Pawtucket Man With Extensive Record Busted In RISP Traffic Stop

PAWTUCKET, RI — A Pawtucket man with a long criminal record is now charged with first-offense DUI, driving with a suspended license third offense, using counterfeit or forged registration plates, and refusal to submit to a chemical test.

Rhode Island State Police stopped a vehicle on Broad Street in Pawtucket around 8 p.m. Monday and arrested Ricardo Graham, 53, of 150 North Bend Street. In addition to his new motor vehicle charges, Graham was presented to the court this morning as a bail violator.

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Judicial records show that Graham has been arrested many times since at least 1987, when he was busted on a drug charge. Since then, he’s made court appearances for crimes ranging from domestic violence to robbery to shoplifting to a March 1989 escape from a correctional institute.

In 2016, he was accused of robbing a man at knifepoint in Pawtucket. In that case he pleaded nolo to a larceny charge and was sentenced to five years with four suspended and referred to a substance abuse assessment.

Graham was arrested in late 2019 in Providence and accused of violating a no-contact order in a domestic violence case, third offense, records show. On Feb. 3, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to five years with four suspended and credit for time served. He was ordered to attend batterer’s intervention, told to have no contact with the victim, and assessed $578.

Graham was due to be arraigned this morning in connection with Monday’s arrest.