Police Log: Money, Rings Stolen, Teamsters' Snoopy's Trip Causes Bus Yard Alarm

LITTLE LEAGUE MONEY STOLEN
Police are investigating the theft of around $80 from a cash drawer used by the East Greenwich Little League Association.

Police said the president of the association told police on Oct. 13 that they realized the money was missing about a week earlier and weren’t able to figure out exactly when it went missing or who could have done it.

Police documented the incident.

DUI
East Greenwich Police charged Kathryn Cranston, 47, of 79 W. Allenton Road, North Kingstown, with driving under the influence and refusing a chemical test Oct. 14 a 7:28 p.m.

Police said Cranston was reported to be driving drunk by several motorists who saw her allegedly swerving along Main Street.

Police eventually caught up with Cranston near Benny’s on Post Road and saw her speeding 46 mph in a 35 mph zone as well as swerve3 in and out of her lane.

Cranston reportedly showed signs of intoxication and failed a field sobriety test.

HANDBAGS RETURNED
East Greenwich police returned a pair of handbags to a West Greenwich woman after a construction worker found them in a Dumpster at 1000 Division St. were ongoing renovations are taking place.

Police said the worker found the bags in the Dumpster and they contained personal information that led police to the West Greenwich woman who reportedly was the victim of a larceny in North Kingstown.

The bags were stolen from the woman’s car, police said, and East Greenwich police held on to them until the woman could come to police headquarters to pick them up.

CAR DAMAGED
A 22-year-old Warwick woman told police on Oct. 15 that her car was damaged while she drove on Post Road near Hill Top Creamery and something was kicked up or fell off a car in front of her.

The woman told police that she saw a pipe come out from underneath a silver SUV that was in front of her, causing two small scratches on the door.

The woman claimed the pipe came from the SUV’s undercarriage.

But when police tracked down the owner of the SUV, he said the vehicle is a new 2014 lease and has virtually no wear and tear. He also said he didn’t remember hitting anything while driving along Post Road.

FOLDER STOLEN
On Oct. 18, a Fall River couple reported the theft of a folder that contained personal information from their van outside a Grandview Drive home.

Police said the couple was painting a house and the folder was inside the unlocked van out front.

The file contained tax papers, business documents and other items. Nothing else was taken from inside the vehicle.

Police are investigating.

RINGS STOLEN
A Limerock Drive resident on Oct. 6 told police that a gold wetting band and University of Rhode Island class ring were stolen from inside a bedroom dresser.

Police said the man noticed the rings missing on Sept. 17.

Both the wedding band and 1976 URI class ring were engraved.

The resident said the rings were valued at about $1,600 combined and he believed that someone working for a cleaning crew might be responsible.

Police are investigating.

ID FRAUD
A Walnut Drive couple told police that they were recently the victims of identity theft.

On Oct. 6, police took a report from the residents, who said their tax return was rejected in April when they filed their tax return.

The message they received was that their taxes had already been filed, police said, and on June 16, they got a letter from the Oklahoma Tax Commission stating they needed additional information to file a 2013 tax return.

The residents contacted the Oklahoma Commission officer who told them to report the incident to police and complete some identity theft forms.

The matter was documented.

ITEMS STOLEN FROM VAN
A South Pierce Road resident told police on Oct. 7 that someone smashed the window to his work van and stole a vacuum, sanding machine and a buffer sometime overnight.

The value of the items was $9,000, police said, and they were stolen from the cargo area of the truck.

The man told police that he left the truck locked up when he went inside for the night at around 7 p.m. When he came out around 7 a.m. he saw the window was smashed, the doors were unlocked and the items were missing.

JUST PARKING
A report of Teamsters in a truck harassing bus company drivers on Oct. 7 near Ocean State Transit Bus Co. on South County Trail was an apparent misunderstanding, police said.

An officer was dispatched to the Richard’s Pub parking area at around 7:45 a.m. for a report of Teamsters harassing bus drivers.

Upon arrival, police found a Teamsters Local 251 truck parked in the restaurant lot occupying multiple spaces.

The reporting party said the truck went through the bus yard and blew its horn. Two men then got out and met up with two other men from other cars. They stood in front of the Ocean State Transit shed and took a picture, she said.

Afterwards, they left but the truck remained.

Police spoke with the owner of Richard’s Pub, who said it was OK for the truck to be there for a short while.

Then, a lawyer representing the Teamsters arrived and asked if there was a problem and made a call to find out why exactly the truck was there.

Moments later, the four men arrived and told police they used the bus yard to turn around and had parked in the area because it could fit the truck. They then all went for a ride to Snoopy’s Diner for a meal.

The reason they blew the horn was because they saw someone move their arm in an up/down motion as if to request the horn be used, according to a police report.

The men left the scene without incident. The matter was documented.