagara County sheriff’s deputies were quickly called Tuesday after an alleged second attempt was made to steal scrap copper from a home in the 3700 block of Ransomville Road.
Two Gasport residents, Joshua K. Ferguson, 20, of Quaker Road, and Jonathan M. Reeson, 20, of Chapman Road, were arrested. Deputies said they stopped the car being driven by Ferguson in the Village of Wilson and found a large amount of scrap metal in the trunk. About 200 pounds of copper, valued at $600, was reported stolen from the home Monday, and a neighbor told deputies that he saw two men in the driveway.
The neighbor called authorities when he saw another suspicious car at the scene Tuesday. He was able to identify the car as the one he had seen Tuesday and Ferguson as one of the two men he saw at the scene, deputies said.
Reeson was charged with criminal trespass in Tuesday’s incident, deputies said, and Ferguson was charged with two counts of criminal trespass for the incidents on both days, as well as with petit larceny.
RANSOMVILLE — Niagara County sheriff’s deputies were quickly called Tuesday after an alleged second attempt was made to steal scrap copper from a home in the 3700 block of Ransomville Road.
Two Gasport residents, Joshua K. Ferguson, 20, of Quaker Road, and Jonathan M. Reeson, 20, of Chapman Road, were arrested. Deputies said they stopped the car being driven by Ferguson in the Village of Wilson and found a large amount of scrap metal in the trunk. About 200 pounds of copper, valued at $600, was reported stolen from the home Monday, and a neighbor told deputies that he saw two men in the driveway.
The neighbor called authorities when he saw another suspicious car at the scene Tuesday. He was able to identify the car as the one he had seen Tuesday and Ferguson as one of the two men he saw at the scene, deputies said.
Reeson was charged with criminal trespass in Tuesday’s incident, deputies said, and Ferguson was charged with two counts of criminal trespass for the incidents on both days, as well as with petit larceny.
