Police Log

Posted 11/13/14

MAILBOX MALICE?

Police went to the Artistic Nails and Spa at 2067 West Shore Rd. for a report of a damaged mailbox on Nov. 9. The owner told police he left the building around 6 p.m. the previous …

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MAILBOX MALICE?

Police went to the Artistic Nails and Spa at 2067 West Shore Rd. for a report of a damaged mailbox on Nov. 9. The owner told police he left the building around 6 p.m. the previous day and found the smashed mailbox when he came to work around 11 a.m. Officer Patrick Smith said he found pieces of the black plastic mail box with a few pieces of broken red glass that seemed to indicate that someone backed into the box. No other information or witnesses or suspects.

SHOPLIFTING

A Warwick woman was charged with stealing 36 items of clothing worth $253 from the Walmart store at Rhode Island Mall on Nov. 5. Loss prevention told police they began to watch two women on closed circuit television as they worked their way through the apparel sections and then housewares, where they took a hamper and concealed all the clothes in it. They were stopped as they attempted to leave the store without paying for the goods they concealed. Carolyn M. Smithson, 48, of 43 Wellington Ave., was charged with stealing the $253 worth of clothing. The woman she was with, Samantha C. Martin, 24, of the same address, was charged with stealing $45 worth. Smithson was released with a summons. Martin was held as a probation violator.

A Warwick man was charged with shopping and possession of a controlled substance on Nov. 1 after Officer Matthew Moretti arrested him at Kohl’s after stopping him in the parking lot and finding eight bottles of cologne that had been removed from their packaging in his pockets, along with a pen that belonged to the store. He said there was a silver pill bottle attached to the suspect’s keys that had four orange pills identified as oxymorphone hydrocloride, a narcotic painkiller. Michael A. Capirchio, 37, of 92 Wilson St., was charged with stealing $392 worth of cologne and possession of a controlled substance.

LARCENIES

A Warwick woman told police she left a pair of pants and a bottle of hair straightener and left them with a friend at the T-Mobile counter in Warwick Mall while she ran an errand. She said a man she did not know went to the woman she left them with and claimed he was a friend of her and took the pants and straightener. They said the items were worth $60 and the man who took them was a tall white male with a goatee, black leather jacket and jeans but he didn’t sound familiar to the woman.

A Brockton, Mass., woman told police he was attending a karate tournament at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Nov. 9 and left her purse in the ballroom around 8:15 a.m. and when she returned at 9 it was gone. The people running the tournament had everybody leave the ballroom at the same time to register outside and when let back in all at the same time that that must have been when someone picked up the purse. Officer Alfred Melucci said he and the Warwick Police Explorers canvassed the property, including the restrooms, looking for the purse with no success. The woman said it contained about $50 in cash and a personal check for $900 for rent from a tenant at a property she owned but she did not have any details regarding the bank it was drawn from. She said a Bank of America debit card was also in the purse. No suspects or witnesses. Melucci said he believed it was a “crime of opportunity.”

On Nov. 5 a woman who lives on Post Road in Pawtuxet reported that a 17-foot red fiberglass Old Town canoe and a sculpture of a white egret about three and a half feet tall with a yellow beak and a fish in its mouth were missing. She said the canoe had “Friends of the Pawtuxet” painted on the side and was worth about $150. The egret was worth $75. No suspects or witnesses.

BOAT BREAK

A boat owner who kept his craft at the Dickerson Brothers Marina on Arnold’s Neck Drive said everything was ship-shape when he last saw the boat in early June but he found that was not the case on Oct. 30 when he found the bridge compartment cover off, the controls torn away, wires cut and a mounted television and GPS unit ripped out. He said the 36-inch television and the GPS were gone but someone left a plug in the drain hole, allowing the boat to fill with water almost to bunk level. No suspects or witnesses.

CAR MISSING

A North Street resident told police he was in bed around 6 a.m. on Nov. 5 when his mother called from upstairs, saying she was just checking to see if he was home because she noticed that the car was not in its usual place. He said he parked the car around 11 p.m. the night before and learned it was gone when his mother called as she was leaving the house to go to work. He said the two-door Honda Civic Coupe was up for sale and several people had come to look at it and perhaps one of those people decided to steal it. No witnesses or specific suspects.

JUSTIFIED

The Attorney General’s office announced yesterday that the Statewide Grand Jury concluded its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Aug. 18 shooting of a suspect on the railroad tracks in Apponaug. They found that officer involved in the shooting of Kenneth Cunningham that left him injured was justified. They said that the actions of a Warwick Police sergeant, a detective and a patrol officer were legally justified. By law, the attorney general cannot release further details surrounding the Grand Jury’s finding. Cunningham was an ex-convict from California who was wanted there for parole violations.

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Aaron Steere reported stopping a car on Route 95 on Nov. 1 that was weaving from lane to lane at high speed around 5 p.m. in spite of the heavy traffic. He said he clocked the car at 85 miles per hour as it continued to ignore his lights and siren until it got to Exit 15. He said the driver appeared to be drunk and smelled strongly of alcohol. Steere said he asked him why he was driving so recklessly and the driver said he didn’t think he was. He said the man failed a field sobriety test and was taken to headquarters, where he registered a .190 and .197 blood alcohol content on the breath test. Enrique Reyes Avila, 31, of 151 Terrace Ave., Cranston, was charged with eluding police, reckless driving, speeding, laned roadway violations and DUI. He was later released to a sober adult.

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