Rhode Island crime news: June 2022 – The Boston Globe

Roberto Cruz Rivera, 30, entered a no contest plea to first-degree theft, discharge of a firearm throughout a theft, assault with a harmful weapon on a police officer, discharge of a firearm whereas committing an assault on a police officer, and carrying a pistol and not using a license.

Superior Court docket Justice Robert D. Krause sentenced him to 53 years, with 23 years to serve on the Grownup Correctional Establishments.

“This case demonstrates the large hazard that large-capacity magazines, that remarkably stay lawful in Rhode Island, and unlawful firearms pose to members of the general public and regulation enforcement alike,” Lawyer Normal Peter F. Neronha mentioned. “This defendant not solely brandished a ghost gun throughout this theft, but in addition discharged it, together with at a pursuing police officer. The lengthy sentence imposed by the courtroom right here ought to ship a powerful message that gun violence perpetrated in opposition to police and members of the general public will deliver essentially the most critical penalties.”

On Oct. 29, 2020, Rivera robbed a 7-Eleven comfort retailer in Windfall and shot at an officer throughout a automotive chase that adopted, prosecutors mentioned.

In the course of the theft, a Windfall police officer pulled into the shop parking zone and heard gunshots. Rivera pointed his handgun at him as he ran throughout the road in direction of a automotive pushed by a co-defendant, Jeffrey McKay.

Police chased the care down Chad Brown Avenue, Admiral Avenue, Charles Avenue, and Mineral Spring Avenue earlier than the automotive crashed right into a median on a Route 146 on-ramp. Rivera fled from the crash on foot, however police caught him in a close-by wooded space, prosecutors mentioned. Officers recovered a Polymer80 9 mm semi-automatic ghost gun with a 27-round large-capacity journal.

— By Edward Fitzpatrick

Could 25, 2022

2 despatched to jail for roles in drug trafficking scheme

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two Rhode Island males have been despatched to jail for his or her roles in a drug trafficking scheme that shipped or tried to ship an estimated 50 kilograms (110 kilos) of cocaine to the state by way of the postal service, federal prosecutors mentioned.

George Mojica, 42, and Angel Delgado, 25, each of Central Falls, have been sentenced Monday to seven years and 5 years in jail respectively, in accordance with an announcement from the U.S. lawyer’s workplace.

The defendants retrieved packages that had been delivered to houses across the state, every containing a kilogram (2.2 kilos) or extra of cocaine, authorities mentioned. The recipient names on the packages weren’t related to the supply addresses, they mentioned.

Primarily based on the variety of intercepted packages containing cocaine, their weight, and proof of cocaine recognized by drug-sniffing canines on discarded packaging supplies, the group is believed to have shipped or tried to ship greater than 50 kilograms of cocaine to Rhode Island between January 2018 and December 2019.

Mojica pled responsible in December. Delgado pleaded responsible in January.

Could 16, 2022

Windfall Police condemns racist mass capturing in Buffalo, vows to ‘stand robust’ with Black neighborhood

PROVIDENCE — Public Security Commissioner Steven M. Paré and Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements Jr. condemned the racist mass capturing on Could 14 in Buffalo, N.Y. and pledged to make sure the security of the Black neighborhood in Windfall.

The assault by an 18-year-old white man that killed 10 and wounded three at a busy grocery retailer was an act of terrorism in opposition to the African-American neighborhood, Paré and Clements mentioned on Monday.

“We denounce and condemn this racist conduct that resulted within the demise of 10 ten people who have been senselessly attacked in broad daylight. The topic accountable for this heinous act introduced worry upon the Buffalo neighborhood and likewise to the hearts and minds of each particular person all through this nation,” they mentioned in an announcement.

“The Windfall Division of Public Security stands robust alongside our African American neighborhood in Windfall and throughout this nation and are outraged by the violence that continues to happen all through the US of America,” they mentioned. “The Windfall Public Security workforce will proceed to make the most of each useful resource doable to make sure the security of our neighborhood. We should decimate racism and hatred by figuring out people who violently assault and kill individuals due to their race, ethnicity, tradition, sexual orientation, gender id or non secular beliefs. We specific our deepest condolences and prayers to all these concerned and can work collectively as a neighborhood to decrease the hate and racism all through our state and nation.”

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