Police Log: Serial Eggings, Donuts on High School Field, Man Caught with 56 Grams of Pot

DOCUMENTS STOLEN
A Sanctuary Drive woman told police on July 6 that someone stole personal documents from her night stand.

Police said the victim told officers that her Social Security card, birth certificate and medical records were located in the top drawer and she last saw them on July 3.

TURF FIELD DAMAGED
Police documented damage at the grass fields at East Greenwich High School on July 9.

A witness told police what looked to be young males in an SUV drove onto the grass and carved donuts in the turf. After several circles, they drove away.

HIT AND RUN ARREST
Police charged Jack E. Osenkowski, 20, of 160 Crompton Road, East Greenwich, with disorderly conduct and leaving the scene of an accident on July 11 at 5 p.m.

Police said Osenkowski allegedly struck a vehicle belonging to a person with whom he was involved in a dispute over a woman. The accident happened at the intersection of Lynn Circle and Fernwood Drive.

Police said Osenkowski was arguing with the victim over the course of a two hour period over the phone. The victim told police he was at a friend’s house and left. While driving down the street, Osenkowski happened to drive by, saw the victim, turned around and started following him, according to a police report.

The victim said that as he started to turn out of the intersection, Osenkowski bumped his car, got out and then punched his window.

Police said Osenkowki was arrested the next day without incident and was cooperative with police.

He is due to appear in court on July 24.

EGGING
A Grandview Road resident told police on July 12 that her house got egged overnight yet again.

Police said the resident told police that she believed the egging happened at around 1:15 a.m.

While talking to the resident, another resident walked over and told police that he was woken up at around 1:20 a.m. and heard what sounded like a four-cylinder engine speed away. Based on the engine noise, it sounded like a small car.

The eggings have reportedly been happening with some regularity since February.

“Both parties express frustration regarding the incident,” a police report stated.

WOMAN FEEDING FERAL CATS
East Greenwich police took a report of an injured feral cat from a Marlborough Street woman who said on July 6 that she has been feeding feral cats in the area.

The woman said one of the cats she has been feeding was hurt, so she brought it inside.

She noticed a hole on the cat’s back and she tried to take care of it but when she realized she couldn’t “render anymore aid to it,” she brought it to the veterinary clinic on Main Street. There, she was told that she’d have to take financial responsibility for the cat. It was then that she called police, who brought the cat to the North Kingstown Animal Hospital to take custody.

Police said the animal control officer will be following up on the matter.

THEFT FROM DAVE’S
East Greenwich police are investigating the theft of several items from Dave’s Marketplace on July 6.

An employee of the Division Street supermarket told police on July 7 that a middle-aged woman with blonde hair put several items in her purse and left the store without paying for them.

Police reviewed security camera footage and reported identifying a suspect, a 50-year-old woman from Warwick. Court records show she has not yet been arrested as of Tuesday.

CONFUSION OVER IDENTITY
A bartender at Finn’s Harbourside had a strange encounter with a customer who apparently thought she was a different woman with the same name, according to police.

On July 8, the woman told police that a man came into the bar on July 4 and gave her a business card with ”$1,500” written on it.

He told her that “she should think about it.”

The bartender said she didn’t know what he was talking about, to which he replied that “he had been attempting to contact her to have her sign some paperwork regarding a property deed her and her husband are on,” according to a police report.

The property, located in West Warwick, is owned by a woman with the same name and the bartender insisted that she had no idea what he was talking about.

The man then leaned over the bar and “says that if he has to, he will deposition her in his office and get her to sign the paperwork,” the report stated.

The bartender said she was nervous to leave work that night and nervous to go into work that weekend.

She later discovered a Facebook message regarding the same issue that the man had sent her in March in which he said “he knew it was her on the deed to the house in question because it was her and her husband listed on the deed.”

Police investigated and confirmed that the house in question did belong to a woman with the same first and last name, but the middle initial was different. An officer soon made contact with the man, identified as a 45-year-old Foster man. Police said he seemed confused and apologized.

MARIJUANA
East Greenwich police charged a 27-year-old North Kingstown man with misdemeanor marijuana possession July 9 after he was found carrying 56 grams of pot in a wooded area by a creek off South County Trail.

Police said they responded to the area of 3411 South County Trail after a report of a suspicious person in the woods. The man was described as standing on a wooden log by the brook by a resident’s property line.

Police arrived and saw Michael Patrick Lunt, 27, of 1475 Ten Rod Road, North Kingstown, smoking marijuana. The responding officer reported shouting towards him but got no response.

Another officer arrived and they started making their way down the creek to where Lunt was standing. They reported smelling marijuana as they approached.

Lunt said he had been there for about a half hour and was smoking marijuana.

In a black backpack, police found a large Ziploc bag containing 56 grams of marijuana and a scale.

Lunt told police he has a California medical marijuana card but didn’t have it on him.

Police took Lunt into custody without incident and he was charged with possession of an ounce or more of marijuana. He was also issued a no-trespass order.

He was arraigned in Third Division District Court on July 17 and entered a no-contest plea to the charge. The case was filed for one year and he was ordered to pay court costs and assessments.

In Rhode Island, possession of more than one ounce of marijuana is a misdemeanor.