Middletown Man Arrested for Allegedly Shooting Teen With BB Gun

A local man was arrested for allegedly shooting a 13-year-old teenage girl in the back with a pellet gun in Middletown over the weekend.

The reported they arrested Michael Farias, 47, of 208 West View Road, Middletown, Friday night around 9:36 p.m. According to the arrest report, police were called to a Pocono Road home for a complaint lodged by a 13-year-old girl who claimed that a local resident had shot her with a BB gun in her back as she cut through his yard for the second time that day on the way to and from a friend’s home.

The girl brought police to the location where she alleged the shooter lived, according to the investigator's report. Police who interviewed Farias inside his home also recovered a BB gun from his closet. When police brought Farias outside, the teen positively identified him as the shooter and the rifle as the weapon she saw at the time of the shooting, according to the arrest report. Farias was taken into custody and arrested after a parent with the girl told police they wished to press charges and Farias’ gun was seized as evidence, according to the arrest report.

In other Middletown police news over the weekend:

• John G. Genga, 33, 580 Thames St., Newport, was arrested Sunday around 9:22 p.m on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, a first offense. According to the arrest report, Middletown police stopped the car he was driving on East Main Road near Island Drive. Police at the scene allegedly detected slurred speech, bloodshot eyes and the smell of alcohol. A field sobriety test was conducted at the scene, followed by a preliminary blood-alcohol concentration breath test in which Genga allegedly registered a .205 BAC. He was held pending his arraignment by a Justice of the Peace Sunday night.
• On Saturday around 4:43 p.m., police arrested Stephen Michael Mitchell, 49, of 447 Turner Road, Middletown on a misdemeanor charge of a no-contact order violation. According to his arrest report, police received a report of Mitchell being at his address, where the no contact order remained in effect, and upon arrival at the location, Mitchell allegedly told police that he had contacted the person at that address to retrieve his personal belongings. He was arrested at the scene.
• Police arrested Ann Marie Madeira, 21, of 13 Princeton St., Apt. 3-West, New Bedford, Mass. on Friday around 6:05 p.m. on a misdemeanor outstanding arrest warrant issued by the Sixth District Court in Providence. According to the arrest report, an off-duty police officer reported smelling marijuana in a passing car and a patrol car that responded to the scene pulled over the suspect’s vehicle and also smelled marijuana. A search of the vehicle turned up no marijuana but a background check of all occupants turned up the arrest warrant for Madeira, according to the arrest report.