Woonsocket police seek suspect in break-ins

WOONSOCKET — The police are asking for help to locate Shayne Eugene McClair in connection with several commercial break-ins in Woonsocket and Bellingham, Mass.

McClair, 18, is about 6 feet 2 inches, of slim buildand weighs about 165 pounds, the police said. His last known address is 100 Asylum St., Woonsocket.

The police said McClair broke into Tesoro’s Market, 1047 Social St., on April 24, stealing an undisclosed amount of money. Though he had fled the scene, officers found evidence on the scene linking McClair to the break-in, the police said. They obtained an arrest warrant with that information.

McClair is also wanted in a similar break at AJ’s Mini Mart in Bellingham, Mass.

Last year, the Woonsocket police charged McClair with two counts of breaking and entering with a resident present, five counts of breaking and entering at night with intent to commit a felony, and conspiracy to commit a felony. That case is pending in Providence County Superior Court.

The police ask anyone with information on McClair’s whereabouts to call the Woonsocket police at (401) 766-1212 or the department’s anonymous tip line at (401) 769-4444, or the Bellingham police (508) 966-1212.

— Maria Armental

Providence’s club Ultra fined $500

PROVIDENCE — Having admitted that it had been selling whole bottles of hard liquor, the downtown dance club Ultra has been fined $500 by the city Board of Licenses.

In order to discourage overindulgence, state law requires that a bar employee sell and serve one drink at a time from a bottle of distilled spirits.

With the support of the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation, the police have been cracking down on the so-called bottle service for the past year. The practice of selling whole bottles of distilled spirits or wine, especially to occupants of VIP tables or booths, had become widespread at certain nightclubs.

Steven Wright, lawyer for Ultra, said the club had changed its Web site to discontinue advertising the sale of whole bottles of distilled spirits.

In addition, at a meeting this week, the license board gave Ultra a formal warning for violating a regulation of the DBR that requires that wine or champagne must be dispensed by a server and not poured by the patron. When detectives visited Dec. 7, they discovered that Ultra had allowed patrons to serve themselves from a $105 bottle of Moet champagne.

State law says that wine may be delivered by the bottle or carafe only when sold with a meal, or to more than one person, or for free wine tastings. And only a bartender or server may fill the glasses.

— Gregory Smith

Pawtucket man charged with enticing girls

PAWTUCKET — A local man accused of showing cell-phone pictures of his genitalia to two minor girls was released on bail following a District Court appearance Friday, court officials said.

Joe Campana, 31, was ordered to have no contact with minors.

Pawtucket police Detective Donti Rosciti said the girls — who are sisters, ages 12 and 13 — had gone to visit a friend on Knowles Street on May 18. Campana, their friend’s stepfather, was sitting in his car in the driveway, Rosciti said. He called the sisters over, first one then the other, and showed them the pictures and telling them in Spanish that he would masturbate and say their name as he did so, Rosciti said.

The girls ran home and told their mother, who reported it to the police, Rosciti said.

Campana was charged with two felony counts of enticement of children and two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct.

Rosciti said that Campana had deleted the photographs from his cell phone but that the police were able to retrieve them.

— Maria Armental