Candy, Flowers & Blackmail
Posted by Samantha Turner (Editor)
in the Narragansett-South
Kingstown Patch
When cards, flowers and
candy fail to hold your relationship together, there’s always extortion. Well,
at least one Newport man thought so.
Instead of finding
himself in the arms of his lady love, this 53-year-old man found himself in the back of a police
cruiser after he threatened to release explicit photos and video of his
girlfriend if she left him.
Not one to buckle to
blackmail, the girlfriend (presumably ex-girlfriend now) reached out to the
State Police. They arrested the man on charges of extortion, cyber harassment
and cyber stalking.
Oh, and they also
discovered he was wanted on a bench warrant for failing to appear in court on
charges of obtaining money under false pretenses.
Not-So Covert Ops
A group of Barrington
teens needs a lesson in law…and perhaps discretion and stealth. Three teenage boys were less than discrete as they
dragged a green cooler into the woods at 4:30 p.m. (i.e. broad daylight).
A resident called
police after he saw one of the teens stop to urinate behind a dumpster. Police
arrived to search the area and it wasn’t long before they spotted the group,
which quickly fled the area.
Based on the remaining
booty of booze (30 unopened cans of Busch beer and three partially consumed
beer cans), police intervened just in time.
I Don’t Like This Line of Questioning
A Massachusetts man
took particular exception to his girlfriend’s accusations that he wasn’t fit to
drive after he had been drinking. To prove that he was fine to drive, the man
allegedly put the car in reverse and pinned his girlfriend
between the truck and a wall.
To further prove the
point, the man also reportedly got out of the car, punched her in the face and
then left. The 28-year-old man returned to the scene as officers spoke with the
woman and tried to flee, but police were able to run him down.
He was charged with
domestic felony assault and domestic simple assault.
