Police Log: Threatening Socks, Boloney Vandalism

Friday, Sept. 6

1:02 p.m. – After getting a report about a woman possibly drunk near Ten Rod Road and Quaker Lane, police found a man and a woman on the grass near the Dunkin' Donuts. The woman, from Huntington Beach, California, told police she'd had a seizure but that she was ok. She refused treatment. Police realized the two were the same people for whom Stop & Shop had requested no-trespass orders, because they had been soliciting money from customers outside the store. The man gave police a West Kingston address. The orders had not been delivered because the two people had not been located. Police now issued the no-trespass orders.  

Saturday, Aug. 7

12:29 a.m. – Police arrested John L. Wight, 24, of Hillcrest Drive in Cranston, for driving with a suspended license after he was stopped for speeding on Tower Hill Road. Routine checks turned up the license violation. He was taken into custody, processed at the station and released with both a district court summons and a speeding ticket.

9:40 a.m. – A State Street resident told police someone put socks on her windshield wipers overnight. There was no damage to her car. She asked for more overnight police patrols of the State Street area.

3 p.m. – The owner of a house on Featherbed Lane found a number of tools missing from the garage. The last time he'd seen the tools in the garage was Aug. 31. The property is in short sale and is being maintained by a management company hired by the bank. The value of all the items exceeded $1,500.

5:35 p.m. – Police arrested Juan Douglas Hazard, 41, of Yorktown Road, on three bench warrants from Third District court and one from Sixth District Court after police saw him on Sachem Road near Brookside Drive. Police were aware there were several warrants out for Hazard's arrest. All four warrants were for failing to appear at scheduled court dates – for drug possession and domestic assault out of West Warwick and two incidences of non-support out of North Kingstown. After checks confirmed the warrants, police took Hazard into custody and later dropped him off at the ACI.

5:55 p.m. – Police arrested Jose Enrique Cottoq, 45, of Providence, on a Third District Court bench warrant after he was stopped by police on South County Trail during a search for bike thieves. Cottoq and his companion said they'd only been walking on South County Trail, but the man who called the police said he saw them pick up the bikes and ride them before dropping the bikes after they saw the man following them. Routine checks on both men turned up the warrant on Cottoq, who was taken into custody, processed and dropped off at the ACI. Police planned to follow up with the owner of the bikes as to possible charges.

7:50 p.m. – A New Lexington Road resident complained to police about a message on Facebook that talked about him cheating on his girlfriend. The message was posted by a neighbor who has been angry at the man for noise issues. The neighbor admitted to police the message was childish and said she would erase it. Police suggested the two parties also de-friend each other on Facebook. They told the woman to contact them if she had noise complaints.

9:45 p.m. – Police arrested Lore A. Voccola, 50, of McConnell Court, for vandalism and disorderly conduct, after she allegedly drove her car into another woman's car on purpose and yelled obscenities at the woman. Police took her into custody, she was processed at the station and released with a district court summons.

Sunday, Sept. 8

1:26 a.m. – A North Kingstown woman told police while driving south on Post Road she was hit by a Dodge pickup truck leaving the 7/11 gas station and the driver of the truck did not stop. The woman's car spun and traveled another 100 feet, ending up on the northbound side of the road, according to the report. The woman said she was not injured. Witnesses refused to provide statements. The 7/11 clerk said the woman driving the truck had pumped gas, paid for it in cash then left. He said there was video surveillance but police would need to talk to his manager.

8:56 a.m. – A Spencer Drive resident told police someone had stolen the tailgate off her son's truck overnight, while it was parked in the driveway. 

10:30 a.m. – A North Kingstown man told police his car had been vandalized while it was parked overnight on Phillips Street. He said he'd left it there at 9 p.m. Saturday but when he returned to it this morning, he found three of the four tires punctured and numerous pieces of boloney stuck to the left side of the car – four of which had a profanity carved into them. The man and his girlfriend, who at the Phillips Road address, said they thought it was the woman's ex-boyfriend, who had admitted to damaging the man's car in the past.

8:08 p.m. – Police arrested Linda M. McGowan-Langlois, 67, of Post Road in Wakefield, for driving while intoxicated and refusing a breath test to measure the amount of alcohol in her blood after she was stopped while driving south on Post Road near School Street. Police had been notified about a possible drunk driver in the area. Police saw McGowan-Langlois drive over a curb, back up over the curb, then continue driving. Police pulled her over. She said she'd had several glasses of wine at Chelo's in Warwick and was driving home, according to the report, which also said police could smell alcohol on her breath and her eyes were bloodshot. Police took her into custody after she failed a field sobriety test. She was processed at the station and released with the two court summonses and a laned-roadway violation.

4:26 p.m. – Police arrested Ronald P. Damico, 53, of Hatchery Road, for shoplifting after he was stopped by store personnel at Stop & Shop for leaving the store without paying for items he'd put in reusable bags. The goods amounted to $253.92. He was processed at the station, issued a court summons and no-trespass notice for Stop & Shop, and released.