The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Cranston Police.

THE FALLEN TREES

There has been a number of trees damaged by high winds earlier this month, resulting in damage to cars parked near or under them. At 7:35 a.m. on Dec. 3 a branch from a tree on Crescent Avenue landed on a nearby car, causing what was described as minor damage. At 8:19 another branch fell on Watkins Avenue and landed on a fence, after it pulled the wiring from the pole and house. It landed in the roadway and a tree service was summoned to remove it. At 9:55, Cranston Fire personnel went to Whiting Road to keep an eye on a live wire that was ripped from a pole and a house until National Grid arrived to repair the wire. Winds brought down two more branches on Dec. 9. An Elmwood Avenue resident called police around 1:20 p.m. and showed them a fallen branch that hit his 1999 Volkswagen Jetta. The car had damage to the hood and a cracked sunroof. Police took a picture to document the damage for insurance purposes. Police were dispatched to Coolspring Road around 3 p.m. later that day for a report of a tree that fell from a side yard into the street. A 2003 silver Nissan sustained damage to its rear end, right side, roof and hood. A 1997 brown Jeep had damage to its side, windshield and hood. The owner of the house told police she had already called her insurance company. An officer took pictures of the tree and the cars before Cranston DPW was contacted to clear the limbs that struck the cars. The tree itself fell inside the yard, so a private contractor was called to remove it.

PROFILE

Officer Andrew Henault said he was on patrol around 11:20 a.m. on Dec. 4 when he saw a car going south on Reservoir Avenue when a white Buick passed him and then pulled in front of him in the right lane. He said the outside mirror on the driver’s side was dangling by a wire and swinging around and hitting the side of the car. He ran the plate on the car prior to stopping it and it came back as a suspended registration and the owner of the car had a suspended driver’s license. He said he also found an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in District Court and he pulled the vehicle over. Henault said he confirmed that it was the owner of the car that was driving and informed her of why she was stopped. He said she was argumentative and accused Henault of racial profiling and refused to get out of the car. He said he told her numerous times to get out of the car before she complied. Henault said he learned that the same driver was stopped the day before for the warrant and had already been in court about that, so she was just charged with driving an unregistered car and driving on a suspended license and issued a summons for District Court. Henault said the woman was visibly provoked by the situation and argued with Henault and another officer.

CLAWED

Officer Matthew Davis reported he went to the Mardi Gras nightclub on Oaklawn Avenue for a detail on Dec. 5. He said he was at the door around midnight when the head bouncer approached him with blood dripping down his right cheek. Davis said the bouncer told him he was attacked when he was escorting a disorderly female out of the bar. He said she turned on him and scratched his face. Davis said the bouncer pointed out the woman he said attacked him and she was arrested for simple assault and disorderly conduct. Renee M. Beamier, 39, of 2 Lister St. in Warwick was later released on $1,000 personal recognizance.

WHY THEY GET CAUGHT

Officer Randall Babcock reported stopping a car on Broad Street around 11 a.m. on Dec. 4 for having an expired inspection sticker. He said the driver turned out to have all the papers up to date and was issued a warning about the sticker. One of his passengers, Thomas Lee Dontario Lumpkins, 21, of 691 Chalkstone Ave. in Providence had an outstanding warrant out of Superior Court. Lumpkins was arrested and later transported to the ACI.

FALSE ALARMS

Officer Matthew Josefson was dispatched to 25 Buxton Dr. around 5 p.m. on Dec. 6 for a residential “hold-up alarm.” Josefson said he checked the perimeter of the house and found nothing suspicious and couldn’t see anyone except a dog inside the house. He said snow surrounded the entire perimeter of the house and there were no footprints in the snow. No one answered the door after multiple doorbell rings. He said he had the alarm company attempt to contact a resident but no one answered that phone. Josefson said he was informed that Cranston police responded to the residence on Sept. 8, Nov. 19 and three days before on Dec. 3. Josefson said he and his supervisor determined that a forced entry into the house would not be necessary.