Crime & Safety

Police Log: Drunks, Mobile Home Hit, Crank Calls

Information about the following incidents was supplied by the North Kingstown Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.

June 25, 8:59 a.m.: Patrol Ofc. Thomas Menec went to 6200 Post Road for a report of damage to a mobile home. The owner, Eric Matteson, said he had recently returned from knee replacement surgery to find his home damaged. Menec said Matteson suspected a neighbor, but the neighbor denied causing the damage and said it had been there 'for years,' according to Menec's report.

9:33 a.m.:
Patrol Ofc. Raymond Ho responded to Kohl's at 110 Gate Road for a report of a drunk man urinating on the property. A witness told officers that the man then got into his car and left the store parking lot. Ho and Patrol Ofc. Scott Cline found the man's car parked, with its engine running, in a handicapped spot at the Courtyard Marriott. The driver, identified as Subhransu Mohanty, was sitting unconscious in the driver's seat. Ho said he eventually woke up Mohanty and asked him to shut off the car. Ho wrote in his report that he saw a 1.75L bottle of Johnny Walker Black in the vehicle, and ordered Mohanty out of the car for a field sobriety test, which Mohanty refused. At the police station, Mohanty also refused a chemical test, Ho reported. Officers charged Mohanty with DUI; refusal to submit to a chemical test, second offense; and disorderly conduct. He is scheduled for formal arraignment on July 9.

June 26, 8:45 p.m.: Patrol Ofc. Timothy Daly went to a home on Lenox Court for a report of crank phone calls. The victim told Daly that his girlfriend had called 39 times in 45 minutes. According to Daly, the victim said his girlfriend was calling about belongings she had left at his house. Daly wrote that the girlfriend agreed to stop calling the victim, and that a mutual friend would handle the belongings for the girlfriend.

June 29, 10:06 a.m.: Patrol Ofc. Ann Cunningham responded to 9 Yorktown Road for a report of vandalism to a car. The owner of the car said that he'd 'had a problem with his ex-girlfriend' the night before, and when he went out to the car that morning he found the left front tire flat. Cunningham wrote that she found a 3/4-in. cut in the tire. Cunningham then went to speak with the girlfriend, who denied having anything to do with the cut tire. Later in the day, the girlfriend called police headquarters saying the car owner was at her house causing a disturbance. Cunningham wrote that officers told the two not to contact each other.

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