SOUTH KINGSTOWN

Intruder prompts lockdown at high school

Officials at South Kingstown High School ordered a brief lockdown shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday after it was determined that a suspicious individual had entered the school.

Principal Robert McCarthy said that once the administration was informed that there was an intruder who was “acting strangely,” the school went into lockdown mode with students and teachers remaining behind locked doors in their classrooms while a crisis response team responded.

McCarthy said students and teachers were advised they could return to their normal schedules once it was determined that the individual was no longer on school grounds. The lockdown lasted about seven minutes.

Security cameras showed that the intruder knocked on the door at the Hazard building side entrance and that a student opened the locked door to let him in, McCarthy said.

Pictures of the individual have been forwarded to the Police Department.

Richard C. Dujardin

JOHNSTON

Man arrested after hit-and-run accident

The police arrested a 20-year-old Central Falls man on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident Friday after witnesses reported seeing his car hit a young bicyclist in the area of Burnett Street and Pleasant Avenue.

Andrew J. Mendonca, of 17 Mowry St., Central Falls, was arrested at an apartment on North Williams Street within an hour of the 1:30 p.m. accident after witnesses reported seeing his car parked outside and identified him as the driver. Mendonca said he was unaware of hitting anyone.

The bicyclist, Stephen M. Clark, 11, of 28 North Williams St., was treated at Hasbro Children’s Hospital for bruises to his right knee.

Richard C. Dujardin