Crime & Safety

Lots Of Car Breaks & Missing Alex & Ani

Information about the following incidents was supplied by the East Greenwich Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.


Monday, April 9

3:24 p.m. — Police assisted EGFD Rescue after they were told two people were on the ground at the water’s edge at the base of the Barbara Tufts Playground on Crompton Avenue. One of the people, a North Kingstown woman, was seated by the time police arrived, but the other person, a West Warwick man, was passed out still. Once woken, the man appeared to be very drunk. He was taken by rescue to Kent Hospital for detox.

Tuesday, April 10

7:24 p.m. — Police served no-trespass orders to two men living on Adirondack Drive following a request by a resident of Cindy Ann Drive.

Wednesday, April 11

8:41 a.m. — A custodian at Meadowbrook Farms School reported damage to a gardening shed in back of the school. According to the report, it appeared the wooden door had been kicked in. The custodian said nothing was missing. A little later, the EGSD director of facilities reported this was the second time in a week the door had been damaged. He asked police to patrol the back of the school after hours.

Thursday, April 12

8:50 a.m. — A Fox Run resident reported she was missing several pieces of jewelry and she thought it started in July 2011. Among the items missing, she said, were 18 Alex & Ani bracelets and some silver jewelry. She suspected a cleaning service that had been cleaning her house since July. The cleaning company had told her to report the missing items to police.

1:45 p.m. — An employee of Wood Jewelers on Main Street reported someone had passed a bad check for $288.90 on March 8 and she’d been unable to reach the person.

2:12 p.m. — A King Street resident reported receiving a voicemail from a woman who said the resident was part of a lawsuit and had a restraining order on her. When police tried the number and said it was police calling, the man who answered hung up. A subsequent call went unanswered. Police told the resident it could be a scam and not to supply sensitive information.

Friday, April 13

1:13 p.m. — A Middle Road resident reported Social Security fraud. She learned someone had used her number for credit purposes when she applied for a car loan.

Saturday, April 14

2:47 a.m. — Wildwood Trail residents reported the possible attempted theft of one of their cars and the break in of the other, both while parked in their driveway. They had heard a loud engine revving sound at around 2 a.m. and looked outside to see their Dodge Durango traveling backward on Wildwood Trail. By the time the husband got outside, the person who’d been trying to drive the car was gone and the car was on a neighbor’s front lawn. The other car in the driveway had been rifled through and it appeared an iPhone charger was missing. Both cars had been unlocked. The keys had been accidentally left inside the Durango, the owner said. The reason it was being driven backward, he said, could have been a tricky clutch.

9:40 a.m. — Several residents of Pequot Trail reported their cars had been broken into overnight. A Tom Tom GPS unit was taken from one car that had been left unlocked. Another resident reported a missing Garmin GPS unit, also from an unlocked car. A third resident said her Magellan GPS unit was missing. A fourth resident said someone had rifled through his car but nothing appeared to be missing. Residents of Wildwood Trail, a connecting street, also then reported missing items from their unlocked cars. One woman said she was missing $40 cash, some DVDs, an iPod and a set of keys to her car. Three other residents of Wildwood told police it appeared someone had gone through their cars but nothing was missing.

1:17 p.m. — Police heard from NK Police that they had recovered a Remington Shotgun after an arrest and the gun was traced back to an EGPD theft report from 1975. The original victim in the gun theft, a man now living in Florida, was told he could recover his gun from the NKPD.

Sunday, April 15

3:45 p.m. — Police made a noise check of the church bells at Our Lady of Mercy, taking a reading at the southeast corner of Fourth Street and Fourth Avenue. The highest reading was 54 decibels.


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