Police Log: A Knife, A Dish & A Wayward Boat

Saturday, June 29

8:52 p.m. – Police arrested Rodney Kenneth Morton, 55, of New Lexington Road, for driving with a suspended license after police pulled him over for pulling out of a parking lot onto Post Road without waiting for oncoming traffic to clear. The license suspension dated back to 1998 for failing to pay a fine.

Sunday, June 30

12:12 a.m. – Police arrested Michelle Lee Canfield, 42, of Post Road, for domestic assault and domestic disorderly conduct after allegedly shoving her boyfriend and throwing a drink at him while at Kingstown Bowl on Post Road. Police found Canfield at her home and took her into custody there. She told police she had tripped, causing her to fall into her boyfriend and spill her drink on him in the process. She was held for arraignment in the morning because she was a probation violator.

Monday, July 1

9 a.m. – A Mountain View resident told police her 14' Sunfish sailboat was missing. She said she keeps it on the beach nearby her house, secured by lock and chain to a cement mooring block, but that it wasn't there when she walked on the beach earlier today.

11:35 a.m. – A Connecticut man told police sometime between Monday, June 24, and this day, a three-gallon gas tank was stolen from his dinghy docked at Brewer Wickford Cove Marina. 

6:56 p.m. – Police arrested Sheena Lee Civale, 31, of Old Baptist Road, for domestic vandalism and domestic disorderly conduct after she allegedly broke a dish and brandished a kitchen knife threatening suicide after her roommate asked her to move out. When police arrived, Civale was not there but she returned while police were searching the area for her. According to the report, Civale was uncooperative when police took her into custody. She denied having made comments about suicide but while being taken to the police station, Civale said she was having trouble breathing and was having a panic attack. She was treated at Kent Hospital,  released, and taken by police to the station for processing.

Tuesday, July 2

3:48 p.m. – Police arrested Matthew Joseph Baynard, 24, of West Allenton Road, on an arrest warrant from Virginia after being notified he had been released by Washington County Probation and needed to register with NKPD as a sex offender. Routine checks turned up the Virginia warrant. Baynard was found walking on Tower Hill Road and taken into custody to be charged as a fugitive from justice.

9:08 p.m. – North Providence Police arrested Michael N. Kozlin, 57, of Columbus Avenue in North Providence, for failing to register as a sex offender with police after they were notified by his probation officer in June that she could not find him. Kozlin's last known address was the Wickford Motor Inn but the probation officer had learned found Kozlin checked out in May. On this day, North Providence police took him into custody after learning of the outstanding NKPD warrant and NKPD picked him up.

Wednesday, July 3

11:41 a.m. – An Exeter man told police his boat, which he keeps at the town wharf in Wickford, went missing overnight. The assistant harbormaster notified police a boat had washed ashore in the Cedarhurst area and it turned out to be the Exeter man's boat. It appeared undamaged. The man said he had left the boat secured with three separate lines and his son had checked the boat Tuesday night and it was all right, so he thought someone had set it adrift.

9 p.m. – Police arrested Dilloun C. Rademacher, 32, of Phillips Street, for driving with a suspended license, after he was stopped for running a red light driving south on Tower Hill Road. He was processed at the station and released with a district court summons and a moving violation for running the red light.

10:21 p.m. – A Ten Rod Road resident told police a man covered with blood was at her home saying he'd been jumped at a nearby apartment. He said he couldn't name who hit him. At first he wanted to press charges but then decided against it. Because of his injuries, he was sent to Kent Hospital where he became uncooperative. He was sedated and admitted. Routine checks on the man turned up a warrant out of Arkansas, so authorities in that state were notified.