Drug Officers Find Pack of Pit Bulls, Facebook Feud Triggers BB Attack

Drug raid finds crack – and 10 pit bulls

Police discovered far more than expected when they raided a suspected drug house in Woonsocket. The five-room apartment had about 18 grams of crack cocaine, about $2,000 in cash, one 33-year-old man charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute – and 10 pit bulls. Officers knew there were two or three dogs inside, but were stunned to find 10. A couple of the dogs were reportedly aggressive, but neither dogs nor officers were hurt. All the pit bulls were unlicensed and unvaccinated, and all were taken to an animal shelter.

 Facebook fued triggers BB attack

A Facebook dispute spilled into a beach parking lot in Portsmouth May 25, leading police to arrest a teenager and his older sister. The online quarrel spurred a group of eight to 10 people to meet face to face at Sandy Point Beach in Portsmouth a little before midnight (a school night, no less). Witnesses claim the 17-year-old from Middletown fired a weapon that looked like a gun from inside a car before the car took off. When police arrived, the teen’s older sister reported a man in a bandanna had fired the weapon. Police say that was a lie, and they arrested her for obstructing justice. Her younger brother was found later that night with a BB gun inside the waistband of his pants. They nabbed him for brandishing the weapon, and for having pot.

No hiding from the cabbie — even under the bed
A Providence woman tried to dodge cab fare to her grandmother's house in Johnston by hiding under grandma's bed. On May 18 at about 2 a.m., Johnston police officers were called to the scene when a cab driver reported his passenger did not pay her fare, which was $22. The woman allegedly handed the cabbie a United States Treasury check for $16 and said she was going to her grandmother’s apartment to get the rest. The driver waited 10 minutes before calling the police. The grandmother gave officers permission to search the apartment, and they found the woman hiding under her grandmother’s bed.

More proof that video games are a corrupting influence

A North Providence man who really, really, really wanted to play a video game lost the chance when he was hauled into a Newport jail cell instead. The 38-year-old was arrested around 2 a.m. on Monday, May 23, at a 7-Eleven after he rented a video game, got home and found the case empty, took a cab back to the store and demanded a new game. Since the store clerk did not have another game to offer the man, he offered a refund instead. The customer refused a refund, refused to leave until he got a new game and even refused to pay the cab fare, demanding that 7-Eleven pick up the tab. Instead, the cops picked him up and took him away.

 Drunk driver picks the wrong hiding spot

A Westport man who was allegedly driving drunk and hit a utility pole in Fall River managed to escape that city’s police, but could not evade Tiverton’s finest. The 53-year-old man pulled to the side of a main road in Tiverton but made one classic mistake – he was facing the wrong way. Tiverton officers found him sitting in a vehicle pointed south in the northbound lane. Needless to say, he failed a field sobriety test.

What did the fish ever do to you?

A 44-year-old Woonsocket woman won’t be getting a Christmas card from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) this year, after she flushed her boyfriend’s fish down the toilet during a lovers’ quarrel. The argument allegedly started after the 53-year-old boyfriend saw his girl in a car with another man. An argument escalated into throwing things and shoving, before the woman killed the man’s fish. When police arrived, they arrested the man, the woman and another man, who had the unfortunate luck to be sitting there with an active warrant out for his arrest.

There’s more than one way to kill a fish – machetes, anyone?

South Kingstown police officers called to a wooded area of town found three men, some pot, machetes and an innocent tree getting hacked to death. When officers questioned what they were doing, the men allegedly said they were trying to clear an area for fishing, though they had no fishing poles. The 21-year-old with the pot was taken into custody, and the other two fishermen were set free.

‘Dude, okay, I give up, you got me’

A South Kingstown man eventually changed his tune after North Kingstown police officers arrested him for drunk driving. Police were initially called to investigate a disabled vehicle at 1:50 in the morning. They found a man apparently asleep behind the wheel of the parked car with the driver’s door open and the engine running. After officers took the keys and woke the man up, the 24-year-old allegedly tried to leave before he discovered the keys were gone. He allegedly said: “Dude, I just want to go home.” Asked if he had been drinking, he allegedly said: “Dude, I didn’t even have that much.” He refused a field sobriety test, but officers found an open bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in the car. Asked about his drinking later at the station, he allegedly admitted: “I’m clearly hammered.”

Lawn Mower Becomes an Attack Weapon

A lawn mower became a weapon in a less than neighborly dispute in Middletown on Wednesday, when a man struck an elderly woman with the machine – blades not spinning. The two were arguing after she parked her car on the lawn in front of an apartment building. She said road construction forced her to park in the grass. The 35-year-old man was mowing at the time. In his version of the story, she attacked him, so he called 911 to report a trespasser. In her version, he shoved the lawnmower into her legs and knocked her down into the street. A witness agreed with the elderly woman’s story, and police hauled the young man away to be charged with simple assault.