Police Log

Posted 3/31/15

BROKEN WINDOW

Officer Quentin Tavares was dispatched to Rays Hobby at 190 Buttonwoods Ave. at approximately 10:38 p.m. on March 17 for the report of a burglary alarm. Prior to arrival, Tavares …

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BROKEN WINDOW

Officer Quentin Tavares was dispatched to Rays Hobby at 190 Buttonwoods Ave. at approximately 10:38 p.m. on March 17 for the report of a burglary alarm. Prior to arrival, Tavares said Dispatch advised the alarm code was for a front glass break. Upon arrival, Tavares said another officer was on scene observing there was a broken window, so he checked the rear of the building. Tavares said he observed the gate of the fence was open and the screen door to one of the rear doors of the building was propped open with a cinder block. He also observed several pry marks on the door lock. Tavares said officers were able to determine the possible suspect did not gain entry to the building prior to officers’ arrival. He said detectives were able to contact the owner of the building, who observed that nothing was taken and secured the broken window.

DAMAGED BUS

Officer Michael Walker responded to the vocational school building at 575 Centerville Rd. at approximately 11:19 a.m. on March 23 for the report of a malicious damage to a school bus. Walker said he discovered the bus had a broken window in its main folding door. He obtained a hand-written statement from the director, who said the last time he observed the bus without any damage was on March 20. The director said the city would press charges if a suspect is found.

STOLEN BATTERIES

Officer James Vible responded to Deslandes Construction at 126 Bellows Street at about 11:45 a.m. on March 25 for the report of two Mack truck batteries that had been stolen overnight. Vible said he met with the business owner, who said he and his employees confirmed two truck batteries were stolen from their company truck. According to one of the employees, the truck was parked facing south with the trailer attached and was staged in this area on March 23 for an upcoming job. Employees said the truck was in good condition at the end of the workday on March 24. Another employee told Vible he first observed the battery covers of the truck on the ground and the batteries missing around 6 a.m. the morning of March 25 when he reported for work. He said he advised the office manager, who reviewed the security footage, which showed a dark-colored car pull into the main entrance of the business the night before. Vible said the dark vehicle and the Mack truck were just out of camera range, so what transpired is not shown on the security footage. He said the dark vehicle turns around and leaves about a minute after entering. Vible said he examined the truck and an employee showed him how the wires leading up to the battery terminals had been cut, which he believed was done using a sawzall type of machine. The owner told Vible he had no disgruntled employees that he knew of and no one had been recently laid off or fired. The owner also said he had no employees he knew of with a drinking, drug, or gambling dependency, but he does wish to press charges for the theft of the batteries and damage to the vehicle. Vible said the owner estimated total property loss, vehicle damage restoration and repair costs to be about $2,150. No suspects.

VEHICLE LARCENY

Officer Javier Cabreja responded to Fairfax Dr. at approximately 4:40 a.m. on March 28 for the report of a larceny from a vehicle. Cabreja said he met with the reporting party, who said she borrowed her daughter’s vehicle, went out to dinner and brought the car to the address on Fairfax Dr. at approximately 9:40 p.m. the night before. The woman said she then went to see a movie and when she returned, never checked her daughter’s vehicle. Prior to her going to the movie theater, she said everything in the vehicle was in order with no damage. When she went back to the vehicle at approximately 4:35 a.m. the next morning, she said she discovered the front passenger side window was smashed and her wallet, described as a Vera Bradley wallet valued at $70, was missing. She told Cabreja she had $100 in U.S. currency and miscellaneous credit and debit cards in her wallet and the window was valued at $300. Cabreja said although the woman wanted to press charges for her daughter, she was unable to do so since her daughter was not on scene. Cabreja said after contacting her daughter on the phone, she told him she wanted to press charges and would fill out a statement. No suspects.

MISSING MONEY

Officer Tammy Mello was dispatched to the lobby of Warwick Police Department headquarters at 12:28 p.m. on March 21 in reference to a larceny from a vehicle. Mello met with the reporting party, who said she works at Wal-Mart, located at 840 Post Rd., and that she worked from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on March 20. When she arrived at work, she said she placed her wallet inside a blue grocery bag with some other personal items and when she returned to her vehicle at the end of her workday, she noticed the wallet was missing. Mello said in her report it should be noted that the woman left work on her lunch break to go to the post office and she believes she forgot to lock her car door at that time. The woman said she had $1,300 cash, her student ID, license, medical cards, and various other store membership cards in her wallet.

DUI

Michael R. Pizzi, 40, of 20 Vincenzo Dr. in Warwick was charged with DUI, refusal and possession of a controlled substance on March 11. Officer Aaron Kay said he was working traffic around the Westgate Condo Complex when a driver told him someone knocked over some traffic cones, hit the mirror of his vehicle and took off south down Quaker Lane. Kay said he got in his car to find the vehicle and encountered a three-car accident near the Wendy’s restaurant at 926 Quaker Lane. He said one of the drivers was identified as the man who hit the car down the street and the driver appeared very nervous and fidgety. Kay said the man was sweating profusely and failed the field sobriety test and was talking nonsense about “lobsters and chairs” as if Kay had asked him about something. He said he put Pizzi in the back seat of his cruiser and called Warwick Rescue because he was concerned about his disoriented demeanor and profuse sweating. Rescue personnel said they thought his clinical signs warranted taking him to the hospital for evaluation. He said he read Pizzi his rights and met with him at the hospital after he did an inventory search of Pizzi’s car before having it towed. He said a cigarette box had a brownish powder and a cutoff straw in it and he confiscated that. He said Pizzi refused to consent to a chemical blood test, although Kay and the doctors believed he was under the influence of some type of stimulant drug. Kay said he left Pizzi in the care of the hospital staff and went to headquarters where he field-tested the substance he found in the car. He said it tested positive for amphetamine. Pizzi was charged with DUI, refusal and felony possession of a controlled sunstance.

Matteo E. Olivastro, 34, of 1471 Warwick Ave. was charged with DUI and refusal on March 8 after Officer James Wenneman arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving around 7:50 p.m.

He said he was dispatched to a two-vehicle accident near 2055 Warwick Ave. The other driver told him she was not injured but she believed that the driver of the pickup truck that hit her had been drinking. He said he approached the pickup and asked Olivastro to step out of the truck after he said he was uninjured and asked him to take a field sobriety test. He said Olivastro told him he was not sober enough to take the test. Olivastro was taken to headquarters where he refused a breath test as well. Olivastro was charged with DUI, refusal and failure to maintain control of his vehicle. Wenneman said he was taken to Kent Hospital for detox after his girlfriend told him she was not going to pick him up.

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  • warwickgirl1

    What happened to the story about the dumbass who hit the pole and took off in the Norwood section of Warwick never said anything about it

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