SHOPLIFTING

On April 21 at roughly 1:14 p.m., Officer Alyssa Comeau was dispatched to the Target location at 1245 Bald Hill Road following a shoplifting report. A Target employee stated that he had observed a woman enter the store on surveillance cameras with a reusable bag and take a shopping cart before placing some items from the Ulta section in the cart. After beginning physical floor surveillance, the employee observed the suspect concealing items from the paper goods, pet and sporting goods sections of the store within her purse and reusable bag. At the self-checkout, the suspect scanned and paid for only two of the items before beginning to walk towards the exit with unpaid items still in the reusable bag.

After the employee stopped the suspect at the exit door, he advised Officer Comeau that he wished to press charges and to instate a no trespass order. The suspect admitted that she had attempted to leave the store without paying for the concealed items, whose total value came to $189.92. After being taken to Warwick Police Department headquarters, the suspect was issued a district court summons for one count of shoplifting and then released without issue. 

SHOPLIFTING

Two arrests were recently made in connection with a shoplifting incident that took place on Dec. 27, 2024 at the Best Buy location at 24 Universal Blvd. At about 9:25 a.m. on that day, a male suspect and a female suspect had entered the store and left with electronics in their shopping cart that they had not paid for, totaling a value of $1332.96, before departing in a red sedan. The reporting employee stated that the same pair had also been seen shoplifting from a Best Buy location in Framingham, Massachusetts. The female suspect would later be arrested by North Smithfield police for shoplifting on Jan. 10, 2025, where she was identified as being accompanied by the same male suspect.

On March 26 at about 3:28 p.m., Officer Neiley and Officer Manocchio retrieved the female suspect from Kent County Court for a warrant service. After being processed at Warwick police headquarters, she was released with a third district court summons.

On April 22 at about 10:55 a.m., Officer Giles and Officer Martinez responded to 6th District Court to retrieve the male suspect for a warrant service. After being processed at Warwick police headquarters, he was released with a third district court summons.

SHOPLIFTING, WEAPON POSSESSION

On April 25 at about 4:15 a.m., Warwick police officers responded to the Alltown convenience store at 1050 Bald Hill Road for a report of shoplifting in progress. They had been advised via dispatch that the suspect had stolen multiple pairs of sunglasses and had left the store to travel northbound on Bald Hill Road. After observing a man walking on the street who matched the suspect’s description, Officer Orellana made a U-turn to make contact, at which point the suspect crossed the street over the grass median; the officer crossed the grass median and succeeded in making contact with the suspect.

After Officer Orellana detained the suspect and confiscated a knife on his hip that appeared to be clearly over three inches long, the suspect denied involvement with the shoplifting. Another officer opened the suspect’s backpack and recovered five pairs of stolen sunglasses. The backpack also contained binoculars, a small hatchet and a medium-sized machete.

After being brought to Warwick police headquarters, the suspect was fingerprinted, photographed and secured in a cell. The suspect was charged with one count of shoplifting, as well as one count of Weapons Other Than Firearms Prohibited.