EDITOR'S NOTE: The following police log information has been taken from public record police incident reports provided by the Johnston Police Department.
FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE
Around 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, Johnston Police Officer Cody Weaver was patrolling his beat, when he noticed two men sitting at the entrance of the Sky View Inn, 2880 Hartford Ave.
Weaver recognized the men from a previous call, and had knowledge of one of them having two arrest warrants issued out of Delaware, according to the police incident report.
Weaver detained the pair of men, and asked for identification.
One of the two men was identified as Mark Worley, of 28 Boxwood Ave., Wilmington, Delaware.
Weaver wrote in his arrest report that he confirmed Worley had two active arrest warrants; one, a Superior Court bench warrant issued out of Wilmington for a Violation of Probation, and the second, a warrant out of the New Castle County Police Department for Second Degree Assault resulting in Physical Injury to a Person Over 62 years old.
Communications personnel confirmed both warrants, Weaver wrote in the report.
The first warrant was extraditable, however the second was not, according to the report.
Worley was handcuffed, secured in the back of a cruiser, and transported back to Johnston Police Headquarters for processing.
At headquarters, Worley was processed, afforded the use of a telephone and placed in a cell.
“Mr. Worley is being charged by this department as a Fugitive from Justice,” Weaver wrote in the report. “The New Castle County Police Department was contacted and advised that Mr. Worley would be extradited to Delaware.”
SHOPLIFTING
Around 4 p.m. on July 31, Johnston Police responded to The Home Depot, 100 Stone Hill Drive, to investigate a report of shoplifting that had just occurred.
While en route to the call, dispatched notified Johnston Police Officer Kevin W. Lyons that the suspect vehicle was a Blue Honda Accord.
Another officer reported that he had observed a similar vehicle exiting Stone Hill Drive and traveling north on Atwood Avenue, according to the police incident report.
Johnston Police Sgt. Joseph M. Scichilone Jr. was nearby in his cruiser at the intersection of Hartford Avenue at Atwood Avenue. After the call came over the radio, he drove toward The Home Depot, spotting the Blue Honda traveling east on Stone Hill Drive.
Scichilone turned his cruiser around and pulled the vehicle over.
The vehicle was detained and the occupants identified as Abimelec Rivera, of 411 Crossroads Drive, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Mayda Diaz Lanzo, of 159 Bridgham St., Apt. A22, Providence, according to the police report.
Scichilone saw two large air conditioner boxes in the car, and Rivera allegedly spontaneously uttered, “We were returning the air conditioners.”
Police then went to The Home Depot, where they met with a loss prevention manager, who told them a man and a woman had walked into the air conditioning section of the store, located on the south side of the building, according to the report.
The man allegedly took two Ashrae portable style air conditioner units valued at $898 and put them on a flat push cart, while the woman was standing nearby, according to the police report.
Loss prevention told police that Rivera walked past all points of purchase, walking out the middle entrance of the building, without paying for the air conditioners while Diaz Lanzo followed behind him, Lyons wrote in the report.
Police viewed video surveillance and said they were able to positively identify the couple they had detained as the pair who shoplifted the air-conditioning units, according to the police report.
The loss prevention manager also identified the same two individuals for allegedly committing a similar theft on July 27, according to the police report. Those two units were valued at $379 and $329.
Loss prevention also told police the same two people allegedly pulled off the same theft the next day, July 28, making off with two air conditioners valued at $758, according to the police report.
The loss prevention manager told police that during both incidents, the man walked out with the merchandise and the woman followed as the “lookout,” according to the police incident report.
Lyons viewed the surveillance footage and determined the individuals captured on video were the same as the two detained on July 31.
Representatives of The Home Depot told police they wanted to pursue criminal charges for all three incidents, and they asked police to trespass both individuals from the store.
Rivera and Diaz Lanzo were both advised of the trespass order.
The air conditioners police allegedly found in their car were photographed still in the car and returned to The Home Depot.
The pair were handcuffed and placed under arrest for shoplifting.
Upon searching Rivera, Johnston Police Officer Nicholas A. Manocchio said he “located a knife with a blade length of over three inches in his right pocket,” according to the police report.
Rivera and Diaz Lanzo were transported to Johnston Police Department Headquarters, processed and held pending arraignment.
The pair was charged with counts of Shoplifting and Conspiracy, both misdemeanors, for each of the three incidents, according to the police report.
“Rivera was determined to be a bail violator and was remanded to the ACI,” Johnston Police Detective Michael G. Edwards wrote in an incident report.
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