Police Log: Landlord Woes, Failed Drug Transactions

Monday, July 1

2 p.m. – The owner of Cathay Garden told police someone gone into an apartment he owns behind the restaurant and taken some things. He said he used to keep the apartment open sometimes but that 10 or 11 days ago a tenant of his from another apartment had removed cushions from the back apartment to use with friends congregating in the parking lot behind the building. He’d told the tenant to return the cushions and had made sure to lock the apartment since. He wasn’t sure when exactly the items – including four crystal dragons, three paintings and a lamp – went missing. There was no sign of forced entry; a woman’s sweatshirt smelling of cigarettes had been left behind.

4 p.m. – Police met the landlord of a King Street apartment after a complaint from the tenant that he couldn’t get in. The landlord opened the apartment; he told police he was in the process of evicting the tenant.

4:39 p.m. – Police arrested Frank Dellatorre, 39, of Marlborough Street for allegedly trying to sell four Adderall pills after a woman told police she’d arranged to buy the pills from him in the CVS parking lot on Main Street. Police intercepted the transaction midway through and took Dellatorre into custody.

5:50 p.m. – Police arrested Alisha Celilia Robidoux, 38, of Smith Street in Providence, on two counts of fraudulently trying to obtain a controlled substance at CVS on Main Street, after she returned to the pharmacy on this day to fill an Oxycodone prescription very similar to the one she’d had filled on June 22 and was later deemed fake. Police watched the surveillance video from that June transaction and recognized the customer to be the same woman now before them.

11:45 p.m. – Police arrested Robert L. Hytinen, 32, of Nekick Road in Potowomut, of driving with a suspended license after he was involved in a minor car accident on First Avenue near Main Street. Routine checks turned up the license violation. Police gave Hytinen a court summons and told him to report to the station for processing before his court date.

Tuesday, July 2

8:53 a.m. – Employees of the pumping station at 10 Davisville Road for Quonset Development Corp. told police a locked metal door to the pump house and its knob had been dented. The pump house is surrounded by a fence with a locked gate. One of the employees said the last time he’d seen the door undamaged was 24 hours earlier.

9:21 a.m. – An assistant branch manager for Bank RI asked police to issue a no-trespass order for a customer from an 83-year-old North Kingstown man who, the woman said, had been making inappropriate comments to her and expressing his desire for them to become a couple. Police issued the order, which the man signed.

10:04 a.m. – Police arrested Gabriel Calderon, 38, of Huntington Avenue in Providence, on a warrant from Warwick. He’d heard he was wanted and turned himself in. Warwick police were notified.