Police Log: Security Guard Told to Not Cuff People, Customer Leaves Behind the Undesired

CYBERSTALKING COMPLAINT
A 46-year-old woman told police on Spet. 22 that she has been getting threatening messages from a Coventry woman on Facebook and via text message and wanted the matter documented.

Police said the woman told them that she learned that her live-in boyfriend used to date the suspected cyberstalker.

DOMESTIC
Police charged Dianne Smith, 57, of 153 Duke St., East Greenwich, with domestic simple assault and domestic disorderly conduct Sept. 23 at 6:52 p.m.

Police said Smith assaulted a man near the East Greenwich Yacht Club and dumped a beer on him.

TIRES SLASHED
A 35-year-old man told police on Sept. 23 that his front and rear tires were slashed while parked in front of 312 Main St. on Sept. 23.

Police said the man parked his Buick at around 4 p.m. and a neighbor told him his tires were slashed at around 10 p.m.

PHONE STOLEN
An employee of La Masseria told police on Sept. 24 that a cell phone he left in his car outside work was stolen sometime during the evening.

The man said he was working valet when the incident occurred.

The phone, an iPhone 5, was stolen at around 10:30 p.m., police said.

The matter was documented for insurance purposes.

MAN FLEES FROM SECURITY GUARD
On Sept. 25 at around 12:13 a.m., police were contacted by a security guard working at East Greenwich Square at 1000 Division St. who said he was just assaulted by a man who had fled the scene on foot, leaving his truck behind.

Police arrived and saw a handcuffed woman in the back of the security guard’s vehicle.

The guard said he was working a detail when a truck pulled up next to his and the male driver and female passenger asked for directions.

The guard said he could smell alcohol and ordered the two occupants to step out of the vehicle. They did, but the man ran off, leaving the woman behind when the guard tried to detain them.

Police uncuffed the woman and she got a ride home.

The man who ran off, police said, does not have an active license. His truck, a 2002 Ford F-150, was locked and the key was kept by police for safekeeping.

The guard was informed to contact police if he sees illegal activity and to “no longer handcuff or detain citizens if he does not have the proper training or certification to do so,” a police report stated.

CUSTOMER LEAVES BEHIND SOMETHING UNDESIRED

A manager at Exotic Tans on Division Street reported finding a pool of urine in a room used by a customer on Sept. 26 for a spray tanning procedure and wished to file a complaint.

Police said the manager told them that she went into the room to clean a spray-tanning machine and found the urine all over the floor. Some had seeped into a rug and under the machine and the wall.

Police said the manager said she didn’t know if the customer had a medical condition that would cause the incident. She said that the business had had similar incidents with other customers in the past.

WALLET STOLEN
A 57-year-old North Kingstown woman told police that black Coach wallet was taken from her purse and most likely while she was visiting an East Greenwich resident on Sept. 21.

Police said the woman reported the incident on Sept. 26 and said she had looked everywhere for the wallet, concluding it had been stolen while at the town address.

Police are investigating.

JEWELRY STOLEN

On Sept. 27, a Cedar Ave. woman told police that more than $2,700 worth of jewelry had been stolen from her dresser sometime after Aug. 25.

Police said the items stolen included a gold sand dollar pendant with chain, gold key pendant with change, a snowflake pendant, helicopter maple seeds pendant and a large gold flat snake chain.

The woman said she did not wish to press charges.

WALLET FOUND
On Spet. 27, a 24-year-old Melrose St. woman brought a wallet to police headquarters, telling police that she found it in the parking lot at Pierce and Melrose Streets.

The wallet contained ID cards and credit cards and the owner, who lives on Pierce Street, told police that nothing was missing when he came to pick it up.

B&E
Police are investigating a break-in at an Oak Dell Circle house that occurred on Sept. 28 when the resident was at work, police said.

The suspect stole 10 pairs of sneakers, medication, a laptop, 32 inch TV, 42 inch TV, two Xbox 370s, a PlayStation 3, an Xbox One, 30 videogames, an iPhone 4 and two Xbox controllers.

Police said the victim was notified of the theft when a friend stopped by to retrieve clothing from the house.

Police are investigating.

DOMESTIC
Police charged Adrian V. Lombard, 39, of 30 Long St., East Greenwich, with domestic disorderly conduct Sept. 28 at 4:36 a.m.

DISPUTE
A man and two women are facing separate charges engaging in an altercation at Finn’s Harbourside on Water Street on Sept. 28.

Charged were Luigi Maletesta, 44, of 25 Squirrels Run, West Greenwich, with domestic simple assault; Jennifer L. Hart, 42, of 39 Dale Ave., Johnston, charged with disorderly conduct; and Wendy L. Zelano, 41, of 8 Cedar Pond Drive, Warwick, with disorderly conduct.