Police Log

Posted 7/17/14

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Christian Vargas reported a call about a DUI in progress on the Post Road Extension around 11 p.m. on June 30. The caller said a white Nissan was doing 70 miles per hour in …

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DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Christian Vargas reported a call about a DUI in progress on the Post Road Extension around 11 p.m. on June 30. The caller said a white Nissan was doing 70 miles per hour in the breakdown lane on Post Road and the witness was following it. Vargas said he saw the car and began to follow it and it slowed down to around 30 miles per hour until he pulled it over near 1600 Post Rd. He said the driver appeared to be nervous and smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. He said he gave the driver a field sobriety test and she failed it. He said she was given a portable breath test and registered a .171 blood alcohol content. Danielle S. Beaudoin, 32, of 120 Lyman Ave., Warwick, was charged with DUI and refusal when she refused to take a breath test at headquarters.

Officer John Larivee was on patrol on Post Road around 12:30 a.m. on June 28 when he stopped a car for operating erratically. He said the operator told him he was eating and that was why he was driving erratically, but Larivee said he looked intoxicated and smelled of alcohol. He said he gave the driver a field sobriety test and the man failed it. The driver was taken to headquarters, where he registered a .163 and .165 blood alcohol content. Larivee said he also discovered a small amount of marijuana in the car and Samuel E. White, 58, of 261 Taft St., Warwick, was charged with DUI and possession of marijuana and later released to a sober adult.

Officer Jeffrey Taranto reported finding a woman slumped over the console of a 2013 Toyota in the parking lot of Car Works on Warwick Avenue around 1:45 a.m. on July 5. He said the engine was running and the car was in reverse. He said they attempted to wake the woman up, and when they did she started driving in reverse for about 20 feet before she turned the engine off. He said they pulled her out as soon as she unlocked the doors. He said she was unaware of her surroundings and there was a half empty bottle of cognac in the cup holder. He said the driver failed a field sobriety test and she was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. Brittany M. Sharbuno, 20, of 5966 NW Brenda Circle, Port St. Lucie, FL, was charged with DUI and refusal.

Officer Rose Michel reported stopping a car for running a red light on Warwick Avenue around 1:45 a.m. on June 26. She said the driver denied he ran a red light and said she had no evidence that he did. She said she gave him a field sobriety test and he refused to cooperate with the nystagmus portion and failed the rest of the test. He was taken to headquarters, where Michel said he asked what she would do if he got violent and she called for another officer. She said he continued to think that they were in Cranston and then refused to take the breath test at headquarters. Wilson Xiong, 32, of 91 Sackett St., Providence, was charged with DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult.

Sgt. Stephen Fernandez stopped a car for operating erratically on Airport Road around 1:25 a.m. on July 6. He said the car was weaving from lane to lane before he stopped it in the parking lot of Dave’s Market. He reported he had Officer Rose Michel conduct a field sobriety test on the driver and the driver failed it. She reported that Lucien Mistivar, 39, of 1811 Warwick Ave., refused a breath test at headquarters and was charged with DUI and refusal. He was later released to a sober adult.

Officer Stephen Major reported he was on a DUI detail around 11:40 p.m. on July 3 when he fell in behind a car that was doing 45 miles per hour in a 35 miles per hour zone of Bald Hill Road. He said he pulled the car over and observed that the driver appeared to be intoxicated and smelled of alcohol. He said he administered a field sobriety test and the driver failed it and was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. Justeen E. Houle, 28, of 59 Chiswick Rd., Warwick was charged with speeding, DUI and refusal and later released to sober adults.

NEW SCAM IN TOWN

Officer William DiGiulio reported meeting a woman in the lobby of headquarters who suspected she was a target for a scam. The 45-year-old woman said she got a voice mail message informing her that there was an outstanding warrant out for her for failure to appear for jury duty and that she would have to pay $900 to have the warrant lifted. The caller said his name was Carl Jones and he was with the Kent County Sheriff’s Office at 670 New London Ave. in Cranston. The woman told DiGiulio she returned the call and the man told her she needed to purchase a Green Dot card at Dollar Tree to pay for the fine. She told DiGiulio she asked him why it was such a high fine and hinted that she might not have enough money and he suggested that $700 would be enough for now. She said she suspected a scam and called her lawyer, who told her it was indeed an ongoing scam in the area. DiGiulio said the woman’s phone rang while he was talking with her and he took the call. He said the man repeated what he told the woman and that he was at 670 New London Ave. DiGiulio asked him if he could meet him at Warwick Police Headquarters and the man hung up. DiGiulio said he was filing the report for informational purposes.

FRAUD CHARGED

A Warwick woman viewed surveillance video from the 7-Eleven store at 2080 Warwick Ave. on July 10 and identified the woman seen using her stolen credit card to buy cigarettes and coffee. Police said Sandra D. Gallagher, 42, of 28 Haswill St., Warwick, admitted she took the card from a local shelter where she was volunteering when she saw it sitting on top of a pocket book in the kitchen and took it. She also admitted she bought gas with the card but did not remember a third purchase she made before she threw the card away. She was charged with larceny under $1,500.

PHONY PLATES

Officer Manuel Pacheco said he pulled over two motor scooters on West Shore Road on July 12 after suspecting something amiss when they both sported the same registration plate number. He said one of the riders, identified as Anderson Delpino, 29, of 224 Silver Spring St., Providence, had no license or registration of the scooter he was riding and the plate number that both scooters were sporting belonged to one motorcycle, a white Harley-Davidson that was expired. He said there was also an outstanding warrant for Delpino from District Court. He was also found to be in possession of marijuana. He was charged with possession, counterfeiting license plates, and driving an unregistered motor scooter without a license. Delpino was unable to make bail and was transported to the ACI to await arraignment.

BAD CHECK

Officer Stephen Major reported he was dispatched to the Citizens Bank in the Stop & Shop on Greenwich Avenue on July 14 for a forgery in progress. Dispatch said a man presented a teller with a Cranston Housing Authority check for $2,317.77 that appeared to be fraudulent. They told dispatch they would delay the suspect as long as they could, and Major said the man was still there when he arrived. He arrested the man and spoke with the bank manager. She told Major that her teller suspected the check and alerted her and she in turn alerted Cranston Housing and was told it was a phony check. The manager told Major she point blank asked the man where he got the check and he candidly told her that some “guys in a black car gave him the check and told him he would get half the money if it and [a] job cleaning house.” Major said the director of Cranston Housing told him it was one of three fraudulent checks presented to as theirs. Michael Scott, 55, of 292 Elmwood Ave., Providence, was charged with forgery and counterfeiting in general and held for the bail commissioner.

SHOTS FIRED

The Warwick Police Department received a report of a male firing a gun in the parking lot of the Motel 6 at 20 Jefferson Blvd., next to Interstate 95. When police arrived, the suspect, identified as Robbie Zeigler, 39 years old, of Cranston, retreated to one of the hotel rooms and barricaded himself inside.

Police said that Zeigler had a fight with his wife but they were not sure if he actually fired the gun at her. The Warwick SWAT team and a negotiator were summoned to the scene, and Zeigler surrendered after an hour and a half of negotiations. He was charged with possession of a loaded revolver without a permit, using a firearm while committing a crime of violence and domestic assault with a dangerous weapon. He is being held without bail and undergoing evaluation and pretrial counseling.

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