Police Log

Posted 11/18/14

DUI OR REFUSAL

Officer Jamie Petit reported stopping a red Volvo with heavy front-end damage that was reported to be leaving an accident at Main Avenue and Post Road around 2 a.m. on Oct. 24. He …

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DUI OR REFUSAL

Officer Jamie Petit reported stopping a red Volvo with heavy front-end damage that was reported to be leaving an accident at Main Avenue and Post Road around 2 a.m. on Oct. 24. He said he found the car on Greenwich Avenue near Veterans Memorial Drive in Apponaug. He said he pulled it over into the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot. He said the plate attached was not for an active registration and the driver said he did have an accident and that someone helped him roll his car over onto its wheels after that. He said he 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. Carlton Rotondo, 24, of 311 Olney Arnold Rd., Cranston, was charged with DUI and refusal and later released to the staff at Kent Hospital for evaluation.

Officer Christopher Lo reported clocking a car at 55 in a 25-mile-per-hour zone on Cowesett Road around 8:10 p.m. on Nov. 2. He said he pulled the car over at Sleepy Hollow and Cowesett and approached the driver, who had just lit a cigarette and asked why she was being stopped. He explained that he had her on radar doing 55 and that she almost hit his cruiser. She told him she was on her way home to Connecticut from Coventry and that she was “almost home.” He said her speech was slurred and she appeared to be drunk or high. He said he gave the woman a field sobriety test and she failed it. He said he had to stop it when she almost fell over. She was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. Karissa Putnam, 26, of 213 York Rd., Lebanon, Conn., was charged with speeding, DUI and refusal and held for the next session of District Court.

Officer Aaron Kay reported he was on patrol around 8:10 p.m. on Nov. 2 when he heard about a hit and run with the suspect car leaving the scene at Main Avenue and Sharon Street. The plate number given came back to a Potters Avenue address and Kay said he went there and found the car parked outside. He said there was heavy front-end damage and knocked over trash barrels in front of the car. He said the driver was out with another officer and appeared to be drunk and smelled of alcohol. He said she admitted she had been in an accident but it was not her fault. She said she left because she “just wanted to get to her mom’s house” and did not stay at the scene. He said the other officer told him she was slumped down in the car when he arrived and was trying to hide from him. He said she didn’t seem to know what she was saying at times and could not be understood. He said she admitted taking sleeping pills as well as anti-anxiety drugs and painkillers that day but denied she had been drinking. He said he called off the field sobriety test when she said she could not complete any of the steps because of the medications she took. He said he took her to Kent Hospital because of her level of incapacity. He said she refused to submit to a blood test at the hospital. Barbara V. Ciccone, 53, of 759 Oakland Beach Ave., was charged with DUI, leaving the scene of and accident, refusal and other laned roadway violations and left in the care of the hospital.

Officer Matthew Moretti reported an accident near 650 Bald Hill Rd. around 5:20 p.m. on Nov. 2. Dispatch said the car went off the road into the woods. He said he spoke with the woman who claimed a white SUV forced her off the road, that she was diabetic and shaky. He said he called for Warwick Rescue and continued to talk to her. He said she was keeping her distance from him and she was disheveled and appeared to have soiled her pants. She denied drinking and when he told her she smelled of alcohol, she said she had just used some Purell on her hands. He said he gave her a field sobriety test and she failed it. He said he was unable to get a sample for the portable breath tester but he was convinced she was unfit to drive. Lisa Pinkes, 38, of 1341 Middle Rd., East Greenwich, was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. She was charged with DUI, refusal and failing to yield. She was later released to a sober adult.

Officer Russell Brown reported that around 12 a.m. on Nov. 4, a motorist warned him that a driver on West Shore Road appeared to be drunk. Brown said he immediately turned around and followed the suspect car and watched as it accelerated and swerved erratically before he pulled it over at Brothers Oven Pizza. He said the driver appeared to be under the influence and smelled of alcohol. He said the man admitted to “two beers” and was asked to take a field sobriety test and he failed it. He was arrested and taken to headquarters, where the driver said he was “done” and was going to jump off a bridge when he was released. He said John A. Moosey Jr., 45, of 56 Dayna Dr., West Greenwich, refused to take a breath test and was charged with DUI, refusal and laned roadway violations and then taken to Kent Hospital for detox and evaluation.

PURSE FOUND

A Cranston woman who reported that her car was broken into and her purse taken while she was at Gold’s Gym on Bald Hill Road on Oct. 31, called on Nov. 3 to report the purse was found in the parking lot of the Lowe’s store on Greenwich Avenue that day. She said everything but $20 in cash was still in the purse.

SHOPLIFTING

A Hopkinton woman was charged with stealing $92 worth of jewelry from the JC Penney store in Warwick Mall on Oct. 28. Loss prevention told police they stopped Jacqueline Siler, 21, of 555 Main St., outside the store and recovered the jewelry from her purse.

Det. Edmund Pierce reported he was dispatched to JC Penney on Oct. 27 to take custody of a Providence man that, loss prevention said, took off his own jacket, put on a new winter jacket, tried it on in front of a mirror for a few minutes before he ripped off the tags and walked out of the store without paying for it. Albert Eugene Chace, 25, of 28 Pinehurst Ave., was later released with a summons for District Court. Pierce reported he noticed the man was wearing a TSA uniform and asked him about it. He said the man claimed he was in the recruitment stage and not a full agent (charged with screening passengers in airports).

Anayima Isi Ayeni, 18, of 431 Auburn St., Cranston, was charged with shoplifting at the Sears store in Rhode Island Mall on Nov. 5. Loss prevention told police they saw the man on closed circuit television as he selected a $58 pair of jeans and eventually go to the back of the men’s department and conceal the jeans in his backpack before attempting to leave without paying for them. He was taken to Kent Courthouse and arraigned as a bail violator for a charge of felony breaking and entering and held without bail.

Dawn A. Capparelli, 52, of 225 New London Ave., Cranston, was arrested at Kohl’s in Rhode Island Mall on Nov. 10 and charged with stealing $199.35 worth of jewelry. She was also charged with possession of implements of concealment for the “booster bag” they said she used to steal the goods.

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