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Woonsocket Arrest

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Blackstone Man Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft Scam With Woonsocket Man

John Tropea, 59, of Blackstone joined Keith Huguenin, 33, of Woonsocket in admitting to fraud.

  A Blackstone man has joined his accomplice, Keith Huguenin, 33, of Woonsocket, in pleading guilty to stealing dozens of identities, which were used to pass forged doctors’ prescriptions at pharmacies and receive prescription drugs. John Tropea, 59, of Blackstone, has been sentenced in connection with the identity thefts, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. Tropea pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of Identity Fraud (76 counts), Obtaining Drugs by Fraud (76 counts), False Health Care Claims (40 counts), and Conspiracy. After the plea was entered Judge Thomas A. Connors sentenced Tropea to two-and-a-half years in the House of Correction with five years probation after his incarceration. Tropea was previously …

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Woonsocket Woman Charged With Failing To Report Friend's Death

Driver reported earlier death of Johnston man after crashing his car into a guardrail.

RI State Police have charged a Woonsocket woman with failing to report a man's death for several hours, taking his car and crashing it into a guardrail in Smithfield before telling police he was dead. State Police Captain Michael J. Winquist said that at 11:45 a.m. yesterday, a trooper responded to a car crash on Rte. 44 west in Smithfield involving a car that had struck a guardrail. The officer arrested driver Dawn Utting, age 45, of 75 Union St., apt. 1R, Woonsocket, for reckless driving and operating with a suspended license, but there was more to her story. "When the trooper was speaking to her, she referred to a male friend" whose car she was driving, and whom she said had died at his Johnston apartment at about 4 am that morning, …

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