Holyoke city councilor held without bail in Rhode Island

WARWICK, R.I. (WWLP) — Holyoke Metropolis Councilor Wilmer Puello-Mota went earlier than a Rhode Island Superior Court docket decide on Thursday.

Based on the Rhode Island Legal professional Normal’s workplace, Puello-Mota was extradited from Massachusetts for a number of fees out of Rhode Island and appeared on the Kent County Superior Court docket in Warwick for bail violation.

He’s presently being held with out bail and has a pretrial convention listening to on Could 24 earlier than the identical courtroom.

Puello-Mota, Holyoke’s Ward 2 councilor and a member of the Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guard, was wished on an arrest warrant issued by the Rhode Island Legal professional Normal’s workplace for Forgery and Counterfeiting, and Obstruction of the Judicial System.

Massachusetts State Police arrested him on Could 11, 2022 at Barnes ANG in Westfield.

Based on the Warwick Police Division, Puello-Mota was arrested on Sept. 2, 2020, for possession of kid pornography.

The 17-year-old sufferer informed police Puello-Mota allegedly despatched her cash for sexually express photographs when he knew she was underage.