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01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Victim in fatal Westerly crash identified
WESTERLY — The police yesterday identified the man killed Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle crash as Broc W. Brown, 23, of Bradford Road, Westerly.
The police said Brown was thrown from his motorcycle as he rode along Post Road near Westerly Middle School.
The crash was reported shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday, and rescue workers found Brown lying in the road. He was pronounced dead at Westerly Hospital.
Police Chief Edward A. Mello said the department’s accident reconstruction team is s expected to issue a report within about two weeks.
— With reports from the Associated Press
6 robbed young drug seller, police say
Three men and three youths were arrested Friday after a weeklong investigation by the Westerly police, who said the six arranged to buy marijuana from a 16-year-old boy but instead robbed him at knifepoint, taking the marijuana and $100 in cash.
The 16-year-old was treated at Westerly Hospital for cuts to the neck and hand. He was not charged, Police Chief Edward A. Mello said, because the marijuana was not recovered.
The incident occurred Nov. 15 in the Beach Street area, the police said.
Charged with armed robbery, conspiracy and assault with intent to commit a felony were Westerly residents Jamie J. Castagnaro, 20, James S. Lucy, 18, and Robert K. Austin, 18. They had to appear Friday in District Court, Wakefield.
The three youths, all 16, were held at the Rhode Island Training School before being brought to Family Court.
The police listed the charges against two of the juveniles as first-degree robbery, felony assault, assault with intent to commit a felony and conspiracy. The third was charged with all but the felony assault count.
— Donita Naylor
Car hits Warwick house, driver charged
WARWICK — A Pawtucket woman drove her Ford SUV into a house at 170 Pilgrim Parkway early Saturday morning. No one was hurt, the police said.
Craig Arruda said he was awakened by a loud crash and then saw the vehicle resting against his house. The police charged Maura McKenna, 32, of 50 East St., with refusing to submit to an alcohol breath test.
— Paul Davis
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