Man charged after striking shoveler with weapon
A 55-year-old man is facing a number of charges after an incident with a weapon on New Year’s Eve.
Dunkirk Police report Jerry J. Small was charged with third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree menacing, trespass and second-degree harassment.
Officers received a complaint that an unknown man came on a complainant’s property and attempted to hit them with a homemade weapon after 4:30 p.m. Patrols reviewed the footage they provided and identified the suspect as Small.
The video shows Small come on their property as they were shoveling and the complainant asks Small to leave. He refused.
Small then swings a homemade nunchucks, striking the complainant and walking away. He was located a short time later and taken into custody. Nunchuck sticks are illegal in New York.
Small was held for arraignment and later released.
