FAST AND LOOSE

Officer Lee Sohn reports he was on a DUI detail on July 6 when he clocked a car doing about 55 mph on Dyer Avenue around 1 a.m. Sohn said he was concerned about people getting out of a nearby club and crossing the street at that hour and believed the speeding car put those people in danger. He said they began to pursue the car down several streets and onto Central Avenue where it reached speeds in excess of 70 mph. He said the car hit a curb and the front tire fell off, but it did not yield and pull over. He said it stopped briefly and police got out to approach it, but it sped off again, almost hitting another officer. He said another officer radioed that he and a Johnston cruiser were following the car, and it finally stopped on Pocasset Avenue in Providence. All three occupants were arrested. He said all the other departments deferred to Cranston on the charges. The driver was identified as Michael J. Barney, 19, of 750 Quaker Lane in East Greenwich. Sohn said they found a bottle of vodka and a Mason jar containing marijuana in the car, along with a digital scale and sandwich bags used for packaging marijuana and $4,250 in cash. Barney was charged with having an open container of vodka in a car, possession of marijuana and reckless driving and eluding police. He was held without bail at the ACI for violating a previous probation and suspended sentence.

ASSAULT

A Fairbanks Street woman called police to complain that her boyfriend’s sister assaulted her on July 15 and then fled the scene. The woman said that she had an argument with her live-in boyfriend and had been trying to call him all day. She said her boyfriend’s sister finally answered his phone and they argued. When the sister and brother arrived at her house, the allegedly sister got out and beat her up until her mother came home and the sister fled. Officer Joshua Mason reports he went to the home of the suspect and arrested her without incident. Ashley M. Botelho, 18, of 186 Orchard St. in Cranston, was later released on $2,000 personal recognizance and told to stay away from the victim.

EVERY RIGHT

Officer Andrew Korkuc reports going to the Heritage Liquor store on Reservoir Avenue around 4:30 p.m. on July 14. The manager of the store told police he was having trouble with an intoxicated customer who would not take no for an answer. Korkuc reported that he was familiar with the customer, having seen him roaming around the area intoxicated in the past. He said he saw them at that time and asked him what happened in the store. He said the man told him he was refused service at the store and told to leave, and denied having caused any issues in the store. Korkuc said he told the man to avoid the store for the rest of the evening and the man agreed.

Korkuc said he then went to the manager of the store, who told him there was a problem with the customer and that he wanted him trespassed from the store. He said the man was refused service and then refused to leave the store. He said the manager signed the statement formally banning the customer from the store and, just as he was leaving, the customer showed up again. Korkuc said he asked him why he was there, and the man insisted, “he had every right to make a purchase at the store.” Korkuc informed him that he didn’t and that he would be arrested if he went into the store. The man left the store.

Korkuc said he was about to leave when he saw the same man heading back toward the store. Korkuc said he yelled at the man that he was violating the trespass order but he continued to insist he “had every right to be at the store,” and Kurkuc arrested him after some resistance. Gerald K. Adams, 55, of 5021 Reservoir Ave. in Cranston, was charged with willful trespass and resisting arrest.

MORNING BUZZ

Officer Mardochee Bellevue reports going to Soprano Circle around 10:25 a.m. on July 14 for a disturbance. A man was reportedly banging on someone’s door, threatening to kill the man inside. The man inside told the officer the man making the noise was the friend of the man’s estranged wife, who has a no contact order against her estranged husband. Bellevue said he located the man behind the house and arrested him without incident. He said the man kept yelling over his shoulder that he was going to kill him and called him disparaging names. Bellevue said the suspect said he “had a few to drink” when he took him into custody and had a bottle of vodka in his back pocket. Steven Nicholas Devonis, 56, of 130 Oaklawn Ave., was charged with disorderly conduct.

ATTENTION, PLEASE

Officer Matthew Schaffran reports a call about a naked man screaming and running around Pendleton Street around 7:40 p.m. on July 12. He said he and two other officers responded and found a man wearing nothing but a T-shirt. He said the man refused to explain why he was running around naked or identify himself. He said they spoke with neighbors, who were having a children’s party at the time, and they told him they thought he belonged to a couple on the second floor of 50 Pendleton St.

Schaffran said they went upstairs at 50 Pendleton and yelled as they approached the open door. They said a woman’s voice came from inside who told them she couldn’t move and they went inside to check on her. He said she was sitting in a wheelchair and was under the influence of alcohol. She told police her boyfriend was in the other room but Schaffran saw a picture on the refrigerator and asked if that was her boyfriend. She said it was and they told her they had him downstairs wearing nothing but a T-shirt and had been running around the neighborhood naked.

She told them that her boyfriend had been drinking, too. Schaffran said they eventually pieced together that he had gone outside to get something and locked himself out. They further learned that he attempted to have the woman downstairs let him in, he got frustrated and angry and took off his pants and started yelling loudly, which caught the attention of the children and adults throwing the party. James Nelson, 23, of 50 Pendleton St., was charged with disorderly conduct.

WHAT GOES

AROUND…

Officer John Mastrati reports he was on patrol on Garfield Avenue around 12:25 a.m. on July 12 with his windows closed when he heard music coming from a red Honda around 200 feet away on Cranston Street. He said the driver saw him sitting at the intersection and turned the music down. He said the man yelled something as he passed and held his closed right hand up, with the middle finger extended. Mastrati said he activated his lights and pulled the car over at Cranston and Huntington avenues. He said he gave the driver, Stephen Edmonds, 21, of 4 Cathedral Dr. in Attleboro, a ticket for excessively loud music. Mastrati also reported that he had an encounter with the driver earlier. At that time, he was given a ticket for a laned roadway violation, not using a turn signal and running a stop sign. He said he returned to his cruiser after that and watched as Edmonds turned his car around and drove past Mastrati with his closed left hand up, with the middle finger extended, and yelled, “[Expletive] [expletive] cop,” as he passed. Mastrati said he ignored that and went back on patrol, where he again saw Edmonds, this time with his windows down, playing loud music…

DUI AND REFUSAL

Officer Dyanna Detroia reports she was on Route 10 south around 7:50 p.m. on July 11 when she saw a car swerving in and out of lanes before she pulled it over after the Reservoir Avenue exit near Beckwith Avenue. She said she asked the driver if she had been drinking and she replied that she only had two drinks. But Detroia said she smelled strongly of alcohol and appeared to be drunk. She said she eventually stumbled out of the car for a field sobriety test, which she could not complete. She was arrested and taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. Mary A. Ruggiero, 47, of 125 Julia St. in Cranston, was charged with DUI and refusal and later released on $1,000 personal recognizance.

Officer Luis Melendez reports being dispatched to the intersection of Warwick and Bartlett avenues around 10 p.m. on June 28 for a suspected drunk driver who spoke only Spanish. Melendez said he administered a field sobriety test to the driver and he failed it. He said the driver was taken to headquarters where he blew a .179, but Melendez said it was obvious he was trying to beat the machine by blowing incorrectly.

Eventually, he blew a .197 and a .198 blood alcohol content and was charged with DUI. Jose Marte Guzman, 47, of 358 Willard Ave. in Providence, was held for arraignment.

Officer Bretton Robbins reported he administered a field sobriety test on a woman at Park Avenue and Mill Street around 12 a.m. on July 5.

He said Nancy White, 50, of 42 Colonial Rd. in Webster, Mass., was charged with reckless driving, refusal and DUI, second offense, and held for arraignment.