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Posted 10/7/14

BILGE PUMP STOLEN

Officer Darren Parillo reported he went to West Marine on Bald Hill Road around 1:40 p.m. on Sept. 25 for a report of a theft that had occurred the day before. A clerk there told …

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BILGE PUMP STOLEN

Officer Darren Parillo reported he went to West Marine on Bald Hill Road around 1:40 p.m. on Sept. 25 for a report of a theft that had occurred the day before. A clerk there told him a man came in to the store and headed for the plumbing aisle, where he began to pick things up and put them down nervously and was unreceptive to offers of help in finding what he was looking for. The clerk said he stayed near the man as he looked around and then asked about two bilges pumps and how they differed. The clerk said he went to wait on another customer as the other customer picked up a bilge pump and went down another aisle. He said an associate told him the man had left the store and the $225 bilge pump was gone. He said the blond man, who was about 20 to 25-years-old, left in a black Volvo. The clerk gave Parrillo a copy of their surveillance video and told him they believed the same man took a macerator pump worth around $160 about two weeks before. They were advises to call police immediately if the man returned.

HV/AC THEFTS

Officer Nicholas DiNardo reported a heat pump condenser had gone missing from Mutual Engineering on Stafford Street some time overnight on Oct. 1. The employee told DiNardo the pump was last seen the day before. She said the pump was worth $658. No suspects or witnesses.

Officer Brian Murray had a similar call at Net Cenergy on Elm Street on Oct. 4. An employee told Murray he came to work that day and found that someone had removed a large air conditioner condenser from the rear of the building. The employee said he last saw the condenser the day before, a round 6 p.m. Murray said there were pieces of the condenser left on the ground. He told Murray there were cameras on an adjacent building but he would not be able to view it until later and see if there were any pictures of suspects. No witnesses or suspects at the time.

MISSING PLOW PUMP

A Whalen Avenue man told Officer Jacob Elderkin he came out of his house the morning of Oct. 3 and noticed that the hydraulic plow pump that had been mounted on the front of his 1991 Jeep Cherokee was missing. He said there was a lock on the pump that operated the plow but the suspect or suspects took the pump from the front of the Jeep and left the lock behind. He told Elderkin the plow pump cost about $800. No suspects or witnesses.

SHOPLIFTING

Two women were arrested at the JC Penney store in the Warwick Mall on Sept. 30 and charged with shoplifting. Nicole L. Decosta, 19, of 50 Begonia St. in Cranston, and Angelina R. Andreoli, 19, of 351 Simmonsville Ave. in Johnston were stopped outside the store and brought back inside where loss prevention said they recovered one item from Decosta that was worth $31 and two items from Andreoli worth a total of $76.29. They were later released with summonses.

Janoy Shaw, 20, of 14 Hillary St. in providence was charged with stealing three items worth a total of $172 from Macy’s in the Warwick Mall on Sept. 30. He was taken to headquarters where he was charged with shoplifting and held for the bail commissioner. He was later released on $1,000 surety bail. He was also told he would be arrested for trespassing if he came to Macy’s again.

Officer Dale Drowne reported he was dispatched to the Ulta store at 1350 Bald Hill Rd. Dispatch said store personnel was keeping an eye on a woman who, employees told dispatch, had concealed a number of fragrances and was still in the store. Drowne said he arrived and a clerk indicated the woman in question without saying anything. Drowne said he was about 12 feet away from the woman when he said, “I would like to speak with you,” which prompted the woman to run out the door with Drowne in pursuit. He said he caught up with her near the traffic light on Route 2 and attempted to put handcuffs on her but she spun around and tried to get away. He said he got her in an arm bar and forced her to the ground. He said a female officer arrived to search the suspect and found 13 bottles of perfume worth a total of $1,088. Ashley Marie Ferreira, 25, of 33 Tecumseh St. in Fall River was processed and then taken to Kent Hospital when she complained that her asthma was making it hard to breath.

PUFFIN’ STUFF

Officer Geoffrey Waldman reported being dispatched to the Stop& Shop gas station on Sandy Lane for a drug violation in progress around 3 p.m. on Sept. 29. Dispatch said someone called to report that a driver and passenger were huffing out of aerosol cans and that the driver appeared to have passed out before he came to and began huffing the can again. While Waldman was on the way, dispatch reported that they left the gas station and were heading west on Sandy Lane and then into a head-on collision with another car. He said the man was removed from the car and given a field sobriety test, which he passed before complaining of neck and back pain. He said Rescue took the man to Kent Hospital while police gathered evidence from the vehicle. Waldman reported they found four cans of Dust-off aerosol cleaner, normally used to blow dust and debris from computer keyboards and other electronic devices but abused by people who inhale it to get high on the propellant’s fumes. Paul M. Hartell, 60, of 119 Burns St. in Providence, and Dawn Duquette, 26, of 5 Levesque Dr. in Smithfield, were charged with the illegal use of toxic vapors.

VANDALS

Officer James Wenneman took a report of a Warwick Avenue resident who said he heard a car pull into his driveway around 7:45 p.m. on Oct. 3 and he saw a black Ford Crown Victoria with tinted windows, black wheels and bright blue headlights. He said he then heard a popping noise before the car back out onto Warwick Avenue again and headed north. He said he went outside and saw that the rear window of his car’s hatchback had been shot with a pellet of some sort. Wenneman said it wasn’t shattered but cracked in a spider-web pattern. The man said he had no idea who or why someone would want to damage his car.

Officer Joshua Myer reported going to the Warwick Assembly of God on Sandy Lane on Sept. 28 for a report of property damage. One of the board members for the church said that, some time over night, someone destroyed a portable basketball hoop and a lighthouse-shaped light post in front of the church. A neighbor alerted the board member of the damage. He told Myer the basketball hoop cost $597 and the lighthouse cost about $1,500. There were no suspects or witnesses.

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Javier Cabreja reported a call about a man at a gas station who was obviously drunk and driving from the Shell station on Greenwich Avenue around 3:20 a.m. on Sept 21. An attendant told Cabreja he headed east onto Main Avenue and Cabreja caught up with the car and pulled it over near Gertrude and Groveland Avenues. He said the driver appeared to be intoxicated and was not wearing any shoes. He said he gave the man a field sobriety test and he failed it. Cabreja said they stopped the test during the walk and turn segment for the driver’s safety because it appeared he would fall down if not held up. He was taken to headquarters where he refused to take a breath test. Michael Mabry, 51, of 408 Sandy Lane was charged with DUI and refusal and then transported to Kent Hospital for detox.

Officer John Curley reported he was dispatched to Fair Street around 9:50 p.m. on Sept. 26 for an intoxicated male who was possibly going to hurt himslef. He said they arrived to find a pickup truck attempting to back out of the driveway for about 10 feet before he halted it and had the driver put the car in “park.” He said the driver looked at him and said, “What the [expletive]…What are you [expletives] doing here?” Curley said he was there because someone called and was afraid he might hurt himself and then asked the man if he did want to hurt himself. He said he did not and that he was just mad at his girlfriend. Curley said he smelled strongly of alcohol and appeared to be drunk. He said he asked him if he had been drinking and the man said, “Yeh, I’m [expletive] hammered.” He said he asked him to take a field sobriety test and he refused, saying, “Go [expletive] yourself, I’m in my own driveway. I’m not taking your [expletive] test,” but eventually agreed to do it, and then refused again, and swore at him again, according to Curley. Curley said he arrested Roland F. Anderson, 55, of 491 Fair St., and took him to headquarters where he refused to take a breath test. He was charged with DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult.

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