Police Log

Posted 8/19/14

BROKEN WINDOW

An Aurora Drive resident told police she had no idea who would have smashed the rear window on her car sometime overnight on Aug. 6. She said she parked her 2001 Oldsmobile Alero in …

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BROKEN WINDOW

An Aurora Drive resident told police she had no idea who would have smashed the rear window on her car sometime overnight on Aug. 6. She said she parked her 2001 Oldsmobile Alero in the driveway the night before and came out that morning to find the rear window smashed in. No suspects or witnesses.

LARCENIES

Officer Michael Walker reported going to the YMCA on Aug. 3 to take a report of money and an iPhone that were taken from a secured locker in the women’s locker room. She said she noticed that the door to the locker was ajar when she returned to it and a closer look revealed that the lock had been broken off. She said she worked out in the gym between 10:50 and 11:50 a.m. She said $75 in cash and the iPhone worthy $100 were gone. No suspects or witnesses.

Walker reported he was back at the YMCA the following afternoon for another missing cell phone. A man there told him his Samsung Galaxy S3, with a navy blue case and worth $200, was left in his backpack, under a bench, at 8:40 a.m. while he played basketball. He said he returned to find that his phone was gone. No suspects or witnesses.

On Aug. 13, a Warwick woman told police she left her iPhone 4s, with a pink and green Lily Pulitzer flower print case, in her jacket pocket inside an unlocked locker at the YMCA and went to work out in the gym from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. and returned to discover the phone was missing. No suspects or witnesses.

A Cranston woman told police she was at the Showcase Cinema at Warwick Mall between 7:30 and 10 p.m. on Aug. 3 and returned to find that someone got inside her unlocked car and stole her $100 Michael Kors wallet with a $600 payroll check and two debit cards, along with health insurance cards and the Social Security cards for herself and her children. No suspects or witnesses.

A Ryan Avenue woman told police someone took the three-wheeled motorized Harley-Davidson bicycle from her driveway sometime between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Aug. 8. She said her son left the bike there and she only noticed it was gone at 9 p.m. She said the black and gray “trike” was worth $149 but she did not have a serial number for it. No suspects or witnesses.

A Cranston woman came into headquarters around 2 p.m. on Aug. 5 to report that she was shopping at the Kohl’s store in Rhode Island Mall on Aug. 4 when someone apparently took her wallet from her purse. She said she never put the purse down and had it on her shoulder the whole time she was in there and only discovered it was gone after one of her cards was used at a CVS in West Warwick shortly after she left Kohl’s. Loss prevention at the store told police they would check their video surveillance but cautioned that it did not cover every part of the store. Officer Michelle Caron reported she forwarded the report to detectives and heard form a West Warwick detective that they located video from the CVS store that showed a woman using the stolen card. He told Caron he would get back to her if he had further information.

SHOPLIFTING

Loss prevention at the Walmart on Post Road turned a suspect over to police on Aug. 12 and told police they saw the man collecting packages of underwear and shorts in the men’s department that he then concealed in his backpack before leaving the store without paying for the goods. They told police they recovered $80.54 worth of underwear from Thomas J. Watson, 58, of 316 Cranston St. in Providence. He was held on $5,000 surety bail and pleaded no contest to the charge on Aug. 13 and sentenced to four months in jail and probation.

DUI AND REFUSAL

Det. Brenton Groeneveld reported he was on Centerville Road around 7:25 p.m. on Aug. 5 when he heard a dispatch about a suspect in a hit and run traveling in the area of Centerville Road and Apponaug. He said the vehicle was described as a Ford pickup truck with airbags deployed and heading west on Centerville Road. He said he saw a plume of smoke coming from a sliver Ford pickup near Hardig Road. He said it had heavy front-end damage and a flat front tire, which appeared to be the source of the smoke. He said he activated his lights and siren but the pickup kept going until it was behind a semi that refused to pull over and slowed down to a stop with the pickup behind it. He said he ordered the driver out of the car, but he refused and yelled incoherently until Groeneveld undid his seat belt and dragged him out of the truck and he and another officer put him in handcuffs. He said the driver could not stand on his own and was put in a cruiser while they waited for Warwick Rescue to arrive. He said the driver continued to resist police even as he was being treated in the emergency room. He said he refused to submit to a blood test. David A. Gray, 50, of 157 Morningside Dr., Coventry, was charged with DUI, refusal, leaving the scene of an accident, eluding police, laned roadway violations and resisting arrest. He was left in the care of the medical staff at Kent Hospital.

Officer Adam Arico reported he was dispatched to Iggy’s restaurant in Oakland Beach around 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 for a report of a hit and run where the victim of the hit followed the suspect’s pickup truck into the 7-Eleven parking lot. Arico said he spoke with the driver of the pickup who appeared to be drunk and was unsteady on his feet. He said he submitted the driver to a field sobriety test and the driver failed it. He said a portable breath test indicated a .178 blood alcohol content and the driver was taken to headquarters, where he blew a .139 and a .133. Michael R. Diehl, 45, of 253 Tiogue Ave., Coventry, was charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.

Officer Sokphannareth Chea reported he was on West Shore Road at 8:52 p.m. on Aug. 8 when he saw a car swerve over the double yellow line and then into the breakdown lane. He said he pulled the car over at Tidewater Drive. He said the driver smelled of alcohol and appeared to be drunk and admitted he had been drinking at the Warwick Country Club with a friend. Chea said he conducted a field sobriety test on the driver and the driver failed it. The driver was taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. Michael Mournighan, 55, of 33 Brassie Ct., Coventry, was charged with DUI, refusal and laned roadway violations and later released to a sober adult.

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