Police Arrest Man for Knifepoint Robbery, Break-Ins, Auto Theft

Cranston police nabbed an alleged one-man crime machine on Friday with the arrest of Kwame Colon, 18, of 9 Welfare Ave.

Colon, since September, broke into a house and stole a car on Beckwith St., robbed someone at the intersection of Melrose and Rugby Streets at knifepoint and broke into a Reservoir Avenue house.

On Thursday, Colon was on his way out of the parking lot of the Motel 6 on Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick when Cranston and Warwick police officers surrounded him.

Detectives had been plugging away for weeks piecing together evidence and gathering information to pin Colon to the crimes, starting with the first break-in on Sept. 17.

Police said the car was stolen from the same house Colon had broken into and the vehicle was later located in Providence.

Colon was eventually identified as a suspect by the department’s Criminal Investigations Unit and they got a court warrant for his arrest on a felony larceny charge.

Police got an arrest warrant for first degree robbery and conspiracy after the Nov. 6 knifepoint robbery and on Nov. 11, police said he broke into the house on Reservoir ave, leading to another breaking and entering charge.

Uniform officers tracked Colon to the Motel 6 and his arrest was without incident, police said.

He was arraigned on Friday in Third Division District Court and ordered held without bail on the robbery and conspiracy charges from the incident with the knife. Bail was set at $5,000 with surety each for the break-in and larceny at Beckwith Street and the break-in at Reservoir Avenue.