Crime & Safety

Hot Bods, Facebook Feud and The Woman in the Bedroom

A look at the region's more interesting police reports from the last week.

Hot bods, bare breasts and a swinging Saturday night

Two Johnston and State Police officers got quite a show when they visited a local bar in plain clothes. Turns out, not everyone inside the bar had clothes. After paying a $25 cover charge to enter a swingers party, the male and female officer got to watch a wet T-shirt contest where most of the contestants showed their breasts, then a male hot body contest where the top prize was oral sex – receiving not giving. Before the party really got started, however, officers called for reinforcements and they shut it down. The owner of Sebastian's Party Place was arrested and charged with a felony count of circulation of obscene publications and shows.

 ‘Thanks, guys, but it’s only a flesh wound’

A Woonsocket man refused to file a complaint on Sunday despite a stab wound that landed him in the trauma center at Rhode Island Hospital and may have caused his right lung to collapse. Police found the may found lying on the ground around 10 p.m. with an inch-deep stab wound bleeding heavily near his heart. He said he did not know who had stabbed him and described the perpetrator as an older white male wearing a white shirt.

He told police he had cut through the parking lot of a church while walking to when a man who he did not recognized stabbed him without saying a word and then ran away. In the same report, police described the arrest of another man, charged with disorderly conduct and identity fraud around the same time. The stabbing victim had reportedly been seen leaving the same apartment earlier that evening clutching his chest.

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All in the family

A father’s effort to defend his son got him in trouble, especially when he brought a bat with him. According to Middletown Police, the 40-year-old man stood in another man’s driveway, baseball bat in hand, and yelled for the second man to come outside. He did, the two fought, witnesses saw it, and the father was arrested for assault and disorderly conduct. He was apparently standing up for his son or seeking revenge, because he later told police that his teenage son had been called names and pushed by the 41-year-old.

An unhappy threesome

A mother/daughter fight that had been brewing for days ended when the 24-year-old daughter stabbed Mom in the hand with a knife. After East Providence police arrested the daughter for domestic assault with a dangerous weapon, both sides told their story. The daughter said the two had been fighting ever since Mom’s boyfriend moved into the home. It escalated when the two bumped into each other at the store and neither offered to buy each other anything. They fought that night and Mom ended up with a serious laceration on the hand.

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Imagine the hangover

A 25-year-old Cranston man had one hell of a night and probably a worse morning after he drove drunk, slammed into a car while police officers watched, tried to get away, was shot at, drove into an officer, crashed into a house, tried to run, struggled with officers and got hauled to the station. The officers’ bullets struck the vehicle but not the driver, who was charged with a whole mess of offenses. Police said he admitted he had been drinking heavily before the incident. They charged him with felonies, including assaulting an officer. The officer’s right arm was injured, but he was taken to a hospital and released.

Who the $%^! are you?

A Portsmouth woman suffered a rude awakening last weekend when she awoke at 2:45 in the morning to find a strange woman standing in her bedroom. The unexpected visitor told the woman she was trying to get help for a friend outside with a broken-down van. The shaken resident called police, who arrived to find the unwelcomed guest leaving the house, with no van in site. The 51-year-old was charged with breaking and entering.

What did they do wrong?

A Bristol man with a history of domestic violence crossed a new threshold, adding animal cruelty to his list of alleged offenses. Responding to a 911 call, Bristol police were greeted by a woman who claimed her boyfriend had hit her three times, body-slammed a dog and was upstairs hitting the dogs with a metal pot. Police say they found two metal cooking pots, one with the handle broken, and small blood stains on the kitchen and bathroom floors. Three children were home at the time. Because it was his third domestic violence arrest, the man faced felony charges; he added to the list by violating a no contact order the next day.

Kids, these are not good role models

A Facebook feud escalated to an old-fashioned, meet-me-in-the-school-parking-lot brouhaha in Seekonk, when two teens faced off before a crowd while a daycare was operating inside the town’s elementary school. Police say they arrived to find about 20 juveniles watching two boys punching each other; one had elastic bandages wrapped around his wrist – an idea he got from watching fight videos on the internet. Officers learned that the fight stemmed from an argument that began on Facebook. The two combatants were sent to Juvenile Court and charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct.

No Joke: Man Racks Up Five Misdemeanors On April Fools

A 42-year-old from North Kingstown had a very un-funny start to April Fools Day. After allegedly speeding in his minivan past an officer, driving home and ignoring the officer’s commands, he engaged in a verbal showdown. He told police he did not have to listen to them because he was a “sovereign citizen” and also denied driving over the speed limit. Then he allegedly added he was not driving but “travelling” and he refused to provide officers with his license because he was a “traveler” and under the Constitution he did not have to present any identification.

He was arrested – after two doses of pepper-spray – and allegedly told officers they’d be sorry for arresting him and that he was going to “own the town.” They instead gave him a five-count arrest sheet.


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