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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Police Log: Man Arrested After Woman Catches Him Stealing From Father's Car

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

  Todd Joseph Green, 41, added bad timing to bad judgement when he went through Craig Benoit's car Nov. 26 at about 10:28 p.m. As luck would have it, Benoit's daughter, Jessica, was just arriving at the 211 Linden St. address when she noticed a tall, skinny man wearning black pants and a hooded sweatshirt with a white shirt underneath leaving her driveway, entering a cut-through to Diamond Hill Road. She walked up the driveway and found her father's 1991 Firebird with both its doors open. Jessica ran into the house, told her father about the theft and followed the man through the cut-through, finding him pacing on St. Leon Ave. near Diamond Hill Road, and called police. Three Woonsocket Police officers responded to the address, and one of …

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