Police Log

A Few Too Many Beers & A Broken Laptop

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

Monday, Aug. 8 1:20 p.m. - Police cited a Warwick man for driving with a suspended license and suspended car registration after police noticed the out-of-date registration sticker on the car as it was traveling north on Main Street near Division. The car was towed from the scene. Wednesday, Aug. 10 1:21 a.m. - Police arrested Raymond Bell, 21, on a bench warrant for failure in court to appear after Bell came to the station seeking a ride home. He was taken into custody. 4:40 p.m. - Police arrested Kathleen Schumacher, 50, of Oak Dell Circle on a charge of malicious injury to property after she admitted shutting her husband’s laptop computer in anger, breaking the computer screen and a pair of his glasses that had been resting on the …

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Elizabeth McNamara

7:12 am on Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Watson Pleads Not Guilty In Conn. To DUI, Drug Charges

The East Greenwich state representative will return to court in New Haven on Aug. 25.

Embattled Rhode Island state Rep. Robert Watson, who was caught in an East Haven police DUI checkpoint in April, pleaded not guilty today in New Haven Superior Court on DUI and drug possession charges. Watson appeared briefly before Superior Court Judge Susan Connor Thursday morning while his lawyer, Jack O’Donnell, entered the not-guilty plea. Judge Connor set his next pretrial appearance for Aug. 25, when Watson might choose to have a jury trial. “I expect to deal with this in a legal manner,” Watson told reporters after leaving court, which was essentially the same thing he said at his first court appearance on June 7. He declined to make any other statements. The meeting with reporters was much less dramatic than on June 7, when …

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Elizabeth McNamara

4:12 pm on Thursday, July 21, 2011

Mutato, you're right. Watson was found to have both marijuana and cocaine in a test on his urine that was returned in early June. We omitted that fact in error.   more ›