Warwick, RI — Police have identified a man sought in the Sept. 12 theft of electronics from a Walmart store in Warwick as a habitual shoplifter who has several other cases pending against him.
Warwick Police confirmed that the suspect in the local theft has been identified as Justin Westley, 33, of Providence, the Rhode Island Most Wanted website reported.
According to online court records, Westley pleaded no contest on Apr. 11 to a misdemeanor charge of shoplifting brought by Cranston Police. On Oct. 16, following his arrest on a felony shoplifting charge by East Providence Police, Westley was ordered to serve six months at the Adult Correctional Institutions for violating terms of probation set in the Cranston case.
Besides the East Providence case, which also includes a charge of habitual shoplifting, Westley also faces charges brought by three other police departments in three other separate cases.
Westley is due in Third District Court on Nov. 3 for a review hearing on the two felony counts of shoplifting brought by Warwick Police and one count each of felony shoplifting brought by Cranston and Lincoln Police.
Surveillance cameras recorded Westley going into the Walmart on Post Road at about 7 a.m. on Sept. 12 and later leaving the store carrying “numerous computer and electronic goods” without paying for them, according to the RI Most Wanted website.
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