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

STOLEN VEHICLE

RECOVERED

On Oct. 12 at 3:44 a.m., Officer Gavin McVeigh was dispatched to the area of Haswill Street. The reporting party said his vehicle had been gone through and as he was scouring the area, he noted a silver vehicle that was running with nobody inside and that the vehicle was on Reynolds Avenue. Officers McVeigh and Cote responded a short time later.

Upon arrival to Reynolds Avenue, McVeigh said he noted a grayish colored Saturn Ion in front of a residence on Reynolds Avenue facing northbound along the east curb. He said the Saturn did not have a front license plate and the back license plate was a Massachusetts registration. McVeigh informed Dispatch of the plate and was told the vehicle had been reported stolen out of Pawtucket. The vehicle was still running. As he looked in the car, McVeigh noted there was a key in the ignition and it was a general mess inside. McVeigh said he put on a pair of latex gloves and opened the driver side door of the vehicle where he turned the vehicle off, visually inspected the inside, where he did not observe anything illegal. He also opened the trunk, where he found two tires and two empty bags, before placing the key back in the ignition. While inside the vehicle, McVeigh said he noted there were fingerprints on the rear view mirror.

McVeigh then requested Officer Cote to conduct a check of the area and surrounding streets for any individuals possibly walking, which was met with negative results. McVeigh said he had Dispatch contact Pawtucket Police, which confirmed the vehicle was stolen but declined to take custody of the vehicle. Dispatch requested that Pawtucket Police contact the victim of the stolen vehicle, which was met with negative results. At which time, McVeigh said a tow was requested.

McVeigh said Officer Cote also spoke with the reporting party, who said he arrived home to his residence on Haswill Street at approximately 2:10 a.m. He said at approximately 2:30 to 2:40, he had gone out to his vehicle to get something to eat at Denny’s and as he went to his car, he noted the that his interior dome light was on and his driver side door was ajar. As he got into the vehicle, he noticed some of his loose change that he keeps in the vehicle to be missing. He said he decided to walk around the neighborhood and surrounding streets, where he observed a Saturn to be running and called 911 to report the incident.

At this time, McVeigh said the Saturn was removed from NCIC as stolen and it was towed. Dispatch will send a letter to the registered owner to inform him where the vehicle will be located. He said he also informed Dispatch to notify Pawtucket Police to leave a message with the victim so they were aware of the vehicle’s location.

SEX OFFENDER

REGISTRATION

FAILURE

Byron Deweldon, 45, of Warwick, has been ordered detained in federal custody on a criminal complaint charging him with failing to register as a sex offender, in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

It is alleged in court documents that Deweldon failed to notify the Warwick Police Department or others of an address change after leaving his Warwick home on Sept. 19, 2015, and traveling to locations in California, Florida, Maryland, Connecticut, Maine and Pennsylvania, all of which have sex offender registry statutes. Deweldon has a valid, non-expiring requirement that he register as a sex offender.

Deweldon’s arrest and detention is announced by United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, U.S. Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth and Warwick Police Chief Colonel Stephen M. McCartney.

According to court records, Deweldon was convicted in May 1995, in Rhode Island Superior Court, on three counts of second degree molestation; in May 1995, in Massachusetts, of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14; in Rhode Island state court in April 2004, of third degree sexual assault; and in 2008, Deweldon was civilly committed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a danger to the public. He was released on Dec. 18, 2014, and moved into a family member’s home in Warwick.

Deweldon was arrested upon his return to Rhode Island last week by members of the U.S. Marshal’s SORNA Task Force, the U.S. Marshals and the Warwick Police Department.

SORNA provides a comprehensive set of federal standards for sex offender registration and notification in the United States through the nationwide network of sex offender registration and notification programs. Additionally, SORNA requires registered sex offenders to register and keep their registration current in each jurisdiction in which they reside, work, or go to school, and to make periodic in-person appearances to verify and update their registration information.

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

CAR BREAKS

On Oct. 12 at about 8:20 a.m., Officer James Vible responded to Sea View Drive for the report of a larceny from a vehicle. The victim reported her husband had parked her car in their driveway around 5 the night before and left the car unlocked. She said the only things missing the next morning were an empty CD case and the woman’s handicap placard #39579. Her husband didn’t know who might have taken the placard, but they wanted to press charges if it could be determined who took it.

Vible said he was then approached by another woman who lives on Sea View Drive, who advised him she also left her vehicle unlocked overnight and discovered her glove compartment door open, but nothing was missing from inside. She said she wanted to make the police aware.

Vible said he then responded to a third location on Sea View Drive and spoke with two women, who both said their vehicles had been parked in the driveway, left unlocked overnight, and appeared to have been rummaged through. Both said papers and glove box contents were strewn about, but they were only missing change from the center consoles. An iPod and other electronic devices were left untouched. Vible said there are no charges pending for the missing change.

Vible said the next address he visited was on Custer Street, where he spoke with a woman that said her vehicle had been ransacked but nothing had been taken. She said numerous tools and electronic devices were left unsecured and had been left untouched. She said she was only missing change. She advised she had come home around 9 p.m. and observed a silver newer model Cutless Solero parked on the side of the US Dollar Mart, 2424 West Shore Road, and that it was closed at the time. She said it was the only thing she noticed out of the ordinary.

Vible said he later responded to a second location on Custer Street and spoke with a woman, who said she had parked her vehicle in the driveway the night before around 9 in good condition and unlocked. She said she came outside the next morning around 10:30 and discovered the following things missing: Her black wallet with ID card, Social Security number card and medical cards from under her driver’s seat, an old gray GPS (unknown make/model), and a number of pills missing from her prescription container that had been left inside the vehicle. She said she doesn’t know who took her items but wants to press charges. Later that day at about 2:30 p.m., Vible said he retrieved the woman’s stolen wallet and its contents, which consisted of her driver’s license and medical cards, from the front yard of a residence on Reynolds Avenue. The resident there informed Vible loose change had been taken out of her vehicle, but that nothing else had been touched. Vible said he returned the wallet to the woman on Custer Street.

Vible said a man at a third location on Custer Street also reported his vehicle had change removed, but that all CDs and electronic equipment had been left intact inside his vehicle. Vible said the man is not pursuing charges.

Vible said there was nothing to process on any of the vehicles. The case was forwarded to Detectives.