Woonsocket Police Arrest Man for Pushing Mother, Sister During Argument

Woonsocket Police Officer Andrew Girard responded to the area of Rockridge Drive for a report of a disturbance at about 8:47 p.m., but was unable to locate anyone who could provide further details.

While searching the neighborhood, Girard found a 22-year-old with grass stains on his jeans who looked like he'd been in some type of struggle. When Girard asked him his name, the young man said "Don't worry about it."

Woonsocket Police Officer Gregory Klocek inquired further, discovering the man's name was Ariel Hernandez, 22. When asked if he knew anything about the disturbance, Hernandez replied again, "Don't worry about it." The man had no warrants for his arrest and was allowed to go on his way.

Later that night, 9:12 p.m., Officer Timothy Greene was dispatched back to the neighborhood at 217 Rockridge Drive, Apt. E. for another disturbance. Greene spoke with Gaudis Stengel, 27, who told him she and her mother, Lurdes, 48, had been assaulted by her brother, Ariel Hernandez. 

Gaudis said she'd gotten into an argument with a friend of Hernandez's, and he had become angry at her about it, yelling and screaming at her, trying to push her, she said, according to Greene's report. When Lurdes attempted to intervene, he pushed her away and continued pushing her. The two women fled into the house, locking the door, but Hernandez went to the rear of the apartment and began banging on the glass door there, to the point she thought he might break it.

Greene remembered the name from earlier in the evening, and parked his cruiser where he could watch the house. Hernandez returned to the home at about 9:30 p.m., and Greene arrested him, charging him with domestic simple assault and domestic disorderly conduct.