Stolen Bakery Truck Joyride Ends In Crash At Construction Site

PROVIDENCE, RI — A Providence man is accused of stealing and crashing a bakery delivery truck early Thursday morning, then spraying a fire extinguisher at two construction workers.

According to state police, a Calise Bakery delivery truck was stolen from their Niantic Avenue facility in Cranston around 6 a.m. Nicholas Brown, 29, is accused of driving the truck onto Route 10 North, sideswiping another vehicle near the Union Avenue off-ramp. He kept driving, taking the Westminster Street exit.

According to police, Brown then turned left, hitting another vehicle and causing it to crash into a utility pole. Again, he kept driving, going over a curb and crashing through a chain link fence into the Route 6/10 construction site, crashing into a parked excavator.

Two construction workers at the site went to the truck to see if Brown was okay. Brown then climbed out of the truck with a fire extinguisher, spraying it at the pair, police said. He then tried to get into other vehicles at the construction site, police said, and was again approached by the two construction workers, as well as someone who was in one of the vehicles he hit. He attacked one of them and was eventually stopped by a state police trooper, who was assigned to the construction site.

Brown was arrested and charged with stealing and possessing a vehicle, two counts of leaving the scene of an accident, three counts of simple assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He was arraigned in Sixth Division District Court and given a $10,000 bail with surety, and taken to the Adult Correctional Institution as a bail violator of a previous charge of simple assault and disorderly conduct.