Police: Man molested child at Portsmouth polo match
PORTSMOUTH — A 52-year-old Saunderstown man was arrested Monday after an investigation revealed he had inappropriately touched two 10-year-old children at a polo match at Glen Farm in July, police...
View ArticleMan arrested after soliciting for money in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log from over the past week. Tuesday, Sept. 9 Jenna G. Vargas, 22, 9 Harbor Village Drive, Middletown, was charged with driving while...
View ArticlePortsmouth man indicted on child molestation charge
PORTSMOUTH — A local man has been indicted n charges that he molested a child 14 years of age or younger earlier this year. The Newport County Grand Jury reported out an indictment Sept. 12 charging...
View ArticleBody of woman recovered off Prudence Island
PORTSMOUTH — The body of a 73-year-old Tiverton woman was recovered off the east side of Prudence Island Sunday morning after she had been reported missing from a boat moored at Potter’s Cove. The...
View ArticlePortsmouth police: Man pulled girlfriend out of car
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log from over the past week. Tuesday, Sept. 16 Vanessa D. Fonseca, 27, of 7 Pascale Drive, Lincoln, was arrested just before midnight...
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Portsmouth avoided major disaster 25 years ago
PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth was on edge the day of Sept. 25, 1989, after a truck carrying 2,400 gallons of propane gas wedged itself under the railroad overpass off Anthony Road. Firefighters blew over...
View ArticleMan arrested in Portsmouth after spitting at driver
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log from over the past week. Wednesday, Sept. 24 Emily M. Billett, 22, of 322 Riverside St., was arrested at 1:50 a.m. on a bench...
View ArticlePortsmouth CVS camera caught alleged thief with credit card
Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log from over the past week. Wednesday, Oct. 1 A Sigourney Road man told police his Zenbook Ultrabook computer had been stolen, possibly from his...
View ArticleMan sentenced in Portsmouth abduction case
PORTSMOUTH — Daniel Berger, 28, of Haskell, N.J., was sentenced Thursday to 87 months in federal prison for traveling interstate for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a 13-year-old...
View ArticleWarren man charged with stealing from relative’s bank account
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log from over the past week. Monday, Oct. 20 A Bay View Avenue man told police that someone broke into his garage two days earlier and...
View ArticlePortsmouth PD: Man failed to register as sex offender
Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log over the past week. Monday, Oct. 27 Three election campaign signs and a Cub Scout sign were removed from town property at the transfer station on...
View ArticlePortsmouth’s Lepes Road to get speed limit signs
PORTSMOUTH — As a result of feedback from residents who attended a traffic safety meeting Nov. 6, the Department of Public Works will be installing 15 mph speed limit signs on Lepes Road and new stop...
View ArticleDrivers had to be separated after Portsmouth accident
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police log over the past week Nov. 8 Vehicles driven by Michael Richard of Middletown and Joyce Lincourt Sullivan of Portsmouth collided on...
View ArticlePolice: Portsmouth girl caught on tape throwing egg
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police report from over the past week. Thursday, Nov. 13 Peter M. McAuliffe, 58, of 23 Chapel St., Apt. A, Newport, was charged with driving...
View ArticlePortsmouth police wins ruling on records complaint
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Police Department did not violate the state’s public records law when it denied an apartment complex’s request for reports and dispatch log entries regarding a prospective...
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A police call, then a connection in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — It all began with a misunderstanding. Officer Jeff Cornelisse, in his seventh year on the Portsmouth police force, was called to a Bramans Lane home. A bus driver had reported seeing an...
View ArticleDrivers injured after collision at Portsmouth transfer station
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police report from over the past week. Monday, Nov. 17 Nicole L. Woll, 34, of 9 Clement St., Tiverton, was charged with driving after her...
View ArticleIn Portsmouth: Drag racing, heroin and ‘freaky’ dolls
PORTSMOUTH — Here are some highlights from the Portsmouth police report from over the past week. Tuesday, Nov. 25 Karen A. Arnold, 53, of 23 Greenfield Ave., Portsmouth, was charged with domestic...
View ArticleAG: Portsmouth violated public records law
PORTSMOUTH — The town violated the state public records act when it failed to provide the local police union with documents relating to attorney fees and other expenses incurred due to an arbitration...
View ArticlePortsmouth police: Woman stripped, vomited in cell
PORTSMOUTH — A 24-year-old Cranston woman caused some mayhem in a police jail cell following her arrest on a drunk-driving charge Friday night. Around 11 p.m., police were dispatched to a vehicle...
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