Newport Daily News
NEWPORT The Newport Police Department reports they’re “beginning to have issues” with ATVs, albeit nothing “major” and mostly in parks and parking lots.
“We currently have not had street issues,” Newport Police Lt. April Amaral said in an email. “We thankfully do not have the big issue as Providence and Cranston, and I’ll assume Newport’s streets are a bit more difficult to navigate, especially during the summer.”
The Providence Journal reported in March that Providence public safety officials announced a multifaceted approach to stopping illegal all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, and dirt bikes on city streets, which included police continuing to enforce the law and destroy the machines when possible, as well as a hotline for residents to report illegal riding.
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Swansea man charged in fatal Newport crash
NEWPORT Police on Monday identified the 19-year-old woman killed early Saturday morning when the vehicle she was in crashed in the area of Brenton and Wickham roads.
Katelin Pimental of Middletown was one of five people in the vehicle and the only reported fatality. The vehicle she was in struck a “stationary object,” according to a press release sent out by Police Lt. April Amaral on Saturday.
Dekiah Laitola, 21, of Swansea, Massachusetts, has been charged with driving to endanger, death resulting, according to a press release from Newport police on Monday.
“[The] other occupants in the vehicle sustained minor injuries. The investigation is ongoing,” Amaral wrote in the press release Monday.