Police Log

Posted 1/20/15

The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police.

VANDALISM

A man who works for Cox Cable reported that someone broke the right rear window of his work van on Dec. 20. The man …

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The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police.

VANDALISM

A man who works for Cox Cable reported that someone broke the right rear window of his work van on Dec. 20. The man told police he parked the van the night before and returned to find the damage that morning. There were no suspects or witnesses.

LARCENIES

A Coventry woman told police she was at Sam’s Club on Pace Boulevard Dec. 16 when she noticed her cell phone was missing from the carriage she was using. She said the phone was a Note 4 with a purple case and it was worth between $900 and $1,000. She said that she notified T-Mobile and they locked the phone so no one else can use it. They also provided her with a number that prevents anyone from re-activating the phone. There were no suspects or witnesses.

Another Coventry woman reported she was shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond on Dec. 20 when she lost her Samsung Galaxy S5. She said she used it while she was in the store and put it in her coat pocket. She said the store was very crowded at the time. When she was walking to her car she realized her phone was no longer in her pocket. She said she didn’t feel or see it fall. She said she went back inside but could not locate the phone and no employees had turned one in. She believed it was stolen. The phone was worth $700, according to her. No witnesses or suspects.

A Flamingo Drive resident told police his daughter’s Garmin GPS unit, worth $200, was missing from her car after he saw two males inside the car earlier. Police checked the area but found no other break-ins or suspects.

SHOPLIFTING

Officer Eric Lima reports going to Macy’s in the Warwick Mall on Dec. 16 for a shoplifter in custody who was resisting being detained. He said he arrived to find that Officer Matthew Moretti was already on the scene and had subdued and arrested the suspect. Loss prevention told Lima that the suspect had stolen the zip jacket out of a Nautica coat and concealed it inside a North Face jacket before paying for the North Face and walking out of the store. Manuel A. Vera, 22, of 22 Aiken St. in Pawtucket, was charged with shoplifting. A check of his record revealed and outstanding warrant for failure to appear in District Court. He was held for the next session of District Court.

Aida Carlo, 24, of 37 Parker St. in Chelsea, Mass., was charged with shoplifting $116.93 worth of clothing at Kohl’s in the Rhode Island Mall on Dec. 18. Her companion, Shirley Barranco, 26, of 5 Franklin Square in Randolph, Mass., was charged with stealing $356.77 worth of merchandise. The two women were given summonses at headquarters and then a ride back to the Mall, where their car was parked.

DUI AND

REFUSAL

Officer Michael Harris reports that he was on routine patrol in Apponaug around 1 a.m. on Jan. 8 when he saw a car come through a red light and then turn abruptly into the closed gas station at Centerville and Post roads before proceeding west on Centerville Road.

Harris reports he got behind the car and clocked it at 54 mph as it swerved in and out of lanes. He said he pulled the car over at Quaker Lane, and reports the driver’s eyes were bloodshot and watery and she smelled strongly of alcohol even though she said she had only two glasses of wine at the Grid Iron Pub three hours earlier. The officer said he asked the woman to get out of the car and take a field sobriety test and noticed that she staggered as she approached the sidewalk. He said he had to tell her to keep her head still several time as he was checking for nystagmus in her eyes, and that she grabbed his finger at one point, which she was advised not to do. She failed that test. He said she also failed the walk and turn test, and the one-leg stand, which she stopped before she was told to and refused to continue. Tiffany St. Germain, 39, of 21 Elton St. in Coventry, was charged with speeding, laned roadway violations, running a red light, refusal and DUI. She was later released to a sober adult.

Officer Melissa Schlitzer reports she was dispatched to the area of West Shore Road and Oakland Beach Avenue around 12:25 a.m. on Jan. 8 for a suspected drunk driver. She said she saw a car that matched the description turn onto Oakland Beach Avenue and followed it.

Schlitzer said she no sooner got behind the car than it pulled off to the side of the road, even before the cruiser’s flashers were activated. She said she activated her lights and then asked the woman what happened and she reportedly replied, “I think I hit something.” When questioned further about that, the driver reportedly replied, “I don’t remember.”

Schlitzer said the driver had bloodshot, watery eyes and smelled of alcohol. She said the two driver’s side tires on the woman’s car were worn down to the rims, and the outside mirror was completely turned outward and scratched with pine needles in the mirror.

Schlitzer said she asked the driver again what she hit and again the woman replied that she didn’t know, but she knew something was wrong with the car and that is why she stopped. The officer said she gave the woman a field sobriety test, which she failed, and that she asked her for a portable breath test sample, which she refused. The driver was taken to Kent Hospital, where she refused a blood test.

After she was cleared medically, Deborah Ceroni, 20, of 108 Jefferson Drive in Coventry, was taken back to headquarters where she was charged with DUI, refusal and possession of marijuana when the substance in a baggie on the front seat tested positive for it. She was later released to a sober adult.

Officer Russell Brown reports that dispatch sent officers to 233 Sandy Lane around 12:25 a.m. on Jan. 9 for a car on the lawn that was loudly revving its engine. Upon arrival, Brown reports officers found the car sitting on some bushes up on the lawn, but by then the driver had stopped the revving and the car was in “park.”

Brown said he asked the man what happened, and the man reportedly admitted he had been drinking at Dave’s Bar and Grill earlier and had three beers but he almost fell over when he got out of the car. He said the man failed a field sobriety test and was taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test.

Andrew M. Abrams, 31, of 404 Warner Brook Drive in Warwick, was charged with DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult.

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