South Kingstown Man Ordered to Serve Probation for NK Scrap Metal Theft

WAKEFIELD – A South Kingstown man has been ordered to serve two years of probation and to pay restitution after pleading no contest in Washington County Superior Court to charges of stealing scrap metal.

Robert J. Pimental, 47, of 32 Greenwood Drive, South Kingstown, pleaded no contest on April 4 to a North Kingstown police charge of receiving stolen goods worth more than $500.

Superior Court Associate Justice William E. Carnes, Jr. ordered Pimental to serve two years probation, and to pay $450 in assessments and restitution. The restitution would be determined at a future court hearing before a magistrate.

According to North Kingstown police reports included in court files, on Dec. 8 a 67-year-old business owner on Sextant Lane reported that a man was taking scrap metal from his business without permission.

The owner told police that he suspected a man named Robert who had asked if he could have it several days before. However, the owner did not have a last name for Robert. The owner said that when he went to a metal yard in South Kingstown, he saw his scrap metal there and called police.

According to police, workers at the South Kingstown metal yard didn’t know the man who had sold them the metal. However, the man – Pimental – came back on Dec. 18, at which point workers wrote his plate down for police.

Police said they made contact with Pimental and issued a warrant for his arrest. He turned himself in on Dec. 23.