Police Log: Sister Act & Too Many Shots

Friday, May 31

10 a.m. – A teacher at North Kingstown Day Care on Boston Neck Road told police an older white man with long gray hair in a gray truck pulled up alongside a student and her and offered the student a lollipop. The teacher said, “No thank you,” but the truck driver offered again. The teacher took the candy, hoping to get the man to move on, and she and the student returned to the day care. 

6:14 p.m. – A Shermantown Road resident told police someone put dirt in the air filter of his camper, perhaps while it was parked in his driveway over the winter. He discovered it after a trip in the camper to Connecticut. A mechanic diagnosed the problem. He also reported this mailbox was smashed sometime overnight between May 21 and May 22.

Saturday, June 1

11:24 a.m. – An employee of South County Nursing Center on Oak Hill Road told police a patient had struck another patient in the leg with her cane. Both patients have dementia and neither recalled the incident. The injured party said she did not need police assistance.

5:33 p.m. – Police arrested both Kayla J. Caruso, 22, of Elmwood Avenue in Warwick, and Kristen L. Caruso, 24, of Cambridge Avenue in Warwick, for simple assault and disorderly conduct after they allegedly jumped a North Kingstown woman on Devils Foot Road. They were taken into custody and processed at the station to await arraignment.

7:06 p.m. – Police arrested Bruce Carpenter, 46, of Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, for obstructing police after police learned he had been lying when he reported his truck stolen, the same truck seen at the scene of a robbery and driven by the robbery suspect.  Carpenter was accused of knowing the suspect and filing a false report of a stolen truck.

11:21 p.m. – Police arrested Justin Robert Blanchette, 22, of Watson Avenue in Narragansett, for driving while intoxicated after he was involved in a car accident on Sunnybrook Drive. Police suspected excessive alcohol use after talking to Blanchette so he was asked to complete a sobriety test, which he failed. Blanchette was arrested and taken to the station, where he agreed to take a breath test. The tests showed his blood alcohol content at .244 percent, and 15 minutes later, .249 percent BAC. The legal level is .08 percent. He told police he had had “three beers and five or six shots” earlier in the evening.