Fire Log: Gas Spill And Vehicle Fire

A list of recent fire and rescue calls in East Greenwich.

Monday, May 7 8:12 a.m. — Alarm system sounded due to malfunction at 1 St. Elizabeth Way 12:56 p.m. — Fire Drill (service call) at 300 Avenger Drive. 7:04 p.m. — Vehicle Accident with injuires at 38 Water St. 10:13 — Vehicle Accident with injuries at 276 Tillinghast Road. Tuesday, May 8 7:35 p.m. — Municipal Alarm System- Accidental Trip at 945 Main St.8:19 p.m. Smoke Detector activation due to malfunction at 1404 South County Trail. Wednesday, May 9 3:29 p.m. — Vehicle Accident at 135 South Road. 3:53 p.m. Vehicle Accident at Tillinghast Rd. Thursday, May 10 1:55 p.m. — Vehicle Accident with injuries at 536 Main St. 2:17 p.m. — Smoke detector activation (food on stove) at 2841 South County Trail. 5:53 p.m. Vehicle accident with injuries …

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Police Log

Mysterious Beers And Dog Poop Prints

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

Monday, April 30 12:55 p.m. — A Lenihan Lane resident reported a missing wallet that she believed was taken from her car while it sat in her driveway. The car was “likely” unlocked at the time of the theft, she told police. 4:34 p.m. — A 15-year-old girl told police she was being harassed by her boyfriend, from whom she’d just broken up. The boyfriend, 18, told police he was the one who’d broken it off and he was the one who’d been harassed. Police spoke to the mothers of both parties about the incident. 5:31 p.m. — A Marlborough Street resident reported an attempted breaking and entering. He said he’d left his home around 8 a.m. and returned at 5 p.m., discovering the weather stripping by the dead bolt lock on his front door was damaged…

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Elizabeth McNamara

2:28 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

All right, Spring Street and Danny. I'm putting you both in time out for a while. :) But, please, lay off the personal attacks.   more ›

Police Log

DUIs, Disorderly Conduct & Spitting

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

Monday, April 30 1:40 p.m. — Police arrested Victoria L. Morton, 30, of South Pierce Road, for disorderly conduct and simple assault after she was involved in an argument with her sister, who had recently moved home. The fight got physical and the father of the women had to intercede. Morton was arraigned and released on $2,000 personal recognizance. She was issued a no contact order for her sister. Tuesday, May 1 8:20 p.m. — Police arrested John Taggart, 50, of West Warwick Avenue in West Warwick, on a Third District Court bench warrant. Police got a tip from an anonymous caller that Taggart was on Main Street. Taggart was processed and taken to the ACI. Friday, May 4 3:13 p.m. — Police arrested Jeremy Woodman, 31, of Mendon Street in …

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Fire Destroys Potowomut Cottage [VIDEO]

It took place late Sunday afternoon on Wampanoag Road right across from the main entrance to Goddard Park.

A fire destroyed a cottage at 189 Wampanoag Road in Potowomut Sunday afternoon. No one was injured. The structure, which the owner said was not habitable, was not occupied at the time. “My mother saw the flames,” said Paul Alexander, who owns the cottage as well as a house on the property where he lives with his wife and parents. He estimated his mother saw the fire around 4 or 4:10 p.m. Alexander said he thought it was started by a cigarette butt dropped in dry leaves beside the structure, which was used for recreation. The post-and-beam building had been moved to the site more than 50 years earlier, he said, and it sat up on blocks. Alexander said the cottage used to be his “book barn” but the books were housed in a separate building …

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Second Suspect Arrested In Frenchtown Break

A warrant for Bruce McKenzie went out yesterday and he was picked up in East Providence today.

East Greenwich police arrested Bruce McKenzie, 23, of Cranston for breaking and entering and conspiracy in connection with a break on Frenchtown Road Monday afternoon. A warrant for McKenzie went out yesterday after police arrested Trisha M. Newman of Central Falls for conspiracy to commit a breaking and entering. McKenzie was taken into custody by East Providence police Friday morning and turned over to East Greenwich. He was arraigned at Kent County District Court. On Monday, the young girl (police said only that she was below age 15) was in the house at the time of the break. The girl barricaded herself upstairs and called 911, keeping in phone contact with police throughout the event.

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Police Arrest Suspects In Both Monday Break In, Tuesday Robbery

An arrest warrant for a second suspect in the Frenchtown break has been issued.

Police have made arrests in two incidents that took place this week — a break in to an occupied house on Frenchtown Road Monday afternoon and an armed robbery at Sunnybrook Farms Tuesday night. Police arrested Samuel T. Lemont, 18, of Bayberry Lane, for the armed robbery of the Main Street convenience store. The robbery took place Tuesday evening at 9:33 p.m. Lemont allegedly held up the lone employee, departing with an unknown amount of money. The weapon — a semi-automatic handgun — was recovered, according to police. Lemont was arraigned Thursday in Kent County District Court on one count of first degree robbery. If convicted, he would face 10 years to life in prison. East Greenwich police also arrested Trisha M. Newman, 24, of Summer …

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Exodus

3:56 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

I also do have a solution. Close the bars, eg then negotiates with north kingstown to build a entertainment center over on the quonsett base. Where there isn't people having to live there, they can get as loud as they want, as drunk as they want an they can go park over there and get it on without the possibility of kids watching them do it. Could even build a strip mall and split the profits 50/…   more ›

Robbery Suspect Still At Large

Sunnybrook Farms owner says the robbery is first in 22 years of ownership.

East Greenwich Police Chief Tom Coyle said they are “working on a suspect” in the armed robbery Tuesday night of the Sunnybrook Farms convenience store on Main Street. The suspect, around 18 to 20 years old, held up a lone store clerk Tuesday around 9:30 p.m., according to police. On Wednesday, store owner Mike DiRaimo said he had not yet figured out how much was taken. DiRaimo said this was the first time in 22 years of ownership that a robbery — armed or otherwise — had taken place. “Once we caught some kids taking candy bars. That’s the extent of it,” he said. The clerk, he said, has worked at the store for eight years and did not recognize the man, who was captured on videotape by a surveillance camera. "Most of our customers are …

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Elizabeth McNamara

10:09 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

Thanks for the tip, MNEV. We're checking on that now!   more ›

Girl Hides During Frenchtown Road Break

According to police, she barricaded herself in an upstairs room and called police.

A suspect broke into a house on Frenchtown Road west of Tillinghast Road late afternoon Monday and a young girl was in the house at the time, police said Monday night. The girl, who police said was under age 15, hid in an upstairs room and called 911. "She did an excellent job of keeping in touch with us," said Det. Lieutenant Jeremy Fague Monday night. She continued to update police throughout the encounter. By the time police arrived, however, the suspect was gone. The girl was not hurt. "We arrived on scene and the suspect wasn’t there and we started our investigation," Fague said. "The house was broken into." He refused to elaborate as to what, if anything, had been taken from the house or give the exact address. Police are treating …

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