Police Log: Trespassing, Friend assaults Friends, Public Drinking

PUBLIC DRINKING

Police said cited a cooperative Isaiah Alexander, 19, of 20 Chapel Street, for drinking in public after an officer on patrol on Thames Street at MIll Street saw him take a sip from a can of Bud Light Limarita at around 12:24 a.m.

Police said Alexander made eye contact with the officer and hid the can quickly, but admitted to police that he was drinking. The beer was disposed of at the scene and he was issued a Municipal Court summons with a Sept. 15 court date.

SIMPLE ASSAULT

Police charged Sabrina M. Maher, 23, of 2 Potter St., Newport, with two counts of simple assault after she allegedly attacked two women she had been hanging out with during the day Tuesday.

Police said they responded to a city address to take the complaint from two women, aged 24 and 27 respectively, who said that Maher became upset after getting a traffic ticket in Middletown.

The three had been driving in Maher’s call all day and after getting the ticket, she got upset, took a Klonopin and later, back at one of the victim’s houses in Newport, she started drinking.

Eventually, the victims said Maher became violent and attacked them.

Police said both women were not seriously hurt, and Maher was arrested for DUI a short time after midnight by Portsmouth Police.

Maher was transferred to Newport where she was charged and released to the custody of Portsmouth Police with a Sept. 3 Second Division Court Date for the Newport charges.