🌱 Nightclub Manager Arrested For Bribery + Unqualified Recruits

Happy Friday, people of Providence! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening in Providence today.

First, today's weather:

Sunshine and patchy clouds. High: 50 Low: 32.

Here are the top stories in Providence today:

1. A Providence nightclub manager was arrested for allegedly attempting to bribe a Board of Licenses official. Daniel Marlo Caraballo, manager of the Broad Street nightclub Lit Lounge, asked an official for help while filling out paperwork, and upon completion, handed the employee a white envelope containing $2,000 in cash. Caraballo is being charged with one count of bribery of a public official. (GoLocalProv)
2. The Providence police union has accused the city of dismissing academy policy and pushing unqualified recruits through the process. The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3 said in a statement that the city is picking and choosing “which policies are worthy of being strictly adhered to and those that can be bent to fit a desired outcome.” Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements is defending the decision, stating the department’s firearms policy and training curriculum is currently being reviewed and will be amended as needed ahead of next year’s training academy. (WPRI.com)
3. Senators grilled school officials on Wednesday about the 124 vacant teacher positions in Providence. (WPRI.com)
4. The Providence priest who is facing child pornography charges, Father James W. Jackson, appeared in federal court on Wednesday morning. (Providence Patch)
5. A man was critically injured in a shooting inside a Providence home on Coggeshall Street just before 6 p.m. on Wednesday night. (WJAR)

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About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.