LOCKDOWN

Warwick Police told Warwick Avenue citizens and businesses to lock their doors and stay inside for about 30 minutes around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

City police presence was heavy in the vicinity of the Beacon Communications newsroom at 1944 Warwick Ave.

On Wednesday, Warwick Police Chief Col. Bradford Connor had little information to offer on the incident.

“Nothing to report,” Connor said via email. “Ended up with no crime involved and one subject being sent for a mental health evaluation.”

DUI

Around 6:40 p.m., Sept. 8, Warwick Police Officer Anthony J. D’Abrosca was traveling north on Quaker Lane near Cowesett Road when he observed a vehicle stopped in the left lane of the roadway, with the driver’s side door open.

Several people were gathered around the vehicle speaking to the driver.

“I spoke with some of the subjects on scene, who advised that the operator of the Chevrolet was asleep behind the wheel,” D’Abrosca wrote in the arrest report. “I observed the operator to then slam the door shut, telling everyone to ‘go away.’”

D’Abrosca approached the driver’s side door and identified the driver as John R. Dignan, 725 Center of New England Boulevard, West Greenwich, via his Nevada driver’s license.

“I opened the driver’s side door and observed the vehicle to be in reverse,” D’Abrosca wrote. “I advised Dignan to put his vehicle into park and turn the vehicle off.”

D’Abrosca allegedly detected the “strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from Dignan’s breath.” He was confused and “did not seem to be aware of what was going on,” according to the arrest report.

D’Abrosca asked him to put the vehicle in park, but he allegedly just stared at the officer.

“I reached into the vehicle, put it into park, and turned the vehicle off,” D’Abrosca wrote. “I advised Dignan to exit the vehicle several times before he actually did so.”

D’Abrosca said he found “an open bottle of Tito’s vodka on the passenger’s seat.”

Dignan consented to a series of standardized field sobriety tests. Following “his extremely poor performance on the” tests, he was arrested and charged DUI-Liquor (0.15 or greater; first offense). He was transported back to the Warwick Police Headquarters, where he consented to a chemical test. Police said he blew two samples, and one registered 0.154 BAC and the other, 0.141 BAC. Dignan was also cited for a traffic offense, Places Where Parking/Stopping Prohibited.

CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS

Multiple catalytic converter thefts were reported to Warwick Police between Sept. 13-15.

Around 11:27 a.m., Sept. 13, Warwick Police responded to the AOT Global Chauffeured Services garage at 64 Gilbane St., where a representative told police that he drove a 2012 Ford E350 into the garage for inspection, and noticed it was loud.

The man checked underneath and realized the catalytic converter was cut off. He checked the other vehicles, and found two more catalytic converters had been removed. The estimated damage total, according to police, was $5,000. The owner told police he would like to press charges.

At 7:13 a.m., Sept. 14, Warwick Police responded to the Hampton Inn, 2100 Post Road, for another larceny complaint.

A mechanic and employee at Sunbelt Rentals told police that the catalytic converter had been taken from a commercial 2015 Ford F-250 truck.

“I looked underneath the vehicle and observed two clean cuts to the area where the catalytic converter normally sits,” Warwick Police Officer Zachary J. Black wrote in the incident report. “It is an OEM catalytic converter, valued at approximately $4,000.”

The business told police they would like to press charges if a suspect is found.

Around 10 p.m. on Sept. 15, Warwick Police responded to Briarwood Meadows at 940 Quaker Lane to investigate another larceny report.

A resident told police that his work vehicle, a Ford F350 was parked in the lot overnight, but when he started it in the morning, it was “extremely loud.”

The man told police he would like to press charges if a suspect is found.

The incidents were forwarded to Warwick Police Detectives.