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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.

PILING UP CHARGES

A Cranston man saw his day go from bad to worse on Sept. 21 after witnesses told police he was the man behind the wheel of a car that hit a building at 1263 Hartford Ave.

According to a report filed by Patrolman Andrew Broccoli, it all started around 7:30 a.m., when he got a report of a car slamming into the building at that address. He said the person who called the accident in told dispatch a white male wearing a navy blue hoodie was driving the car, and that he ran east on Hartford Avenue. Broccoli said the car suffered heavy front-end damage, but the building appeared to have only cosmetic and not structural damage.

Dispatch traced the car’s plate to a Johnston woman. Broccoli and Patrolman Adam Parkinson went to her apartment, where the woman who owned the car and a 29-year-old man police say was nervous and sweating answered the door. The man reportedly denied driving a car that morning or even leaving the apartment. At that point, the woman is said to have told police that was not true, and that he was not home at all that morning. Broccoli said he escorted the man to his room to get his identification and saw a navy blue hoodie on the table. He said the sweatshirt was turned inside out, and the man reportedly denied he had worn the hoodie that day.

In the meantime, Parkinson was interviewing the woman, who he said told him the man came to her apartment shortly before police arrived. She reportedly told the officer that the man was nervous and sweaty, and told her that he believed someone stole her car as he was wiping sweat from his head with the navy blue sweatshirt and mumbling about not having a license when police arrived.

Broccoli said he also spoke with the registered owner of the car, who told police the woman they were talking to in the apartment was the only person at the location who had permission to use the car. Both women said the suspect was not given permission to use the car and they wanted to file a criminal complaint.

Anthony Vittorioso, 29, of 206 Lawnacre Drive in Cranston, was arrested and charged with driving a vehicle without the owner’s permission, leaving the scene of an accident, driving without insurance and leaving his lane of travel.

Around 10:30 a.m., Patrolman Parkinson reports he met with the woman from the apartment who said she was there to filed a larceny complaint against Vittorioso. He said she told him she cashed a check the day before for exactly $990 and had that amount in her purse when she counted it around 11:30 p.m. the night before. She said she left the purse beside her car keys on the counter-top in her apartment and noticed that two $100 bills were missing when she counted it that morning. Parkinson said she believed that Vittorioso took the money because she suggested that Vittorioso take a cab back to Cranston the night before but he complained he didn’t have the money to do so.

Parkinson recalled that Vittorioso had two $100 bills on him when he was processed earlier. Parkinson said police confiscated the money, photographed it and confined it in the evidence drop box pending Vittorioso’s arraignment on the additional charge of misdemeanor larceny. Vittorioso was later released on $10,000 personal recognizance.

RENT WITH INTENT

Patrolman John DeAngelis reports going to the Hertz agency on Putnam Avenue on Sept. 16. The clerk told DeAngelis Hertz rented a 2013 Ford Escape to a Johnston woman on June 28. He said it was to be returned on Aug. 6, but it was not, and they had been attempting to contact the woman with no success, including on Aug. 21, when they sent her a certified letter that went unanswered.

DeAngelis said he took the letter and other documents as evidence and filed a stolen vehicle report. DeAngelis said he tried to contact the woman as well and called her cell phone number. He said a man answered and told him he had the wrong number. He also asked Pawtucket Police to check the address she had given them, and they informed him that the car was not there. The case was forwarded to detectives.

Detective David Slinko said he located information that the woman had been arrested in East Providence on Aug. 19 and learned that she had given her mother’s house in Johnston as an address. Slinko said he went to that address and saw the missing car in front of the house. A woman who answered the door identified herself as Ashley Yvonne Ortiz, and she was arrested and charged with obtaining a vehicle with intent to defraud.

Slinko reports that she told him she was attempting to save money to return it that day by 4 p.m. and pay for it the next day. He said she was held as a violator out on bail for a drug charge in East Providence.

OUTSTANDING

Patrolman Matthew Leveillee said he checked out a man who was soliciting people outside their homes on Plainfield Street around noon on Sept. 20. The man told Leveillee he was asking residents if he could do some yard or lawn work, but the officer reports he did not have any lawn or yard care tools.

Leveillee said he ran a check on the man and learned there was a warrant out for him for failure to appear concerning a possession of stolen goods charge in District Court. Jonathan Thomas Patterson, 24, with no address given on the police report, was remanded to the ACI when he couldn’t make bail.

UNLICENSED

Sgt. Troy Maddocks reports stopping a car with an expired registration sticker on Route 295 South around 9:15 a.m. on Sept. 18. He said the driver had an expired license, and the DMV reported the VIN had no active registration and the plates on the pickup truck had already been reissued to someone else. Pasquale F. Marino, 39, of 2 Eastgate Drive in Coventry, was issued a ticket for driving without a license and driving and unregistered vehicle. The pickup was towed.

WARRANTED

Patrolman Derek Parascandolo reports stopping a silver Jeep on Hartford Avenue around 7:11 p.m. on Sept. 17 because the driver was not wearing a seat belt. He said he ran a check on the driver and learned he had a suspended license and a District Court warrant for failure to appear for a driving on a suspended license charge. Isaiah Guilmain, 33, of 174 South Main St. in Woonsocket, was arrested and charged with driving on a suspended license and released after he was arraigned and paid a surety warrant for a $1,000 personal recognizance.

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