[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The WPD has ID'd the drivers in Monday's Airport Road Motorcycle crash, and disclosed more details of the investigation.

[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Police Department. Officers charged an Uber Eats grocery driver with felony assault Dec. 16 for cutting a customer with a box knife.

WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police charged an Uber Eats driver with felony assault Dec. 16 after an East Avenue couple she delivered groceries to reported she waved a box cutter at them and cut the fiancee’s finger during a struggle.

Officer Nicholas A Manocchio was called to the address that Tuesday at 6:10 p.m. for a reported assault in progress, according to the officer’s report.

At the home, Manocchio spoke with a man who said an altercation began with their delivery driver as the woman, identified as Melissa Hunt, 46, of 400 Narragansett Parkway, Apt. #EC3, Warwick, delivered their Stop & Shop groceries outside in the wrong spot. When he notified Hunt, she replied that she, “Did not give a f**k,” the man said, according to the report. The man went inside and notified his fiancee who also spoke with the woman about her delivering the groceries in the wrong spot.

Grocery Grapple, Felony Assault

The man said he stepped out again to find his fiancee and Hunt arguing, and walked back down the driveway to get in between them, according to the report. As he reached his fiancee and held her back from the argument, Hunt approached from around her 2012 Chevy Equinox with a yellow box cutter, shouting that she would cut/stab them.

The man grabbed Hunt by the arm and took her to the ground, and his fiancee wrestled the box cutter out of her hand, getting cut on a finger of her left hand in the process. Once Hunt was disarmed, he let her up. Hunt jumped up, got back into her Equinox and backed up, nearly striking his fiancee, then sped away.

Manocchio spoke with the fiancee, who said that when she confronted Hunt about the groceries being left in front of the wrong apartment, she said to her, “I don’t give a f**k, you can’t walk? It’s right there,”

Hunt then started throwing groceries on the driveway, the woman said. Hunt then shoved a twelve pack of soda into her, and she pushed the delivery driver away from her. At this point, her fiance arrived and attempted to hold her back while Hunt threw cans of soda on the ground. The woman grabbed one of the soda cans and threw it back at Hunt, but didn’t hit her. At that point, hunt ran to the driver’s side door of her Equinox and returned with the box cutter, yelling, “I’ll f**king stab you b**h,” and swung the box cutter at her, she said, according to the report.

When the woman wrestled the box cutter from her, Hunt got up and told her, “keep it,” before getting into the SUV and driving away, she said, according to the report.

Manocchio reported seeing the groceries on the driveway and a yellow box cutter at the bottom of the stairs leading to the couple’s apartment.

WPD Lt. Carreiro stopped the gold colored Equinox near 2400 Post Road, and Officer Gian Micheletti met him at the stop.

Micheletti spoke with Hunt, who said that she had threatened the couple with the box cutter, but had never exposed the blade.

Hunt told the officers that when she arrived with the delivery order, she was unable to figure out where exactly the groceries were going because the house is a duplex. She began to deliver them to the right side of the house, because that’s where she thought they were supposed to go. She said that the person she was delivering for came outside from the other side of the house and began to scream and yell because she was delivering in the wrong place, she said, according to the report.

Hunt told the officers she then responded back to her car to get more groceries and stated she just left them on the grass because she did not know where they were supposed to go. Hunt stated when she went back to the car to get the last group of paper bags, the man’s fiancee came up from behind her, body checked her and began to yell. Hunt said she fell down and felt threatened. She then grabbed a utility knife from her vehicle. Hunt stated she never had the blade exposed, however did have the knife in her hand, according to the report.

Hunt said that the couple pushed her to the ground and took the knife away from her. Hunt showed injuries to her knees which appeared to be red and cut up, according to Micheletti ‘s report. Hunt said that after she got up, she got into her SUV to get away from the people attacking her.

Mannocchio reported that the box cutter he collected at the scene did not have a mechanism to lower the blade. “I observed the blade to be stuck in the extended position,” the officer wrote in his report.

Arrest, Assault Disorderly Conduct Charges

Mannocchio arrested Hunt, charging her with:

1. Felony Assault And/Or Battery [RIGL: 11-5-2(a)]

2. Simple Assault And/Or Battery [RIGL: 11-5-3(a)]

3. Disorderly Conduct [RIGL: 11-45-1(a)]

Hunt was arraigned on the charges on Dec. 16 in Third Division District Court, then released on $5,000 personal recognizance, with Non-Domestic No Contact Order. She is scheduled for a March 16 court screening on the charges.

Author: Rob Borkowski

Rob has worked as reporter and editor for several publications, including The Kent County Daily Times and Coventry Courier, before working for Gatehouse in MA then moving home with Patch Media. Now he's publisher and editor of WarwickPost.com. Contact him at editor@warwickpost.com with tips, press releases, advertising inquiries, and concerns.

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