Monday, May 13, 2013
No injuries were reported, but traffic delays occurred Monday morning after multiple reports of vehicle crashes on Route 24 South.
Multiple motor vehicle crashes occurred Monday morning near construction on the new Sakonnet River Bridge, according to EastBayRI. Patch received numerous reports of vehicle delays on Route 24 South near the Fish Road exit around 10 a.m. Renee Cwiek Sartini: Traffic's backed up all the way down Fish Road. Something happened on the bridge. EastBayRI reports the accidents appear to be related to bridge construction. No injuries were reported. About an hour later, Portsmouth emergency officials were also called to a major motor vehicle crash on West Main Road at Stringham in Portsmouth. Further details about this crash are unknown at this time. Check back with Patch later today for updates on this developing story.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Take a look at some of the more compelling police reports from around the state. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Drunken Bumber Cars A Newport woman was arrested around 6 p.m. Wednesday after she allegedly hit two cars and fled the scene. Ingrid Pena-Tejada, 48, of 143 Third Street, Apt #4F, was charged with driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident of an attended vehicle and for an open container. No injuries were reported. Police said she registered a .278 and .277 on Breathalyzer tests, which is more than three times the legal limit. Adventures in Carpooling Woonsocket Police arrested a local woman for DUI after officers reportedly watched her run a red light and drive straight in a left-turn-only lane, all without wearing her seatbelt. The four children in the back of her SUV also were …
Monday, May 6, 2013
West Main Pizza in Portsmouth will be closed for another month, says owner.
"Bored," was the one word West Main Pizza co-owner Gary Rahilly used when asked how he was doing after a fire closed his Portsmouth pizza business. Since the fire, Rahilly has been looking for things to do in the meantime. He was found Tuesday mowing the lawn behind the one-story West Main Pizza restaurant while Middletown-based Paradise Restoration workers continued to clean the inside. A white sign, reading "Sorry we are closed due to a small fire," stood next to the front door. "It was an unfortunate accident, but I will be back in business," Rahilly vowed. West Main Pizza is a popular eatery along West Main Road in Portsmouth, especially after Portsmouth Little League games in the summer and a favorite place among workers at the …
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West Main Pizza
1620 W Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Take a look at some of the more compelling police reports from around the state. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Man Hits Milestone 28th Arrest A man from South Kingstown has probably experienced more arrests than some first-year police officers after he was nabbed for his 28th — yes, 28th — arrest this week. For his 28th, the 47-year-old man went all out with a felony charge of possession of crack cocaine. As for his other 27 arrests, the man seems to like diversity. He’s been charged with drug crimes, receiving stolen goods, disorderly conduct, assault and property destruction, to name a few. In 1999, he even had a charge of attempting to escape from a correctional facility. For now, he’s been ordered to serve an 18-month suspended sentence and 18 months of probation, as well as substance abuse counseling. …Not To Be Upstaged Speaking of repeat …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Portsmouth firefighters saved a man stuck in a raised bucket truck, a cherry picker, Thursday morning at Clements' Market.
Portsmouth firefighters saved a man Thursday morning after he became trapped in a cherry picker, a hydraulic crane with a raised platform, at Clements' Market in Portsmouth. A man, an employee of Henderson Electric, a Pawtucket company, was in the process of changing light bulbs in the Clements' Market parking lot when the vehicle he was using experienced a hydraulic failure, according to Portsmouth Fire Deputy Chief Michael O'Brien. Portsmouth firefighters removed him from the lifted bucket and brought him safely to the ground. No injuries were reported. Firefighters also cleaned up a small hydraulic fluid spill in the Clements' Market parking lot.
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Clements' Market
2575 E Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
The activities begin on Saturday and continue into Sunday.
Police officers from Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will march throughout the island this weekend as part of the Aquidneck Island National Police Parade. The officers will march to the beat of the New York Police Department's Emerald Society Pipe and Drum, Police Pipe and Drums of Bergen County (NJ), New Jersey United Police Band, and the Philadelphia (PA) Police Pipes and Drum Band. The activities begin Saturday with a golf tournament at Newport National and a steak dinner at the FOP Lodge in Middletown. On Saturday night, a Rockin' Rodeo Round-up will be held at Dockside at Waite's Wharf in Newport. There will be live music performed by police bands such as Ten-8 and Pipe and …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Police said more details will follow soon.
Two men were arrested Tuesday after police say they printed and used counterfeit money in Newport and Middletown.
Two men were arrested Tuesday after police said they had been using counterfeit $20 bill at Newport and Middletown businesses. Daniel Spearin, 36, of 249 Connell Hwy Apt #237 and Jerry Moening, 25, of 84 Abby Lane, North Kingstown, allegedly had been printing the bills while living at the Motel 6 in Newport. Newport and Middletown detectives worked together on the investigation that led to the arrests. Moening reportedly told police that he worked together with Spearin to produce fake the money. He said that he watched Spearin “scrub” one dollar bills with oven cleaner and a toothbrush to remove the ink from the paper. They taped the bills to a piece of paper and printed the bills to convert them into $20 bills, said police. Moening …
Mary Sweeney, the daughter of Middletown Police Sgt. Patrick Sweeney, organized a demonstration and staged a crash Tuesday at Portsmouth High School.
It didn't take Mary Sweeney long to realize the topic for her senior project, but she might have wished it happened under different circumstances. Sweeney, a senior at Portsmouth High School, says she was driving one day on her street when another vehicle started driving toward her head-on, on the wrong side of the road. Sweeney hit her vehicle's horn. The operator, a woman, did not hear it. Sweeney needed to swerve out of the way onto the grass as the other vehicle passed, she said. "She wasn't looking at the road. She wasn't looking in front of her," Sweeney said. "My car was completely on the grass in someone's yard. She didn't realize she was in oncoming traffic." That's when Sweeney, the daughter of Middletown police Sgt. …
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Portsmouth High School
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The man, wearing a white baseball cap and red gloves, went to the Bank Newport in Warren on Apr. 29.
Warren police are seeking leads in an April 29 bank robbery at the Bank of Newport branch on Market Street. According to Lt. Roland Brule, the male suspect did not show a weapon and left the bank at about 2:15 pm with an undisclosed amount of money. Surveillance camera footage shows a white male wearing a shite baseball cap, tan sweatshirt, red gloves, and sunglasses at the teller counter. Brule also said police are looking for anyone who may have been traveling on Schoolhouse Road around that time, since officers believe the suspect was headed in that direction. Anyone with information is asked to call Warren Police at (401)-245-1311.
Jim L
9:03 am on Saturday, May 18, 2013
WHO, will do the maintace on thr sakonett river bridge if it isn't taken away from RITBA, they's have no equipment, with RI taxpayer money be given to them and then doled out to companies, giving them a cut in the process, meaning that money that could have been used by the dot will now be siphoned of to a semi private company? NO TOLLSi more ›