If you’re keeping a list of ill-advised activities, urinating in public next to the most notorious motel in the city while there’s an active warrant for your arrest deserves a spot on it.
Officer Jacob Elderkin found a West Warwick man with an outstanding warrant and a gram of heroin during a patrol around the Motel 6 building on Jefferson Boulevard Oct. 31, and arrested him.
The owner of the Warwick Motel 6 building is selling the 20 Jefferson Blvd. property, asking $4 million for the spot that earned local notoriety for regular reports of criminal activity.
Mayor Scott Avedisian, the Board of Public Safety and executive leadership of Motel 6 from Carrollton, TX met this morning, agreeing on a plan to curb criminal activity at the motel’s Jefferson Boulevard location.
Motel 6 executives will attend the April 14 Board of Public Safety meeting to discuss concerns stemming from numerous police calls to the hotel off Jefferson Boulevard.
It’s been an ignominious year for Motel 6, but Warwick officials aim to reform business practices at the local branch of the national hospitality chain.
The Motel 6 on Jefferson Boulevard was evacuated Sunday night after Warwick Police raided a meth dealing operation there on a tip, discovering a meth lab in one of the rooms in the process.
Warwick, RI – Warwick Police responded to Motel 6 at 20 Jefferson Blvd. at 2 p.m. Monday where a man had retreated with a revolver after chasing a woman into the parking lot firing several shots, resolving the situation peacefully thanks to the efforts of a SWAT negotiator.