Police Log

Posted 9/4/14

LARCENIES

A man from Charlton, Mass., told Officer Thomas Duncan he arrived at the Ponaug Marina around 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 26 and found that his boat had been broken into. He told Duncan he …

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LARCENIES

A man from Charlton, Mass., told Officer Thomas Duncan he arrived at the Ponaug Marina around 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 26 and found that his boat had been broken into. He told Duncan he hadn’t seen the boat since Aug. 23 and everything was in good order then. He then reeled off a list of missing fishing equipment: Two Ugly Stik rods; an Okumo Avenger reel; two Ugly Sticks with Shimano reels; two Penn wire rods with Penn 300 reels; tackle wire; a Penn 50 reel with a Penn Tuna Stick; two Okumo spinning reels; 40 series Penn graphite bait rod; and a Spider Wire tackle box with four rays of miscellaneous items worth a total of $3,000. He said he checked nearby boats but this appeared to be the only one that had been broken into. No suspects or witnesses. He forwarded the report to detectives.

Officer Matthew Higgins reported he was dispatched to the Wal-Mart on Post Road on Aug. 22 for a shoplifting report. Loss prevention said they had video of a suspect with a Keurig coffee machine and two Lego sets walking past the register of the garden department waving some sort of receipt at the cashier as he went out the door and then ran to a car, loaded the goods, jumped in the passenger seat and took off. He said the goods were worth a total of $307.97. No suspects.

GOOD SAMARITAN

Officer James Vible reported he went to the Shell station at 2128 Elmwood Ave. around 8:25 a.m. on Aug. 28 for a report of a missing wallet. The man who lost the wallet told Vible he brought his pickup truck to the car wash bay and left, only to discover that he left his wallet on the change-making machine. By the time he got back to the station, the wallet was gone. He said he got a CD with video of the person who took the wallet. Then dispatch notified him that the man who owned the wallet called to report that the man on the video actually brought the wallet to the owner’s home and the owner called dispatch to inform them that nothing was missing from the wallet. “The wallet had been secured by a good Samaritan,” reported Vible.

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Matthew Moretti reported a call about a possible drunk driver on Main Avenue heading toward Jefferson Boulevard around 11 p.m. on Aug. 21. He said the reporting party said he found a car stopped in the middle of the road at the lights. He said he got out and asked the woman what was going on and she told him she was waiting for the light to turn green. He told dispatch the woman smelled strongly of alcohol and he requested that she pull over into the Greenwood Inn parking lot and she hit the curb with her car while turning. Moretti said he found her still on the road with the motor running when he arrived. He said she had a strong odor of alcohol on her breath and appeared to be drunk. She told him she had only had a few drinks at Chelo’s on the Waterfront. Moretti said he got her out of the car for a field sobriety test and escorted her to the parking lot. He said she could not maintain her balance for the walk and turn test and could not stand on one leg for more than three seconds. He asked her to take a preliminary test with the portable breath analyzer and she refused. She was taken to headquarters where she also refused a breath test. Lisa Villucci, 40, of 95 Brighton Way in Warwick was charged with refusal and DUI and later taken to Kent Hospital for detox when she could not find a ride home.

Officer John Curley reported he found a minivan at the signals at West Natick and Bald Hill Roads around 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 16. He said the van did not move for two cycles of light changes. He said he followed the van on Bald Hill Road for a quarter of a mile as it straddled the lanes before he pulled it over. He said the driver smelled of alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated. He said the driver failed a field sobriety test and was taken to headquarters where he refused a breath test. Nadeem A. Khan, 52, of 1 Lane Four in Coventry was charged with DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult.

BROKEN WINDOWS

Officer James Vible got bad news when the responded to a home on Scranton Avenue around 1:20 p.m. on Aug. 18. The owner of a pickup truck there told Vible he came home from work around 12:30 p.m. and found the driver’s side window of his pickup truck, which he had left in the driveway, had been smashed. Nothing of value was missing from the truck other than the contents of the center console but the owner estimated it would cost $275 to fix the window. Vible said another vehicle down the street had a broken passenger side window but he could not contact the owner to see if anything was missing. A neighbor reported seeing two older juveniles on skateboards in the area earlier that he did not recognize from the neighborhood. The report was forwarded to detectives.

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