Police Log

Posted 10/8/15

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

OVERDOSE

On Sunday, Oct. 4 at approximately 10:27 a.m., Officer Jill Marshall responded to 4100 Post Road on a …

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

OVERDOSE

On Sunday, Oct. 4 at approximately 10:27 a.m., Officer Jill Marshall responded to 4100 Post Road on a report of an unresponsive female operator in a car. Upon arrival, Officer Marshall was met by two witnesses who described the woman as unresponsive and possibly deceased. Marshall immediately checked the female victim whose eyes were half-open, pale, and sweaty. Immediately recognizing the symptoms of a possible drug overdose, Marshall retrieved her issued narcan kit and administered it to the victim. By the time the rescue arrived, the female victim’s condition rapidly reversed to the point she was able to speak with Officer Marshall. Warwick Rescue transported the coherent woman to Kent Hospital.

MALICIOUS DAMAGE

On Sept. 21 at 9:30 a.m., Officer Joshua Myer was dispatched to 30 Almy Street for the report of a malicious damage to the Lippitt Elementary School. Upon arrival, Officer Myer spoke with Principal Martin Susla, who said that during the overnight hours, damage was done to the exterior of the building. He said damage usually happens on weekends. He showed Myer the rear of the building, where there was damage to gutters and light fixtures had been broken out. He also pointed out where a large drainpipe had been removed from the building.

Susla provided a written statement, saying, “Outside we have had an increase in vandalism such as broken light fixtures, gutters and drain pipes being ripped off exterior walls and our air condition units being turned off. There [have] been glass bottles on [the] playground and broken [the] in parking lot.”

Officer Myer advised Dispatch to add the Lippitt location to the sheets for increased patrols in the overnight hours.

EMBEZZLEMENT

On Oct. 3 at approximately 12:30 p.m., Officer Russell Brown met with the storeowner of the Sprint store inside Warwick Mall. The owner advised him they have been watching an employee of theirs for approximately a month and a half in regards to money being missing/taken from a safe inside of the Sprint store. He said they had noticed money missing from a safe that they do not have fastened fully inside of the store due to a renovation. He told Brown he observed deposit money to be missing from the safe on the following dates: $600 on Aug. 18; $730 on Aug. 22; $800 on Aug. 28; $480 on Aug. 31; $700 on Sept. 5; $830 on Sept. 7; $1,000 on Sept. 11; $310 on Sept. 19; $420 on Sept. 21; and $840 on Sept. 26.

Based on the money being taken/missing on these dates, the storeowner said he installed a hidden camera in the ceiling directly above the safe. On Oct. 1, he observed video surveillance footage of an employee of his, identified as Zachary Chaput, 26, of 1 George Fernandez Street, Sandwich, Mass., taking a bundle of money ($320) from the safe and leaving the area of the camera’s view. Chaput was then seen returning back to the safe and placing the money ($320) back into the safe. On Oct. 3, the owner was watching the live video feed and observed Chaput taking two bundles of money out of the safe and placing one of them back into the safe, while walking away with the other. Chaput is seen on video walking away with a bundle of assorted bills from the deposit safe, in the amount of $1,200. At this point, the owner called Warwick Police. Officer Brown met with Chaput, who admitted to taking the $1,200 and placing it into his car outside the mall, which he retrieved and gave to Brown. The money was then counted and returned to the storeowner, who wished to file a complaint in regards to the money being taken.

A sergeant then arrived on scene and, based on video surveillance and Chaput’s admission, he was taken into custody and transported to Warwick Police headquarters. Chaput gave both a verbal and written statement indicating that in mid-August of 2015, he was low on money and struggling financially to support his rent and his girlfriend and her two kids. He said he had seen the opportunity to take money from the safe at his work to help him to pay rent, and began doing so from an unknown date in August until the present. Chaput said he is unsure of the exact dates he had taken money from the safe and was also unsure of the exact amount he had taken throughout the course of the last month and a half. Chaput then secured in a cell after being processed, fingerprinted and photographed, with the report being turned over to the officer in charge.

CAR BREAK

On Sept. 29 at approximately 4 p.m., Officer Christian Vargas was dispatched to 122 Pettaconsett Avenue for the report of a larceny from a motor vehicle. Upon arrival, Vargas met with the victim, who said she had left her vehicle parked in her driveway the previous evening at 6 and that he vehicle was unsecured. When she went out to go to work the next morning, she realized her wallet, which had been left in the center console, was gone. She said there was no cash in the wallet, which was described as gold in color with a metal buckle in the middle of it. She said there were two bankcards, her driver’s license, and other IDs in the wallet. She said she had not been alerted to any fraudulent activity on her bankcard and that she had already cancelled her cards. She said nothing else of value was taken and there was no damage to her vehicle. Vargas said it should be noted there were multiple larcenies from motor vehicles in the early morning hours of Sept. 29 in the area. No suspects.

SHOPLIFTING

On Oct. 4 at approximately 4:11 p.m., Officer Patrick Smith and Officer Kenyon were dispatched to Wal-Mart at 840 Post Road for the report of a shoplifting in progress. Upon arrival, the officers were notified that three Hispanic males were in the store concealing items. Officer Maggiacomo arrived on scene at the time to assist.

Smith said he observed three Hispanic males exit the store that fit the description given by Wal-Mart loss prevention personnel. The three were stopped and loss prevention came out and identified them as the subjects who had been concealing items. They were then escorted back into the store. Once inside the loss prevention office, a man identified as Edwin Rodriguez Grullon, 22, of 66 Croyland Road, Providence, said he had taken numerous watches. He rolled up his sleeves and displayed several of them up and down his arms. He also had several watches in his pocket. Smith said there were a total of 15 watches later valued at $152.68. Rodriguez Grullon was taken into custody and transported to Warwick Police headquarters, where he was photographed and fingerprinted.

Smith said Officer Kenyon remained on scene and obtained a written statement from a loss prevention asset protection officer, who said he observed the three males in the store concealing items and that he had noticed they exited the store passing all points of purchase without making any attempt to pay for the merchandise.

Smith said while at headquarters, Grullon was asked if he wanted police to contact his consulate, as he is a citizen of the Dominican Republic and not a U.S. citizen, and he indicated he did not. Grullon was subsequently placed in a cell where he was held for court the next morning.

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