Police Log

Posted 12/16/15

By DANIEL KITTREDGE

Weekend shooting investigation

Police are reportedly investigating after a man was shot in the foot outside a Garden Street house party early Sunday morning.

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By DANIEL KITTREDGE

Weekend shooting investigation

Police are reportedly investigating after a man was shot in the foot outside a Garden Street house party early Sunday morning.

Chief of Police Col. Michael Winquist told WPRI that officers responded to the area around 2:30 a.m. after neighbors reported hearing gunfire. No victim was located, but shell casings were reportedly found at the scene.

Shortly thereafter, police were reportedly informed of a gunshot victim arriving at Rhode Island Hospital. The 21-year-old man is said to have told officers that a dark-colored SUV had pulled up and opened fire as he left the party, but he did not know if he had been targeted or why he would have been. He was struck in the foot and taken to the hospital by friends.

Other witnesses are said to have told police an argument occurred between two vehicles in the area prior to the shooting. Police later on Sunday reportedly found two homes on Garden Street had been hit with bullets tied to the shooting.

Man faces child

pornography charges

A Cranston man was arrested last week on child pornography charges, according to Rhode Island State Police.

Kyle Healey, 29, of 34 Clifden Ave., faces one count each of possession of child pornography and transfer of child pornography, police said in a statement. He was arrested Dec. 7 by members of the Computer Crimes Unit/Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Healey was arraigned in Third District court and released on $10,000 personal recognizance, with the conditions that he not use the Internet and have no contact with minors.

Court denies Caramadre’s

motion to withdraw guilty plea

A federal appeals court has denied an imprisoned estate planner’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea in an investment scheme targeting the terminally ill.

Last week’s First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling leaves in place the six-year prison sentence handed down to Joseph A. Caramadre in December 2013, as well as restitution payments totaling $46 million, according to the office of U.S. District Attorney Peter Neronha.

Caramadre, the president, CEO, and majority owner of Estate Planning Resources in Cranston, pleaded guilty in November 2012 to charges of conspiracy to commit identity theft and wire fraud as his trial was set to enter the second week of testimony. A motion to vacate the guilty plea was previously denied in district court.

According to Neronha’s office, Caramadre admitted that he and Raymour Radhakrishnan, an employee and co-defendant, obtained the personal identity information of terminally-ill and elderly patients through misrepresentations to those victims and their families, and then used the information “to obtain more than 200 variable annuities and to open more than 75 brokerage accounts in order to purchase ‘death-put’ bonds in the victims’ names without their knowledge and consent.”

“Caramadre and Radhakrishnan either forged the signatures of terminally-ill people on account documents, or obtained by means of misrepresentations,” reads a release from Neronha’s office. “When the terminally-ill person died, Caramadre and others reaped substantial profits by exercising death benefits associated with the investments.”

“The road has been a long one, but the defendant’s quixotic and seemingly inexhaustible attempts to escape the consequences of his reprehensible criminal conduct are finally at an end,” Neronha states through the release. “Perhaps he can spend the remainder of his six year prison sentence reflecting on his greed and his victimization of the most vulnerable, instead of dreaming up Hail Mary legal arguments.”

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