Police Log

Posted 2/12/14

DISORDERLY

Officer Ryan Shore reported he was dispatched to the Citizens Bank inside the Stop & Shop on Garfield Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Jan. 19 for a disturbance between a customer and a bank …

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DISORDERLY

Officer Ryan Shore reported he was dispatched to the Citizens Bank inside the Stop & Shop on Garfield Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Jan. 19 for a disturbance between a customer and a bank manager. He said he met with the woman involved, who was holding a child. He said he advised her to move away from the counter and speak with another officer while he spoke with the manager. He said she immediately became irate and said she wouldn’t move until she talked with police. He said she eventually calmed down and moved.

Ryan said the manager told him the woman came into the bank, cashed a check and then left the bank. He said she was back 20 minutes later, complaining that she was short money from the check. “As bank manager I explained the procedure and she demanded to have the money back after I told her she needed to wait until 7 p.m.,” when the teller counted her drawer. He told Shore that she began to make threats and started swearing in front of the other customers and still refused even after they said they were calling the police. He told Shore that he wanted her told that she could no longer come back to that branch or any other Citizens Bank in the future. Shore said the manager told him she said, “You don’t know who the [expletive] I am, I’m gonna have my people come back here and we will see what happens.” He said the manager also asked Shore to arrange for police to be there when they closed the bank at 7:30 to check the parking lot. Shore said he then told the woman she would be arrested for disorderly conduct and that she should call someone to take custody of the child and she became enraged and said she was not going to be arrested and began to walk away. Shore said he explained to her that he was doing her a courtesy by letting her arrange for the child and that she was going to be arrested and she reluctantly called for someone to come for the child. He said she made several phone calls, insisting to people she talked to that they were racist cops and that “she wasn’t even in the bank, that she was outside the teller area talking [expletive].” The child was turned over to the suspect’s mother and Kristen Symonds, 37, of 254 Washington St. in Providence, was taken to headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct and later released on $1,000 personal recognizance.

SLOW RESPONSE

Det. Thomas Okolowitcz reported that he took a complaint from the loss management division of Webster Bank on July 17 of last year. The manager said a Cranston woman deposited a Postal Money Order for $916.50 to her account and then withdrew the money a short time after that. The manager said the Money Order turned out to be a counterfeit and the bank was out $916.50. He said he called the woman involved and she told him she was not aware that the order was counterfeit but she did realize that she was responsible for the money. Okolowitcz said he explained that the bank was willing to forgo prosecution if she made full restitution and she agreed to do that. He said he spoke with her several times after that and she said she would settle the matter after the holidays because money was tight. He told her he would be back in touch after the first of the year. He said she still had not made restitution by that time and a warrant was issued for passing a counterfeit money order and obtaining money under false pretenses. He reported that Natasha Marie Cortez, 32, with a last known address of 16 America St. in Cranston, turned herself in on Jan. 24 and was later released with a summons.

SHOPLIFTING

Officer Matthew Josefson reported he was dispatched to the Wal-Mart store on Plainfield Pike for a shoplifting in progress around 7:20 p.m. Jan. 25. A loss prevention agent told Josefson he saw a woman with dyed red hair take 16 cans of Enfamil and some other items and hide them in a bag under her coat. He said she also took a box of donuts off the shelf and ate a bunch of them before putting the empty packages back. Josefson said he stopped her when she walked out without paying for any of the items she concealed. He said the bag she used was lined with tin foil in an attempt to defeat sensors. He said they recovered $305.77 worth of merchandise from the woman. He said Melissa Dwyer-Souza, 26, of no fixed address in Providence, was charged with shoplifting and possessing implement of shoplifting and held without bail because she was already out on bail for shoplifting.

Officer Mardochee Bellevue reported arresting a Providence man for stealing seven bags of shrimp from the Stop & Shop on Garfield Avenue on Jan. 25. A loss prevention employee at the store told Bellevue he saw the man put the bags in his backpack and then put the backpack under his shopping cart. They said he went through the self-checkout line without paying for the shrimp and was stopped outside and led back inside to wait for police. Bellevue said the shrimp was worth $192.86. Juan M. Reyes Santiago, 32, of 10 Huron St. in Providence, was charged with shoplifting and with a warrant for failure to appear for a previous shoplifting charge in District Court.

Nicholas D. MacPhail, 35, of 219 Power St. in Providence, was charged with shoplifting $198 worth of steak and seafood from the Stop & Shop at 275 Warwick Ave. on Jan. 25. Loss prevention told Officer Robert Skodras they saw him put the steaks and seafood in reusable bags before leaving the store without paying for them. Skodras said he also learned that MacPhail had two outstanding warrants under the alias of Devitt MacPhail in Rhode Island and another extraditable warrant out of Pennsylvania for robbery, and Bucks County officials in that state said they would like to take him back. He was released on $1,000 personal recognizance on the shoplifting but held without bail as a fugitive from justice.

LEARNER’S PERMIT

Officer David Cragin reported he pulled a car over after watching it turn abruptly into oncoming traffic on Park Avenue around 8:20 p.m. Jan. 25. He said the plate came back as stolen out of Providence and the driver was detained while Cragin investigated. He said the driver claimed he got the car from a friend and didn’t know it was stolen or where his friend lived. He said the driver had an active learner’s permit but no license. Jason Nathaniel, 18, of 135 Warwick Ave. in Cranston, was charged with driving a car without the owner’s permission and driving without a license. He was later released on $5,000 personal recognizance.

DUI

Officer Brenton Medeiros said he stopped a car for driving erratically on Park Avenue around 4:45 a.m. Jan. 25 and pulled it over. He said the driver appeared to be drunk and smelled of alcohol, even though he said he only had “one cup of beer.” He said the driver failed a field sobriety test and was taken to headquarters, where he registered a .192 and a .194 blood alcohol content. Mingyu Li, 24, of 75 Independence Way in Cranston, was charged with DUI and later released on $2,000 personal recognizance.

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  • Wuggly

    Four shoplifters arrested, four shoplifters with previous charges. Our Police must get sick of re-arresting criminals.

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