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Police Log 12-28-23

Posted 12/28/23

DUI

Around 11:54 p.m., Nov. 22, Warwick Police responded to a traffic stop to assist another officer with a DUI investigation at 2081 Post Road in front of the Radisson Hotel. The vehicle had …

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Police Log 12-28-23

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DUI

Around 7:50 p.m., Nov. 24, Warwick Police were on a “DUI enforcement patrol” when another officer “transmitted that he had a vehicle stopped for suspicion of DUI” on Interstate 95 North, near Exit 31.

Police said the driver was traveling 20 miles per hour under the posted 55 MPH speed limit, without lights and failing to maintain a single lane of travel.

Police identified the driver as Lisa Y. Jensen, 38, of 746 Plainfield St., Apt. 2, Providence.

“Jensen advised me that she had ingested ’10 Marijuana gummies’ in the span of 1 hour and was allowed to do so because Marijuana was legal,” Warwick Police Officer Michael J. Rosa wrote in the arrest report. “While speaking with Jensen I could detect the moderate odor of (alcohol)>”

Police asked Jensen to consent to a series of standardized field sobriety tests. Following the tests, she was arrested and transported to Kent County Memorial Hospital. Police said she was indecisive and after about 12 minutes she was issued a “refusal” after she did not sign the form for chemical tests.

Jensen was charged with DUI (BAC unknown, first offense) and cited for Refusal to Submit to a Chemical Test, Laned Roadway Violations, Times When Lights Required and Operating Below Minimum Speed.

She was transported to East Greenwich Police Department because, according to the report, “the fingerprint machine at WPD was inoperable.”

Jensen was then transported back to Warwick Police Department, photographed and booked “all without incident.”


SHOPLIFTING

Around 9:15 p.m., Dec. 2, Warwick Police were dispatched to the Warwick Mall, 400 Bald Hill Road, for the report of a man who allegedly attempted to shoplift in the past and was actively shopping in the store.

“According to Loss Prevention, the male had placed a scooter in his carriage,” Warwick Police Officer Jake R. Reddy wrote in the arrest report. “Dispatch advised that this male had attempted to shoplift in the past however the items were recovered prior to him passing all points of purchase.”

Upon arrival, Reddy spotted the suspect exiting the store with a carriage and “what appeared to be a Razor type scooter in a box inside.” According to the report, the item was a Razor Hoverboard valued at $179.

Police identified the man as Robert J. Pimental, 59, of 30 Howard Ave., Apt. 58, Cranston. A loss prevention officer told police that Pimental entered the store, put the scooter in his carriage, parked the carriage in the back of the store, approached the cell phone area of the store and purchased a $20 cell phone gift card form the “rear register area.”

“He then returned back to the carriage with the scooter and pushed it through the store and then out the front of the store passing all points of purchase making no attempt to pay for the Razor scooter,” Reddy wrote.

Pimental allegedly admitted to police that he had not paid for the scooter, that “it was a gift” and “he did not have the money to pay for it.” Police arrested Pimental, transported him back to Warwick Police Headquarters and charged him with one misdemeanor count of Shoplifting.


NO TRESPASS

Around 7:32 p.m., Dec. 2, Warwick Police responded to the Hooters at 667 Airport Road for the report of “an intoxicated male passed out in the bathroom.”

Police made contact with the man and identified him as Jeffrey S. Curtis, 47, of 174 Holland St., Cranston.

“I informed Curtis he was asleep in the Hooters bathroom and that he needed to get up and pay for his tab,” wrote Warwick Police Officer Andrew J. Chretien.

Restaurant management told police they wanted Curtis escorted off the property and issued a No Trespass Order.


DUI

Around 12:06 a.m., Dec. 3, Warwick Police Officer Kevin P. Grant Jr. spotted an orange Mini Cooper traveling east on Airport Road “appearing to tailgate a dark … sedan,” according to the arrest report.

“Upon passing my location, I observed the orange Mini Cooper to be rapidly braking and attempting to pass the vehicle over the double yellow lines in an attempt to go around them and travel into oncoming traffic,” Grant wrote in the report.

Grant followed the vehicle for nearly a mile, clocking it at 48 miles per hour in a posted 35 mph zone and then a 25 mph zone. Eventually the vehicle took a left onto Warwick Avenue. Police initiated a traffic stop.

Police identified the driver as Jeannie L. Rossetti, 52, of 47 Ogden St., Providence.

Police said Rossetti had “bloodshot watery eyes, a flush red face, and to be speaking with a mumbled tone of voice having difficulty articulating her words.”

Police asked Rossetti to consent to a series of standardized field sobriety tests. Following the tests, she was arrested and charged with DUI of Liquor (BAC unknown) She was also cited for Refusal to Submit to a Chemical Test,  Refusal to Submit to a Preliminary Breath Test, Speeding 11+ mph in Excess of Posted Speed Limit, Intervals Between Vehicles, and Laned Roadway Violations.

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