Police Log

Posted 9/25/14

CITY PARK BREAKS

At least four vehicles were broken into or vandalized in City Park between Sept. 19 and 20. A 46-year-old Urban Avenue woman said she went running in the park on Sept. 19 and …

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CITY PARK BREAKS

At least four vehicles were broken into or vandalized in City Park between Sept. 19 and 20. A 46-year-old Urban Avenue woman said she went running in the park on Sept. 19 and returned to her mini van about 35 minutes later and found the rear driver’s side window with holes in it, where someone tried to get into the van. She didn’t report anything missing and there were no witnesses or suspects.

A 26-year-old woman from Washington Street returned to her car and noticed that her handbag was gone on Sept. 20. She said it contained her license, two store credit cards, a debit card, 12 Providence Bruins tickets worth $240, a $200 silver claddagh ring, a silver spoon ring worth $200, $35 in cash and an emerald ring worth $200 were in the bag. No suspects or witnesses.

The same day, a Smithfield man said he parked his car in the park and came back to a broken passenger side window but nothing was missing from his vehicle.

A West Warwick woman said she returned to her car and found the passenger side window broken and her purse missing. She said she had her IDs, AAA card and FedEx identification card in the purse, along with $353 in cash. No suspects or witnesses.

RENT GONE

A West Warwick woman told police she went shopping in the Target store at 1245 Bald Hill Road on Sept. 14 and was packing her purchases into her trunk before she left the parking lot and realized she left her purse in the shopping cart. She said she immediately called the Target store and told them about it and went back to the lot. The purse was gone and there were no witnesses. She said her credit cards, license and passport and $4,700 in rent money she had just collected from her tenants were in the purse. Officer Jacob Elderkin said the loss prevention people at the store had video of the suspects and gave him a DVD. He said the scene is far away but you can see a male subject get out of a car and grab the purse and then drive toward the store again before it drove away entirely. Unfortunately, Elderkin could not read the license plate on the car. He said there were two women and a white male in the car. He forwarded the case to detectives to see if they could enlarge what was on the DVD.

LARCENIES

A man who lives on Coburn Street told police he discovered a metal ladder and garden cart, a five-gallon bucket with garden tools in it and nine tomato plants and mums and six tomato plant holders, a wooden chair and two plastic swans went missing from his yard. He said he went to Newport on Sept. 7 and returned on Sept. 16 to discover the apparent theft. He said the house is for sale and there have been a number of people in and out, but the realtor and landscape people said they saw nothing unusual.

A Baldwin Road resident told police he was charging his boat’s battery in his backyard and when he went back to see how it was going he noticed that the $150 battery was gone. He said his wife mentioned seeing an unknown man near the house earlier and some neighbors mentioned a bald stranger with a green BMW had been seen a number of times. Officer Nicholas Reay notified dispatch to have the various shifts of officers keep an eye out for the stranger and forwarded his report to detectives.

A resident of the Cowesett Hills Apartments told police he returned to his 2013 Honda Accord around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 14 and found all four tires and rims had been removed. He told police they were worth between $1,500 and $2,500. No suspects or witnesses.

A Wakefield man told police he was in Goddard Park on Sept. 22 to take a run and returned to his car a half hour later to discover his iPhone was missing. He said it was a 5S model and was worth around $200. No suspects or witnesses.

Police went to Sullivan Tire on Jefferson Boulevard on Sept. 8 for a report of a container of tires gone missing. The owner of the container said he dropped the container off on Saturday, Sept. 6, and the manager at Sullivan Tire called him that Monday to say it wasn’t there. The container was used to collect used tires for recycling. It cost about $4,000 empty but had about $500 worth of used tires in it when it went missing. No suspects or witnesses.

D’Ambra Construction called police on Sept. 17 to report that the batteries for a portable message board that was placed on Route 37 were missing when workers arrived that morning. They said the four batteries cost about $150. No suspects or witnesses.

About $100 worth of copper pipe went missing from a vacant house on Cavalcade Boulevard on Sept. 9. An agent for the bank that owns the house told police he came to check it out and said pipes under the kitchen sink were gone. He said they were worth around $100. No suspects or witnesses.

DUI AND REFUSALS

Officer Charles Austin reported clocking a car doing 49 miles per hour on Main Avenue around 12:25 a.m. on Sept. 7. He said he gave the driver a field sobriety test that he failed and he took him to headquarters, where he registered a .213 and a .214 blood alcohol content on the breath test. Michael A. Ayotte, 23, of 26 Cowesett Ave. in West Warwick, was charged with DUI, speeding and having an open container of Captain Morgan Private Stock while driving. He was later released to a sober adult.

Officer Matthew Moretti reported he was on Route 95 around 10:15 p.m. on Sept. 16 when he saw a Toyota 4Runner change lanes abruptly, slam on its brakes, change lanes, slam on its brakes, and repeat that until Moretti pulled him over. He said the driver had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol but, because the driver could not speak English, Moretti asked another officer to join him and Officer Christian Vargas arrived to translate. He said the man failed the field sobriety test, and Vargas explained to him that he was under arrested for suspicion of DUI. Officer Vargas administered the breath test at headquarters and said Luis Escobar Lopez, 31, of 11.5 Newport Ave., Newport, blew a .262, a .241 and a .251 blood alcohol content on the breath test. He was charged with DUI and later released to a sober adult.

Officer Albert Marano reported an accident at Warwick Avenue and Airport Road around 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 14. He said he asked one driver what happened and the driver admitted he ran the red light and hit another car. He said the driver smelled strongly of alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated. He said he escorted the man to the parking lot of Dave’s and administered a field sobriety test. He said the driver failed the field sobriety test and it was stopped for his own safety. He said Thomas E. Whitley, 55, of 206 Sheridan St., North Easton, Mass. was taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. He said Whitley was charged with DUI and refusal. He said Whitley refused to sign the tickets and, because he lived out of state, he was held for the bail commissioner.

Officer John Zaborski reported he was on patrol around 11:55 p.m. when dispatch warned of a possible drunk driver on West Shore Road near George Arden Avenue. He said he saw the suspect car and turned around to follow it. He said he saw it swerve out of its lane and pulled it over near George Arden Avenue. He said he asked the woman who was driving where she was going and she said “623 Pontiac Ave. in Cranston.” He said she smelled strongly of alcohol and she admitted she had been drinking and also said she smoked marijuana about 30 or 45 minutes before. He said he gave her a field sobriety test and she failed it. He was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. Markea Smith, 21, of 632 Pontiac Ave., Cranston, was charged with DUI, refusal, driving without a license and laned roadway violations.

Officer Matthew Moretti reported clocking a car at 100 miles per hour on Route 95 around 9:55 p.m. on Sept. 17. He said he was clocking the car when he saw it swerve out of its lane and continue to speed down the highway in spite of his lights and sirens right through a construction zone without slowing down until it almost hit the jersey barriers between the north and south lanes. He said Lawrence D. Erice, 55, of 355A Hopkins Hill Rd., Coventry, smelled of alcohol and appeared to be drunk. He said Erice failed a field sobriety test and blew a .166 on the portable breath tester but refused to take another breath test at headquarters. He was charged with speeding, laned roadway violations, DUI, second offense, and refusal. He was later released to a sober adult.

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