East Greenwich Man Charged for Boesch Farm Road Break In

A 20-year-old East Greenwich man has been charged with felony breaking and entering for slipping into a Boesch Farm Road house through an open garage door and stealing nearly $50,000 worth of valuables, according to police.

And the investigation bore fruit in the form of an arrest of a Warwick man who bought the stolen goods and was found to be in possession of items linking him to numerous other unsolved break-ins and thefts from cars across the area.

Harris K. Moid, of 95 River Farm Drive, allegedly entered the house while the residents were away and stole a computer, women’s hand bags, two sets of silver flatware, and jewelry, according to a police report.

On the morning of Aug. 16, police were contacted by the residents who said they discovered their house ransacked when they got home. They had been away since 11 a.m. the day before, they told police.

Police said Moid entered the garage by way of an unlocked door and then got into the house through another unlocked door.

Along with the stolen items, police reportedly found a TV in the garage that had been removed from inside the house next to a black glove.

Police’s path to Moid’s arrest was laid through old fashioned police work and help from alert neighbors and cooperating subjects.

It began with a canvas of the neighborhood and police learned that a young man was seen walking down the street carrying women’s handbags. Police said Moid is a person of interest in a number of prior breaking and entering cases and was recently convicted of the crime with matching circumstances: entering through an unlocked garage door and then ransacking the house.

Using a Facebook photo, police were told that the man walking down the street looked like Moid.

Moid himself then called police later that afternoon, asking police for a ride to the house at 95 River Farm Drive, which is where he had been living and still uses as his permanent address but was actually thrown out of, police said.

As officers stayed at the River Farm Drive house to keep the peace, Moid was asked about his involvement. He appeared to want to talk about it “but just wasn’t ready,” according to a police report.

The investigation continued and police were able to determine that Moid had recently been staying with another man in a motel room in Warwick. Over the past few days, Moid had been driven to several different locations including the address of Kevin A. Gilchrist, of 130 Pilgrim Parkway in Warwick.

Police said Gilchrist was acting as a fence and was being used by Moid to get rid of stolen goods for cash. After the break-in in East Greenwich, Moid allegedly sent text messages to an individual with pictures of the stolen flatware asking where he could get rid of them. He then later allegedly said that he had left the flatware at Gilchrist’s house and was paid about $400 for some of the stolen goods.

Police got a warrant for Gilchrist’s apartment and arrived at around 9 p.m. to serve it.

They were initially denied access by Gilchrist and his grandfather, with whom he shares the apartment, but were let in after about 10 minutes. Police forcibly entered Gilchrist’s locked bedroom and found in a closet and under the bed “many items. . .linking [him] to the break along with several Warwick PD house breaks and car larcenies,” the police report stated.

Gilchrist was taken into custody by Warwick Police.

Among the items, East Greenwich detectives found the flatware and some of the jewelry stolen from Boesch Farm Road.

A short time before the search at Gilchrist’s apartment in Warwick, Moid called police several times saying that he wanted to come in to talk to detectives. An officer driving on Post Road saw Moid waving him down and he was driven to police headquarters where he “admitted to breaking in to the residence,” the police report stated.

Moid was arraigned Monday in District Court and entered no plea to charges of felony breaking and entering and felony larceny. Bail was set on $10,000 with surety.

He was ordered held without bail as a bail violator.

He is due to return to court on Aug. 31 for a bail violation hearing.

Gilchrist is also being held without bail as a violator for violating his probation on a 2013 conviction for narcotics possession. Warwick Police charged him with felony receiving stolen goods and bail was set at $5,000 with surety on the new charge.