By Bob Loblaw

A Niagara County Sheriff’s deputy pulled his gun and handcuffed Mike Cejka in an unusual incident last week.

Cejka reportedly sped from the scene in his 1987 Jeep Cherokee moments after pulling up the tarp covering a moped parked in a driveway on Old Beattie Road.

The incident happened at 4am, sparking concerns that Cejka has “gone ‘Barry Lillis’ on us,” according to WIVB producer James Lennon.  “You see, Barry would do the 11pm weather forecast and then get bombed up on Black Velvet and try to lift anything resembling a skirt. Of course he would start with the crew and female staffers at the station but would eventually lift anything that resembled a fabric covering.”  Lennon continued, “He once lifted a painters tarp and was attempting to mount a tool box after a newscast in ‘79.”

Cejka tried to use his enormous popularity when apprehended by screaming, “Don’t You Know Who I Am, I’m Mike Cejka!” He then lifted up both hands, clenched them into fists and began swinging them wildly. He then said, “This is thunder, and this is lightning, you want to get caught up in this storm?”

The officer responded by aggressively taking down Cejka and tossing him in the back of the squad car.

Cejka’s last comments were, “Cloudy with 100% chance of your back seat getting soiled.”

Attempts to reach the Cejka residence were not successful.  Actually, we didn’t really try.