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The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Johnston Police. Chief Richard S. Tamburini or Deputy Chief Daniel Parrillo has reviewed all reports.

RESISTANCE

Patrolman Andrew Broccoli reports he responded to an undisclosed address on July 24 around 12 a.m. to speak with a woman who was said to be the victim of a domestic assault. He said he immediately noticed swelling around her neck and throat area, suggesting she had been strangled. He said she also had bloodshot eyes but they appeared to be caused by “subconjunctival hemorrhaging, broken blood vessels in either eye.”

The woman reportedly told Broccoli she and her boyfriend were at Reali’s restaurant on Putnam Avenue having drinks when she and the staff managed to get the car keys away from her boyfriend, who she said clearly had too much to drink in a short amount of time. She said he sat in the car and refused to get out, so she left him there to sober up while she walked to his apartment to call someone for a ride home. She said she was leaving his apartment when she met him in the hallway and he demanded, “Where are my [expletive] keys,” before charging her, grabbing her throat with both hands and choking her. She said she didn’t know how long he choked her, but did say she felt like she was going to die and briefly went unconscious. She said she woke up and he punched her in the head five or six times. She left when her ride arrived and called police from her friend’s house.

Broccoli said he and a number of other officers when to 75 Putnam Ave. and knocked on her boyfriend’s apartment door. He said a male voice in side yelled “[Expletive] you!” but did come to the door eventually and it was apparent that he was extremely drunk. Broccoli said he asked the man what happened and he said he was in his apartment all night and didn’t know where his girlfriend was. The patrolman reports the man did not appear to be affected by the news that she was injured and said he did not wish to speak with police.

The man was arrested and escorted downstairs, where he thrust his knee into the glass bottom half of the door, causing it to spider. Broccoli said the suspect continuously yelled profanities at the officers as they led him to the cruiser and continuously cocked his leg, as if he was going to kick the officers, and called them “gunslinging whorebags” on the way to the station. He was reportedly so resistant and combative they put him in the cell with the handcuffs off and then had to use a Taser to subdue him when the pepper spray had no effect.

Once he was calmed, Broccoli said police let the man decontaminate himself and offered him a phone call, but he told officers he didn’t know any numbers off the top of his head. Broccoli said the man punched an officer in the stomach when they asked him to remove his watch and said, “You think you’re tough enough to take my watch, go ahead,” and continued to resist, even after his pants fell down and the watch band broke and he attempted to kick an officer several times before he was back in his cell.

Marc A. Gregoire, 41, of 75 Putnam Ave., Apt. 19 in Johnston, was charged with domestic strangulation, domestic assault, domestic disorderly, vandalism, simple assault and disorderly conduct. He was held at the ACI until he made bail on July 29.

WARRANTS

Patrolman Matthew Winsor reports he went with Smithfield detectives to 20 Vacca St. around 11 a.m. on July 24 in an attempt to locate Joseph Reynolds, 27, a suspect with two active warrants for breaking and entering in Smithfield. He said they spoke with two men at the address and they said they hadn’t seen Reynolds in two years, but refused to let police in to search the apartment. Winsor said a check run on one of the men turned up an outstanding warrant from Superior Court for felony violation of a suspended sentence stemming from a domestic assault charge. Jeffrey I. Sanchez, 24, of 20 Vacca St. was arrested and later transported to Superior Court.

MISSING MONEY

Patrolman James Provuncher reports he was dispatched to Thornton Street around 5:10 p.m. on July 22 to take a report of a larceny.

A woman there told police a friend of hers had been at her house throughout the day, and she noticed that her wallet that had been in her living room was missing. She said she asked her friend about it, and the friend denied any knowledge of the wallet.

Shortly before calling police, the woman said she found the wallet on a shelf in the bathroom with no money in it. She said there had been one $100 bill and one $20 in the wallet. The woman said she confronted her friend again and the friend walked out of the house, and the woman followed her until police arrived near the intersection of Plainfield Street and Morgan Avenue.

The woman told police she would not press charges if her friend told her where the money was. Provuncher said the woman continued to deny she took the money but eventually did admit taking it. She told police she threw the money in a shed in the backyard when she realized she was being followed. He said he learned that the name and date of birth she gave him for identification was false, but she did allow another officer to look through her backpack. It contained a Rhode Island ID for Kristen L. Pascua, 27, of 127 Broadway in Pawtucket, who had a history of larceny, forgery and possession of stolen goods convictions. She also had two outstanding warrants from superior and district courts for failure to appear for a restitution review and a payment review for a suspended license, respectively.

She was charged with obstructing an officer and then held for arraignment on the warrants.

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