CRIME & SAFETY

CRANSTON, R.I. (WLNE) — A man is facing charges for allegedly threatening to injure former Cranston Mayor Michael Napolitano on Tuesday. According to police, 59-year-old Mark Ruggieri, a cousin of former Mayor Napolitano, is charged with domestic disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Responding officers said they arrived at Napolitano’s...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — A tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 95 north in Providence caused early morning delays on Thursday. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation said the crash happened near exit 35, Thurbers Avenue. State police said just before 6:30 a.m. that traffic was down to one lane. The...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A woman is in serious condition after she was shot late Tuesday night in Providence. Police said the woman was shot while sitting in a car on Fillmore Street around 11:30 p.m. She was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries, police said. No arrests...

Warwick Police arrested a man after a road rage incident on Tuesday. Peter Grossi, 54, from Coventry, was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct. The incident occurred on East Avenue. Grossi allegedly attacked a 19-year-old while stopped at a red light. Police say the 19 year old victim took...

Dozens of officers responded to a disturbance involving students after school let out at Kennedy Plaza on Tuesday.

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island Hospital nurse critically injured earlier this month after allegedly being assaulted by a patient is in the thoughts of his colleagues, while the attack is on the radar of criminal investigators. As of Monday, Scott Amaral, 53, of Johnston, was still in critical condition...

Around 2:20 a.m., Aug. 6, Warwick Police Officer Andrew J. Chretien was on routine patrol traveling west on East Avenue when he spotted a black Chevy Tahoe traveling east at a high rate of speed (clocked at 66 mph in a posted 40 mph zone). Chretien made a U-turn, accelerating...

BOSTON – A Rhode Island man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a nationwide conspiracy to traffic controlled substances from Arizona into Massachusetts. According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 38-year-old Nathan Boddie of Pawtucket, R.I. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge...

SMITHFIELD – A town resident, Teresa Graham, is seeking compensation and other relief arising from alleged inappropriate conduct experienced while working in Smithfield Town Hall, including accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment, a hostile work environment, and retaliation. Town labor attorney Vincent Ragosta is calling the lawsuit a baseless...

ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WLNE) — A convenience store clerk was robbed at gunpoint in Attleboro on Wednesday night. Police were called to Border Bets and Butts on Washington Street just after 10 p.m. after an employee reported a suspect pulled out a gun and demanded money and rolling papers. The...

Overnight, a woman was shot and taken to Rhode Island Hospital. The shooting took place on Admiral Street near the Dunkin’ Donuts — in the Chad Brown area. No arrests were made, and Providence detectives are investigating. The Chad Brown area continues to be a hot spot for...

HAMPSTEAD, N.H. (WBZNewsRadio) - Two men from Rhode Island are in custody and facing charges, after four vehicles were stolen from DC Motors in Hampstead, New Hampshire, earlier this year. The incident happened back on Sunday, March 12, 2023. Police were called to DC Motors on Stage road for a...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha said that a Pawtucket man who previously admitted to fentanyl and firearm possession was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Adrian Montalvo pled guilty in April to charges of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl...

Heidi Chace, 44, was found murdered in her Freetown home. Matthew Lucas, 54, her housemate and prime suspect in the case, is in police custody and is due to appear in court. The murder investigation has centered on their neighborhood and the details are still being investigated. Lucas was found and arrested near the scene in a shed.

Michael Pinto, a 40-year-old man from Providence, was fatally shot in an encounter with local police after allegedly attempting to ram a Burrillville police officer with his car.

The devastating fire on Brightman Street, Fall River, has prompted a $5,000 reward for information on its cause. The fire ravaged a historic, vacant commercial building that once served as a theatre and casket company.

A 21-year-old man was also injured in the crash.

FALL RIVER (WBSM) — A Dighton man who led Rehoboth Police on a chase through multiple towns and into Rhode Island before causing a serious collision, all while high on drugs, was sentenced to state prison recently. According to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn, Cary Guy, 31, pleaded...

PAWTUCKET – Police apprehended an Attleboro man Friday morning after he allegedly tried to pay for groceries with a bogus $100 bill at Vicente’s Supermarket, 470 Pawtucket Ave. Officers later charged Vuthy Kong, 42, of 64 South Ave. – a suspect well known to Pawtucket police – with...