Man To Be Arraigned on New Year’s Eve DUI Charge Feb. 1

WARWICK, RI —  A Cranston man charged with DUI Dec. 31 at 6:30 p.m. on Brentwood Avenue is due for arraignment on the charge in Third District Feb. 1.

Ronald Gincastro, 52, of 765 Park Ave., Basement Apt. 1, Cranston, RI, is charged with DUI, .15 or greater.

On New Year’s eve, Officer Keara Enos and other officers were dispatched to the area of Jefferson Blvd. for a report of a gray Volvo swerving in and out of lanes. Enos located the car as it traveled north on Brentwood Avenue near Adrian Street, according to the officer’s report, and pulled the car over, identifying the driver asa Gincastro.

As she spoke with Gincastro, she reported his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, his speech was slurred, with elongated vowels that made it difficult to understand him, and he smelled of alcohol, according to the officer’s report.

Enos asked him if he had been drinking that night, to which Gincastro replied, “I had a drink orhhaauh,” the final word unintelligible, according to the report.

Officer Sara Goes arrived to assist, and Enos asked Gincastro to step out of his car to take sobriety tests. As he did so, Gincastro stumbled back against his car and appeared unsteady. During the tests, Gincastro did not cooperate with a test of his vision, which Enos ended without results, and was unable to complete a walk and turn test with heel-to-toe steps as directed, asking the officer, “What’s your name? I like you,” before Enos also ended that test.

Enos arrested Gincastro on suspicion of DUI, and called City Towing to remove the Volvo from the road. At Warwick Police Headquarters, 99 Veterans Memorial Drive, he registered a .245 and .232 on successive blood tests of his blood alcohol content.  He was unable to arrange for a sober adult to take custody, and was transferred to Kent County Hospital for detox treatment.