AG: Grandparent Scammer Gets 30 Months In Prison
PROVIDENCE, RI – A New York City man, a so-called grandparent scammer who posed as victims’ grandchildren in duress to ask for money, has been sentenced to 30 months in […]
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Man Found Guilty For 2020 Coventry Party Sexual Assault
PROVIDENCE, RI — A Coventry man was found guilty in Kent County Superior Court Wednesday for a Coventry party sexual assault of a woman in 2020, Attorney General Peter F. […]
AG, DOH Redoing 52 Cocaine Tests
PROVIDENCE, RI — The Attorney General’s office has asked for 52 cocaine tests by the Rhode Island Department of Health lab to be retested following a report of a Forensic […]
City Doesn’t Have to Produce WFD Sick Time File, Says AG
WARWICK, RI — Warwick officials don’t have to produce the original digital records detailing WFD sick time taken by firefighters between 2013 and 2018 that cost the city up to […]
RI Attorney General Names Weizenbaum Civil Division Chief
PROVIDENCE, RI— Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is appointing Miriam Weizenbaum of Providence the next Chief of the Civil Division, succeeding Rebecca Partington, on her retirement in February. Partington will […]
Audette Gets Life Sentence for 2013 Woonsocket Murder
PROVIDENCE — Brian Audette, 49, of Warwick, was sentenced Tuesday to a life sentence after pleading no contest to second-degree murder in the 2013 Woonsocket murder of Donna Pike, 57, […]
Kilmartin Joins Suit Blocking Immigration-Inspired Trump Fund Cuts
PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, part of a coalition of seven Attorneys General, filed suit against the Trump administration to block its efforts to punish jurisdictions that did […]
RIAG: Volkswagen Agrees to Buy Back Emission Fraud Cars, Billions in Restitution
If you’re driving one of the 3,292 Volkswagen vehicles equipped with illegal and undisclosed emission masking software in Rhode Island, Attorney General Peter Kilmartin has good news for you: the company will […]
Two Men Plead No Contest to Unemployment Fraud
A Warwick and a Johnston man pleaded no contest to unemployment insurance fraud Tuesday, the former who worked at Millwork One, Inc., in Cranston and the latter who worked at Roof Doctor, Inc. in Warwick, each while collecting state benefits.
Four Indicted in March 26 Murder of Michael Rogers
Two Warwick men are among four indicted June 15 by the Statewide Grand Jury on murder, assault and conspiracy charges in the murder of Michael Rogers March 26.
Central Falls Man to Serve 35 Years for 2001 Child Molestation in Warwick
On Friday, Jose Colon, 42, formerly of Central Falls, was sentenced to serve 35 years in prison for the first degree child molestation of a six-year-old at the man’s Warwick apartment in 2001.
Warwick Man Arraigned on Sexual, Domestic Assault Charges
The Providence County Grand Jury has reported an indictment charging Karl Almgren, 31, of 25 Custer St., Warwick, with three counts of first degree sexual assault, one count of simple domestic assault, one count of domestic disorderly conduct, and one count of domestic refusal to relinquish a telephone.
Florida Man Convicted of Child Molestation, Sexual Assault in 1990s in Warwick
Warwick, RI – The Attorney General’s office reports a Florida man charged with child molestation and sexual assault in Warwick in the 1990s was found guilty Wednesday after a three-day trial before Superior Court Justice Brian P. Stern, the second trial of the case.
