JOHNSTON — Three men were arrested yesterday and charged with breaking into an elderly woman’s house on Spring Street.

The three suspects, Jason Izzo, 19, of North Providence; Jermaine Heath, 32, of Providence; and Julio Rodas, 23, of North Providence, were seen walking through the Lyman Avenue neighborhood yesterday, ringing doorbells and looking into windows. The police also got a call that the men had broken into a house at 32 Spring St. and fled on foot on Greenville Avenue.

The victim, Dorothy Gonnoud, 86, told the police that she heard her doorbell ring and, as she walked to the door, she saw a man later identified as Heath standing inside the foyer. When she asked what he was doing, he mumbled something and fled on foot.

A witness later identified the suspects as the three people he had seen standing outside Gonnoud’s house. The men were arrested for breaking and entering into a dwelling of a person over 60 and conspiracy to commit breaking and entering. Heath is a registered sex offender with the Providence police.

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