Police Log

Posted 2/12/15

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

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Officer Gregory Johnson went to Gregg’s Restaurant on Post Road around 3 p.m. on Feb. 6 to take a report of a …

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

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Officer Gregory Johnson went to Gregg’s Restaurant on Post Road around 3 p.m. on Feb. 6 to take a report of a missing camera. The owner of the camera, a 17-year-old Johnston youth, told Johnson he hid the camera under the back seat of the car they came in and went inside around noon. He said he returned at 3 p.m. and found the door was not locked and suspects they may have left the door unlocked or not fully closed. Whatever, the $1,300 Nikon DSLR with an 18-140 lens and case were gone. He said the camera had a 32-GB memory card in it that cost $80. There were no suspects or witnesses. Johnson said he gave the owner a number to call with serial number information that was left at home.

MALICIOUS

Officer Gregory Johnson went to the office of Edible Arrangements on Post Road the morning of Feb. 7 for a report of vandalism. The owner told him someone had broken the passenger side mirror off his 2012 Ford Transit van. Johnson said he examined the damage and found the mirror hanging by a wire after being broken from the base. Johnson said it didn’t look as if the mirror was knocked off accidentally and he found a surveyor’s stake nearby that he believed was used to hit the mirror forcefully on the top and deliberately separate it from the van. There were no suspects or witnesses and no other vehicles parked in that parking lot had been damaged. He estimated it would cost $200 to fix.

SHOPLIFTING

A Warwick woman was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting at the J.C. Penney store in Warwick Mall on Feb. 6. Loss prevention told police they saw her take a ring out of a box and put it on her finger and then visit several other departments before putting a glove over her hand and walking out of the store without paying for the $26 ring. Suzana Pona, 39, of 51 Mellon Rd., Warwick, was processed and held for the bail commissioner.

FELONY

SHOPLIFTING

Officer Julio Benros reported arresting a shoplifter at the T.J. Maxx-Home Goods store on Bald Hill Road on Feb. 7. He said another officer got there before him and had confiscated a tool used to remove sensors from merchandise. He also found designer handbags: one Gucci worth $399.99; a Valentino worth $999.99; a St. Laurent bag worth $1,100; and a Chloe bag priced at $599.99 for a total of $3,099.97. The tool, an Alpha S3 hand-key sensor removal tool worth $30, added the charge of possession of implements of shoplifting to the felony shoplifting for stealing over $100 worth of goods by a habitual offender. Richard R. Ponte, 40, of 674 Woodward Rd., North Providence, was processed at headquarters and later transported to the ACI.

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Aaron Kay reported a car doing 43 miles per hour on Buttonwoods Avenue around 10:25 p.m. on Jan. 23. He said he followed the car as it wove in and out of lanes without using signals. He said he turned on his lights to pull it over and it went into the grassy area on the side of the road before it finally stopped. He said the driver smelled of alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated and he had to tell her to stay in the car. He said he checked her papers and then asked her to take a field sobriety test and she failed it. He said he arrested her for suspicion of drunk driving and took her to headquarters, where she blew a .174 and a .176 blood alcohol content on the breath test. Taylor J. Kinser, 22, of 121 Kerri Lyn Rd. in Warwick, was charged with DUI and laned roadway violations and later released to a sober adult.

Officer Javier Cabreja said he was on patrol on Greenwich Avenue when he clocked a car doing 75 miles per hour. He said he made a U-turn and caught up as it was entering Apponaug without stopping for a stop sign. He said he pulled the car over at Centerville and Post Roads and told the driver he was stopping her for speeding. He said she replied that she was in a hurry to get home to a sick child. He said she sounded slurred and belligerent and smelled strongly of alcohol. He said he gave her a field sobriety test and he stopped it before she finished because he thought she’d fall and hurt herself. Emily Lafferty, 44, of 15 Gilbert St., Warwick, was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. She was charged with DUI, speeding, laned roadway violations and running a stop sign.

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