Coventry Man Gets Life for Child Molestation
By: Rob Borkowski on November 24, 2025 in Coventry, RI news, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
PROVIDENCE, RI – A Coventry man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve life in prison at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) for multiple counts of child […]
Copley Arraigned July 25 On Threatening Public Official Charge
By: Rob Borkowski on July 26, 2025 in News to You, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WARWICK, RI — Scott Copley, fmr. Coventry Councilman, was arraigned Friday for threatening a public official & subpoenaed a Cumberland Farms video of himself.
RIAG Charges Warwick RIDOT Backhoe Thief
By: Rob Borkowski on June 1, 2023 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Island’s Attorney General has charged a Warwick man as the RIDOT backhoe thief in a January 2023 report. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced the charge, […]
Warwick Man Sentenced for Child Molestation
By: Rob Borkowski on February 20, 2023 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WARWICK, RI — A Warwick man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to 15 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to child molestation, sexually assaulting […]
RIAG Seeks Consumer Complaints for Contractor
By: Rob Borkowski on July 27, 2022 in Business, News to You
PROVIDENCE, RI – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has filed a consumer protection complaint against RI Contractor Michael Bresette and his companies, BTTR LLC, HAM Inc., and asks people harmed by […]
Grand Jury Indicts Warwick Man For Sexual Assault
By: Rob Borkowski on June 18, 2021 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
PROVIDENCE, RI — On May 26, the Statewide Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Michael Elgar of Warwick with four counts of first-degree sexual assault. According to RI Attorney General […]
Two Sentenced For Roles in 2016 Stabbing, Murder of Michael Rogers
By: Rob Borkowski on May 14, 2019 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Two men who pled no contest to participating in the fatal March 26, 2016 stabbing of Michael Rogers, 19, of 149 Haswill St. were sentenced in Superior Court […]
Disbarred Warwick Lawyer Sentenced to Eight Years on Embezzlement Charge
By: Rob Borkowski on May 3, 2019 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
Disbarred Warwick lawyer Vincent Mitchell, 58, of Coventry, pleaded no contest in Superior Court Thursday to one count of embezzlement over $100 – a considerable sum over, at $1.3 million from 11 clients, for which he’ll serve eight years in prison.
LaPlante Sentenced to Five Years Probation for Wrongful Conversion of School Funds
By: Rob Borkowski on April 6, 2017 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WARWICK, RI — David LaPlante, former Director of Warwick Schools Buildings and Grounds, was sentenced in Kent County Superior Court Tuesday to five years suspended and five years probation, and ordered to […]
Gunderway Pleads Guilty to Murdering ‘Captain Fredy’ Fernando Silva
By: Rob Borkowski on March 22, 2017 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
PROVIDENCE, RI — Troy Gunderway, 46, of Warwick, pleaded guilty today to the Aug. 1, 2015 murder of “Captain Fredy,” Fernando Silva, 70, and also pleaded guilty to one count of […]
Special Education Advocate Sues Warwick School Committee, Claims Open Meeting Violation
By: Rob Borkowski on February 2, 2017 in Schools
WARWICK, RI — Anthony Sinapi, lawyer and advocate for parents contesting Warwick Public Schools’ special education plans for their children, has filed an Open Meeting Act lawsuit in Superior Court against the Warwick School Committee contesting the body has skirted the law by holding the Elementary Consolidation Committee (ECC) in closed session, and by failing to post agendas for or keep minutes of those meetings.
Superior Court Jury Finds Warwick Man Guilty of Sexual Assault of 15-Year-Old Boy
By: Rob Borkowski on October 21, 2016 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
A Kent County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found a Warwick man guilty of second degree sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in the city in 2015.
Policeman Pleads Guilty to Stealing from Providence Police Property Room
By: Rob Borkowski on July 20, 2016 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
Suspended Providence Policeman Michael McCarthy, 61, of 5 Sweet Fern Road Warwick pleaded guilty to embezzling from the Providence Police Department Tuesday in Superior Court, and will serve one year of a seven year sentence in home confinement, with the balance suspended.
Central Falls Man to Serve 35 Years for 2001 Child Molestation in Warwick
By: Rob Borkowski on February 13, 2016 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
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.
Target Shoplifter, Wanted for Domestic Strangulation, Arrested Jan. 21
By: Rob Borkowski on February 8, 2016 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
Warwick Police arrested a Providence man Jan. 21 at 2:30 p.m. at a bus stop at Rhode Island Mall after he fled the Bald Hill Road Target carrying $1,856.87 in stolen electronics, learning he was wanted for skipping court on a domestic strangulation charge.
Ragosta Report Redactions, Release, In Progress
By: Rob Borkowski on November 20, 2015 in News to You, Schools
The Ragosata Report, which a Superior Court order instructs the School Committee to turn over to the City Council, is expected to be delivered this week, with only minor redactions.
Central Falls Man Convicted of 2001 Child Molestation in Warwick
By: Rob Borkowski on November 16, 2015 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
On Friday a Kent County Superior Court Jury convicted a Central Falls man of first degree child molestation of a six-year-old at the man’s Warwick apartment in 2001.
Judge: School Committee Must Give City Council the Ragosta Report
By: Rob Borkowski on November 12, 2015 in News to You, Schools
Judge Bennett R. Gallo ruled today that the School Committee must honor the City Council’s subpoena of the “Ragosta Report,” and a redacted version of the document is expected within a week.
Florida Man Sentenced to Life for 1990s Child Molestation, Sexual Assault in Warwick
By: Rob Borkowski on April 20, 2015 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
A Florida man convicted in November with child molestation and sexual assault in Warwick in the 1990s was sentenced to life in prison Friday in Superior Court.