Warren police logs: Late night parties, loud music galore
Monday, May 13 A Broad Street resident reported telephone harassment. Police checked out a man using a metal detector near Burr’s Hill just after noon. A barking dog complaint came in from Benefit Street. A Cottage Street resident reported fraudulent credit card charges. A woman told police that someone left harassing messages on her voicemail. [...]
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Monday, April 29 A suspicious man spotted on Truman Avenue just before 10 a.m. told police he was only waiting for a friend to arrive. A Kinnicutt Avenue woman reported receiving harassing phone calls from her ex-husband’s new wife. Police were called to Arlington Avenue for an unruly 12-year-old boy. A bank robbery was reported [...]
Read More →Warren police seek bank robber
Police are looking for a man who robbed the Bank of Newport branch at 323 Market St. on Monday afternoon, April 29. Warren police were called to the branch at about 2:14 p.m. for a report of a robbery. Video surveillance they reviewed later shows the suspect, a white man wearing a black sweatshirt, tan [...]
Read More →Warren police logs: Mustangs race, loose birds fly (in car)
Monday, April 22 Police dispersed a man who was loitering at Market and Turner streets just after 9 a.m. A Buffalo Avenue resident flagged down an officer to report a larceny that occurred overnight. An Oak Street resident reported a possible case of identity fraud. Someone reported a plant stolen from Miller Street. The car [...]
Read More →Warren police logs: Lucky day for trashy squirrel
Monday, April 15 Someone found a litter of kittens on Market Street and called the animal control officer. Officer Heidi Garrity said that apart from that litter of six, four more kittens were born at the shelter a few days later, and she also recovered a litter of six baby rabbits from a home. Police [...]
Read More →Numbers show Warren police busier than ever
Warren police made more arrests than ever last year, charging nearly 600 men and women with crimes ranging from arson to DUI to drug possession and assault. The 585 arrests officers made in 2012 represents a nearly 25 percent jump in arrests from 2011, the highest percentage jump over the past seven years. It, [...]
Read More →Barrington boy accidentally shares explicit photos with friend’s mom
A Warren woman called police last Thursday, April 11, to report finding explicit photos of her son’s teenage friend on her computer. Police believe that several weeks prior to the woman’s discovery, the son’s friend was at the house and plugged his iPhone into the woman’s computer to charge it. What he didn’t know was [...]
Read More →Warren police logs: Man charged with heroin possession
Monday, April 1 An Old Market Street man complained that someone covered his car with toilet paper and aluminum foil. Someone called police after spotting kids in a canoe on the Warren reservoir. Credit fraud was reported on Metacom Avenue. An officer noted that a car driving on Market Street was dragging its muffler. Tuesday, [...]
Read More →Man who threatened to kill trooper sought
Rhode Island State Police need the public’s help identifying a suspect who threatened to kill a Rhode Island State Trooper during a phone call with Warren police two months ago. Just before 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, Warren police received a call from an unidentified man who stated that a trooper would be assassinated [...]
Read More →Marijuana decriminalized as of Monday, April 1
As of Monday, April 1, it will no longer be a crime to carry small amounts of marijuana in Rhode Island. And like their counterparts in towns across the state, Warren police are ramping up for the change in law. “We’re going to keep it very simple,” said Warren Police Lt. Roy Borges. “It’s basically [...]
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