Police: Man Urinates on Sunglass Hut

A 22-year-old Middletown man was charged with urinating in public early Friday morning after a Newport patrol officer saw him relieve himself on the side of Sunglass Hut on Thames Street.

Police said Gordon Z. Wallace, of 629 Wolcott Ave., Middletown, was seen by the patrolman at around 12:35 a.m. as he was heading south on Thames Street near the Gas Lamp Grill.

The officer, according to a police report, stopped, got out of his car and Wallace immediatley apologized.

He was cited at the scene and is due to appear in Municipal Court on March 16.

WARRANTS
Police charged Richard Damar Smith, 35, of 293 Oxford St., Providence, with three warrants early Friday morning.

Police said Smith was wanted by Family Court for a body attachment and two Second Division District Court warrants -- one for failing to appear for an ability to pay conference and another for failing to appear for a sentencing violation hearing conference.

Police said they arrested Smith after investigating a complaint about an unreturned rental car shortly before midnight.

Smith allegedly was using the car rented by a Newport woman and hadn’t returned when he promised.

After looking for Smith at several locations, he eventually was found in a parking lot behind an apartment building on Ranger Road at around 12:50 a.m.

He was held overnight for arraignment in court Friday morning.