Rhode Island Police

The Rhode Island State Police have created a new hotline for people to report allegations of clergy sexual abuse. The State Police announced the new telephone line within the Major Crimes Unit.

A Rhode Island police officer charged in connection with a road rage incident last month has pleaded not guilty. Warwick Officer David Boardman pleaded not guilty Monday to vandalism and disorderly conduct and was released on $2,000 bond, according to the Providence Journal.

A veteran Rhode Island police officer has been charged with forging the town treasurer’s signature about 30 times so he could withdraw about $50,000 from his deferred compensation plan. Tiverton Sgt. William Munroe was released on $10,000 bond Wednesday on 30 counts of forgery. It’s not clear if he has an attorney.

Rhode Island police have made an arrest in the 1988 killing of a 10-year-old girl. Pawtucket police on Thursday said they have charged 59-year-old Joao Monteiro with murder in the death of Christine Cole. Cole was last seen alive on Jan. 6, 1988, after leaving a Pawtucket market where she had been sent by her mother to buy milk.

Rhode Island police have arrested a Massachusetts woman who they say drove her vehicle into a reservoir with her three young children inside.

Rhode Island police have arrested a Massachusetts woman who they say drove her vehicle into a reservoir with her three young children inside.

Rhode Island police have arrested a man they say stabbed a panhandler to death on a Providence street. Maj. David Lapatin tells The Providence Journal a man in his 50s was panhandling at an intersection at about 8 p.m. Monday when two other men approached and an argument ensued.

Two Rhode Island police officers are being praised for their quick actions that saved the life of a choking baby.

Further sexual assault charges have been filed against a former assistant Catholic chaplain who worked at a boy scout summer camp.

A Providence, Rhode Island police officer was reportedly hospitalized Friday following an early morning crash involving an alleged DUI driver. The officer was in a police cruiser when the crash happened at about 2 a.m. near the intersection of Amherst and Julian streets, WJAR reports. Authorities reportedly said the alleged DUI driver ran a stop sign and crashed into the...

Rhode Island police say a man stole a forklift and drove it around a park, at times trying to ram police cruisers, before he got stuck and had to be forcibly removed. Newport police say 27-year-old Ross Ahlborg, of Narragansett, took the forklift without permission at about 10 p.m. Wednesday and was driving around Fort Adams State Park.

Prosecutors say the trainer facing charges in the death of a dog that belonged to former New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo had an elaborate plan to deceive authorities.

Rhode Island police are looking for a man they say played a role in the death of his mother’s 60-year-old boyfriend.

Two police officers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were reportedly injured when a Cranston, Rhode Island police sergeant’s gun accidentally misfired following the funeral for slain Weymouth Sgt. Michael Chesna. WJAR reports the officer was changing out of his uniform on a parked bus in a staging area for police in Braintree following Chesna’s funeral.

Neither officer was seriously hurt and both refused treatment

A suspect charged with shooting a Rhode Island police officer during an early morning foot chase is heading to court.

Rhode Island police say a man called 911 from the back of a cruiser to complain about an officer who volunteered to give him a ride.

Rhode Island police are looking for a man they say stole a vehicle with two young children inside it.

Newly released court records indicate that a Rhode Island police lieutenant is under investigation for allegedly lying to help his girlfriend get public housing when she wasn’t eligible, and for allegedly altering or deleting police records.

Rhode Island police have made an arrest in connection with a cat that was found outside with its fur frozen to the inside of a cardboard box.