Crime & Safety

Woman Arrested For Spitting On Parked Price Rite Patron

The following arrest information was supplied by the Woonsocket Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

 

Being within spitting distance of someone who's got a restraining order against you is probably too close, as Chamika Chandler, 26, discovered Monday.

responded to Price Rite on Diamond Hill Road Monday at about 3:50 p.m. for a report of a woman spitting on another woman. When they arrived they heard from Becky Brien, 40, who said she had been sitting in the passenger front seat of her parked car at Price Rite, speaking on her cell phone, when a she felt someone spit on her. 

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Brien said she got out of her car and saw Chandler, whom she has a restraining order against, standing there. Police also spoke to a carriage collector for Price Rite who witnessed Chandler spit on Brien.

Brien said Chandler left in a blue Saab with RI plates before police arrived, but police stopped her car and arrested her at 4:23 p.m. Chandler was charged with simple assault.

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