The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Cranston Police.

NO TOOLS

Officer Sean Parker reported a call to a house on Harmon Avenue on Feb. 15 for a complaint about tools locked up in a house there. The owner of the tools told Parker he had been doing work at that address and left about $10,000 worth of tools inside the house but there was currently a dispute between himslef and the owner of the house about the work and he would not let him into the building to retrieve his tools. He said he could not complete any of the work he was doing for other parties as long as his tools were locked in the house. He wanted help getting into the house to get his tools. Parker said he knocked on the door and got no response. He said he also noticed that there appeared that no one had been staying at the address for some time and there was a pile of unanswered mail built up in front of the door. He said he could see through the window that the man’s tools and equipment were locked inside the house but he informed the man no one was home and the dispute was a civil matter between the landlord and himself.

DOG STORY

Officer Jonathan Nelson reported a dog left tied to a sign on Fairway Drive on Feb. 15. He said he spoke with several neighbors who claimed they never saw the dog before. He said a man then approached him and said that he was the person who called in about the dog. He said he was out with his own dog earlier and the gray pit bull attached to the sign had been following him and his own dog on the bike path earlier. He said the dog was friendly enough and was not aggressive with him or his dog. He said he was afraid the dog was lost and he tied the dog to the sign while he went home to call police to report the dog. Nelson said he took the dog to the shelter and set it up in a cage with food and water. He said the dog was nervous and cold because of the extreme weather but was friendly. He said the dog had no tags on it to indicate who the owner might be.

HOT ABOUT CLOTHES

Officer Julie Furgasso said she and two other officers went to the Laundromat at 1116 Cranston St. on Feb. 19 for a report of a disturbance. A woman there said she had her clothes in a dryer there and when she came back she saw the clothes had been removed from the dryer and she said the woman next to her had removed them. The woman next to her told Furgasso that she did not take the clothes out. She said the owner of the Laundromat took the clothes out. She said the owner approached her and told her it was true that he had taken the clothes out because there is a two-hour limit on the dryers. He said the woman who complained took her clothes and left after she told Furgasso the other woman had threatened, “to see her again.” Furgasso said she advised the other woman to avoid contact with the woman who complained about her clothes.

LOCKED OUT

Officer Eugene Russo said he was dispatched to the Midland Medical Center on Oaklawn Avenue for a report of a woman who locked herself out of her car on Feb. 16. He said Cranston Fire and the woman who owned the car met him at the scene. She told Russo she called CFD because she had locked her 7-month-old baby in the back seat. Firefighters got into her car by using a coat hanger to trip the latch and she retrieved her keys.

FORGOT

Officer Michael Caramante reported arresting a shoplifter at the Marshall’s department store on Oaklawn Avenue on Feb. 16. Security at the store told him they saw the suspect enter the store carrying a TJ Maxx bag with some items in it. They said she went to the service desk to return some kitchen knives that she got a store credit for. They said she then proceeded to the sunglasses where she took two pairs and put one of them into the TJ Maxx bag and then went to the toddlers’ section and selected two sets of clothes and put them in her bag. They said she then went to the kitchen area and put two knives and a large frying pan in the bag before she went to the register and used the store credit to pay for the toddler outfits but did not pay for the sunglasses, the knives and the frying pan and left the store. Caramante said the woman protested that she just “forgot the items were in her bag” and said she often put items in a shopping bag instead of using a carriage but could not explain why she shopped that way and the bag had items in it that she was going to return to other stores but offered no explanation for why she did not have receipts for the items she intended to return. He said he also asked her how she could “forget” the frying pan in her bag, because it was so big and heavy, and again, she did not explain how she could have forgotten the pan was in the bag. Simone P. Ventura, 29, of 39 Derbyshire Dr. in Cranston was charged with shoplifting.