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Posted 10/8/14

Police: Man stabbed

boy in foot with fork

A Cranston man is accused of stabbing a six-year-old boy in the foot with a fork.

Brandon Lyon, 26, was arraigned on a charge of second-degree …

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Police: Man stabbed

boy in foot with fork

A Cranston man is accused of stabbing a six-year-old boy in the foot with a fork.

Brandon Lyon, 26, was arraigned on a charge of second-degree child abuse in Kent County District Court. Bail was set at $20,000 surety but he was held as a probation violator.

According to reports, Cranston Police Inspector Thomas Pariseault told the court that the victim informed investigators that his mother’s boyfriend disciplined him by repeatedly stabbing him on the bottom of his feet with a metal fork.

Lyon did not enter a plea on Monday, when he was arraigned at Kent County District Court. Police reported that the child had cuts on his feet consistent with the shape of a fork.

2 face prostitution charges after massage parlor probe

Complaints from people in the neighborhood led to the closing of an erstwhile massage parlor on Reservoir Avenue this week.

Cranston police arrested two women for prostitution and practicing massage therapy without a license on Oct. 2.

Detectives reported getting a tip from a neighbor of the Aroma Spa at 465 Reservoir Ave. Police said neighbors believed that the number of cars and people around the place at all hours seemed suspicious, and an undercover officer entered the spa and was allegedly offered more that a standard massage while he was there.

Offering sex is prostitution, but holding one’s self out as a massage therapy violates Rhode Island General Law 23-20.8-34, which requires that massage therapists have to have a license from the Department of Health. Detectives said they found advertisements for Aroma Spa offering massage therapy. Detectives found probable cause to dismantle the illegal operations at the spa.

Ok Kim, 62, of 465 Reservoir Ave. in Cranston, was charged with prostitution and doing unlicensed massage therapy, while Chom Sun Meinke, 52, of 3416 Clearview Expressway in Bayside, N.Y., was charged with providing unlicensed massage therapy.

Man sentenced for threats against IRS agent, family

On Oct. 3, U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith sentenced Andrew A. Calcione, 49, of Cranston, to 12 months and one day in federal prison for threatening to assault and murder an IRS agent and his family. The sentence was announced in a press release from the office of U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha.

Calcione was convicted by Smith on May 26, based on evidence presented at a jury-waived trial on May 21. Calcione was found guilty of one count each of threatening to assault and murder an IRS agent and threatening to assault and murder members of the agent’s family.

According to the government, an IRS agent was assigned to examine Calcione’s tax returns for years 2008, 2009 and 2010. As a result, the agent estimated that Calcione owed the IRS $330,000.

In April 2013, the IRS revenue agent requested that Calcione and an ex-wife of Calcione sign a Consent to Extend Time to Assess Tax form. Calcione signed the form, but his ex-wife had not. On July 12, 2013, the revenue agent left a voicemail message for Calcione about the form.

According to the government, the agent received two voicemails on July 15, 2013. One of the messages contained a threat that, if the agent called again, Calcione would show up at his home and torture the agent, rape and kill his wife and injure his daughter while the agent watched before killing the agent. A second message requested that the agent disregard the first message, which Calcione said was left in error.

At sentencing, Smith also ordered Calcione to serve three years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.

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