Police Log

Posted 10/28/14

MISSING MAILBOX

A Horseneck Road resident complained to police that his mailbox was stolen for the second time within a month. He said he didn’t report the first theft and just replaced the …

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MISSING MAILBOX

A Horseneck Road resident complained to police that his mailbox was stolen for the second time within a month. He said he didn’t report the first theft and just replaced the mailbox with a new one. He discovered the second mailbox was missing on Oct. 14. He said the first mailbox cost about $40 and the second one only $14, but it seems the thief takes the whole box off the pole and leaves the pole intact. He said he doesn’t have any enemies he’s aware of and has no idea who is taking the boxes.

CAR LARCENIES

A Warwick couple told police they had dinner at the Olive Garden on Universal Boulevard on Oct. 16 and returned to their vehicle to find a broken window and a $950 iPod gone missing, along with a $700 ladies pocketbook. No suspects or witnesses.

A man from Exeter told police he was in the PetSmart store on Bald Hill Road on Oct. 15 and returned to his vehicle and was loading his infant son into the car when an older woman who walked out of the store with him, and had been making small talk, was nowhere to be found after he discovered his wallet was missing from his shopping cart. He said credit cards and around $50 in cash were in the wallet.

A Warwick woman told police she was shopping at the Target store in Warwick Mall around noon on Oct. 13 and left her car in front of the store. She said she came back to the car to find her wallet was missing and went back inside the store to look for it. The cashier that waited on her was already gone and managers said they would review the video surveillance later that day. She told police she had two bank cards, a credit card and two checks made out to her for $243. She said there was about $200 in cash. No suspects or witnesses.

A resident at the Villa Del Rio Apartments on Greenwich Avenue told police he came out to his 2013 Buick on Oct. 16 and found it propped up on plastic crates and all its wheels gone and all the lug nuts lying on the ground. No suspects or witnesses.

STOLEN CAR

A Vanderbilt Road resident told police he heard his car alarm go off around 4 a.m. He said he woke up, shut it off and went back to bed, thinking that trains that pass through the back of the neighborhood had set the alarm off. He said the next morning he found his 2005 Mercury was missing and that the spare keys for it were missing from his other car, a 2014 Mazda. He said his GPS unit was also missing and that his neighbor’s car had been entered but nothing was taken. No suspects or witnesses.

ELECTRIC THEFT

Police took a report of three truck batteries that were stolen from vehicles at the Artic Tool and Engineering Company on Ford Lane on Oct. 20. The owner told police he came to work around 10 a.m. and noticed that the three batteries from the work trucks were missing. No suspects or witnesses.

A National Grid employee came into police headquarters to report that he found the lock to a fence on Electronic Drive had been cut on Oct. 21 and saw that the two ground wires for the equipment there had been removed. Officer Brian Murray noticed that it was next door to the tool company that was missing batteries the day before and made a note for police to do more frequent checks in that area.

MISSING DOORS

New England School Services on Greco Lane showed police video of a man and a woman taking six doors and other materials worth around $300 from the business on Oct. 16. The video showed a male and female, around 40 to 50 years old, putting the materials in a white rack body truck. They told police this has happened many times and they wanted them identified and charged with theft. The video will be forwarded to detectives.

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Aaron Kay reported he was on patrol on Warwick Avenue around 9:50 p.m. on Oct. 18 when he started to follow a car that was driving north erratically. He said he watched it swerve from lane to lane before he pulled it over near Post Road. He said he had to use several siren tones to get the driver’s attention and followed it onto Post Road, where it finally pulled over. He said the driver started at him blankly and appeared to be drunk. He said his eyes were bloodshot and he smelled of alcohol. He said he asked the driver to take a field sobriety test. He said the driver told him he had several medical issues and some medications he took but nothing to keep him from taking the test. He said he failed the first step in the test and refused to continue. He was arrested and taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. John Cotter, 61, of 50 Western Promenade, Cranston, was charged with refusal and DUI and laned roadway violations and later released to a sober adult.

Officer Michael Harris reported he was on patrol on Bald Hill Road around 1 p.m. on Oct. 21 when he saw a car changing lanes erratically and almost hit a car it was attempting to pass. He said he pulled the car over on Cowesett Road. He said the woman smelled strongly of alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated. He said she stumbled as she walked toward him for a field sobriety test. He said she began to cry and tell him he was ruining her life. He said she failed the test and was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. He said she was charged with DUI, refusal, driving without insurance and laned roadway violations. He said she again told him he was ruining her life and crumpled up the summons and threw it in her pocketbook and said she did not care if she couldn’t read the dates. Harris said Leah M. Paquin, 31, of 72 Gough Ave., West Warwick, was later released to a sober adult, who told Harris she would take care of the summons and remind Paquin of the dates.

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  • BobbyTownsend

    Value your valuables. Lock in a trunk if you have to. Leaving these in plain sight for a thief is never a good thing.

    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Report this