Police Log: Cell Phone Assault & 2 Skipped Dinner Bills

Wednesday, Sept. 18

4:53 p.m. – The owner of Richard’s Pub told police a man had left the restaurant without paying his $60 food bill. In the video, a large white man can be seen looking around while he was seated.

Friday, Sept. 20

12:20 p.m. – A North Kingstown woman told police she’d been assaulted at Scrambler's Restaurant on Main Street minutes before. She said a woman walked into the eatery and threw a cell phone at her face then grabbed items off the table to throw at her also. The NK woman was sitting with four other people. One of the people was in a relationship the woman who was throwing things, the NK woman said. According to the report, injuries to the woman’s face were visible. After talking with other witnesses, police drew up a warrant for the other woman’s arrest.

5:20 p.m. – A High Hawk resident told police someone broke into two cars parked at his house overnight Monday, taking prescription sunglasses, brown leather gloves and loose change. Both cars had been unlocked. This is the ninth report of incidents in the area during that time frame.

9:13 p.m. – Police arrested an East Greenwich woman, 27, for driving with a suspended license after she was stopped because her car had not rear license plate light. Routine checks turned up the license violation. She was released at the scene with a District Court summons; her car was towed.

Saturday, Sept. 21

4:28 p.m. – An Oak Dell Circle resident told police about a possible violation of a restraining order. She said she got a text message from the man who recently bought her house in a foreclosure auction and is trying to get her to vacate the property. She said she’d put in paperwork for a restraining order against the man but police could not find an official order in the system.

6:22 p.m. – Police arrested an East Greenwich man, 47, for driving with an expired license after he was pulled over for speeding on South County Trail. Routine checks turned up the license violation. He was released at the scene with a court summons; a family member arrived to take the car.

7:47 p.m. – The manager of Cathay Garden told police a white male with two children ordered the buffet, ate, then left without paying. He said it was not the first time this had happened and that he did not want to press charges, but just wanted to be paid the $38.07 bill. The man did leave a $6 tip. Using the man’s license plate number, which the manager wrote down, the police got the name of a man who lives in West Warwick. They were not successful in reaching him.

8:05 p.m. – Police arrested Nicholas Espada Morra, 20, of Yorktown Road in North Kingstown, on a hold-without-bail bench warrant after he was pulled over on Post Road for changing lanes without signalling. He was taken into custody, processed at the station, then taken to the ACI.

Sunday, Sept. 22

4:38 p.m. – Police arrested a North Kingstown man, 27, for driving with a suspended license after he was pulled over on Main Street for not wearing a seat belt. He told police his license was suspended. The man was released at the scene with a District Court summons. A family member drove the car from the scene.