Crime & Safety

OMG PD: Train Destroys Car Stuck on the Tracks

We compile the odd, unusual and 'oh my gosh' police items from throughout the region.

A Coventry man with a 13-year-old passenger in his car took a wrong turn while following GPS, got the car stuck on railroad tracks in Worcester and had to leap from the car moments later with a train bearing down on them. The train was traveling just 25 miles per hour but the conductors couldn’t stop it, and they slammed into the 1998 Volvo. Nobody was hurt, but the car was destroyed.

Toddler drives cart into car
A 2-year-old boy had his first brush with the law when he climbed into a golf cart at Clark Farm in South Kingstown, hit the gas pedal and drove into a parked minivan. The boy was fine, but the minivan was damaged. The officer let the boy go with a warning.

Bong, Bud and a Main Street stroll
A 50-year-old South Kingstown man earned himself a ride home when he walked down Main Street screaming obscenities and attempting to fight a man in a nearby yard. When officers found him, he was clutching an open 12-pack of Budweiser and a glass smoking bong. Officers put him in a nice patrol car for a ride back to their place.

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Selling more than magazines?
Police received a call of a woman who might be selling more than magazines in North Kingstown. According to a caller, the woman was making roundabout references to prostitution while pitching the periodicals. When police found the woman, she claimed she works for World Wide Reader selling magazines door to door. When police asked her if she made references to prostitution, she allegedly replied, “Hell no. I am trying to sell magazines.” Police brought the woman to Kentucky Fried Chicken to be picked up by her employer.

Naked house call
A 20-year-old man East Greenwich man strolled onto a resident’s front porch just after midnight wearing nothing but a pair of white socks, banged on the door and when a man answered, said: “You’re all going to die. The world is going to end.” He then ran off, slapping his rear end as he went. The victim said his late-night visitor appeared to be drunk. When he sobered up the next morning, police found him and took him into custody.

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Woman flails and hits three officers
A 40-year-old woman started with trespassing but ended with three counts of assaulting police officers when she resisted arrest in Tiverton. After officers were called to the residence where the woman had allegedly come asking for money, they tried to take her into custody. According to officers, instead of going quietly, she swore at them, gave a fake name, hid her hands beneath her body and then flailed and kicked at them. To her credit, she connected with all three of them.

URI student: “Alcohol makes you do stupid things”
Narragansett police arrested and cited several University of Rhode Island students while breaking up a house party late one night, including one man who tried to sneak away with his drink but got caught. One officer saw the 20-year-old leaving with a red Solo cup. The young man first ignored the officer and tried to walk away quietly, then threw the cup on the ground and tried to run away. He didn’t get very far before he was taken to the ground and handcuffed. On his way to the station, the man allegedly said, “Alcohol makes you do stupid things.”


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