Police Log: Stolen Kitten, Shoplifted Earrings

A stolen kitten

Police arrested Michelle Lee Canfield, 42, of Post Road, at 8:30 p.m. after she took a kitten without permission than became belligerent with police. A North Kingstown man told police Canfield took one of his kittens even though he told her he didn't want to give her one, although he did give her permission to visit the kittens. Police followed up Canfield's residence and she admitted taking the kitten. She said she took the kitten because the man was "a ******* scumbag and shouldn't have cats." Police said the man wouldn't press charges if the kitten was returned, but while they were looking for the kitten, Canfield continually bad-mouthed the kitten's owner, who was waiting in a car outside. After repeated warnings that arrest was eminent if she didn't stop, police finally took Canfield into custody and charged her with disorderly conduct. While she was at the station, she punched a cell block wall; she was taken to the hospital for treament after signing a district court summons with her opposite hand.

Shoplifting earrings

The owner of Lullabells on Main Street told police a woman had shoplifted two sets of earrings from the store on Saturday, April 27. The incident was allegedly caught on surveillance video. On the video, a woman is seen examining the earring display, then moving earrings into her hand and dropping them into a bag hanging on her right arm. The woman in the video is approximately 50 to 60 years old, white, and heavy set, with short white hair. A nearby business owner told police she'd discovered a necklace was missing in her store and she remembered seeing a woman of the same description. 

"$2,000 or your son will be killed"

A North Kingstown man told police his mother received a call on a cell phone belonging to him in which the caller said her son had been in an accident, was at fault, and she would need to bring $2,000 to Rhode Island Hospital or else her son would be killed. She kept the caller on the phone, meanwhile using another phone to contact all her sons to make sure they were OK. Upon learning none of them had been in an accident, she hung up the phone. 

Stolen sunglasses

An employee of Koch Eye Associates on Post Road told police they were missing several pairs of sunglasses following a visit to the store by a couple in their 20s. The employee said she got distracted because while she was talking to the man, the woman would request assistance in another part of the store.