Four arrested in Johnston house break-ins
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By Maria Armental and Kate Bramson JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Four Providence men have been arrested on charges they broke into several houses in Johnston, or tried to, the police said. Those arrested are: • Jamie S. Johnson, 19, of 12 Claremont Ave., Apt. 2, who was charged with attempted breaking and entering, a felony. He was released on personal recognizance following a district court arraignment Tuesday; • Jason T. Ovando, 18, of 13 Chaffee St., faces felony charges of breaking and entering, conspiracy to commit a felony, and possessing burglary tools, along with a misdemeanor charge for resisting arrest. He is being held at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston on $20,000 bail with surety; • Richard E. Guzman, 19, of 124 Wayne St., faces felony charges of breaking and entering, burglary, and two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony, and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. He was released on personal recognizance after a District Court arraignment Thursday; and • Jorge Cardenas, 18, of 197 Carpenter St., faces felony charges of burglary, and two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony. He was released on personal recognizance after a District Court arraignment Thursday. The arrests came as the department investigates a spike in house breaks, Deputy Police Chief David M. DeCesare said Thursday, noting more than 20 had been reported in the past two to three months. Almost all of the breaks happened during the day while the homeowners were away, DeCesare said. Around noon on Tuesday, the police said, a Brenda Drive resident reported a suspicious man, wearing black clothing and a black baseball cap, fiddling with the sliding door and back window of a house on David Street, which is visible from the back of the Brenda Drive home, DeCesare said. The woman, whom the police did not identify, told the police the suspect was the same man who previously had rung her doorbell and tried to open her back sliding door, according to a police report. The police say they found Jamie S. Johnson on the rear deck of 6 David Drive. Johnson told the police he was looking for a friend who was staying at a house in the area, the police said. Contacted by the police, the homeowner, Theodoros Fotopoulos, confirmed the exterior storm window had been opened about four inches and was "hanging low." Later that afternoon, according to the police report, an Acre Drive resident reported his neighbor's burglar alarm was going off and told the police a suspicious blue Honda Accord was parked nearby. By the time the police arrived, the car had gone. The police started searching for the car based on the license plate number provided by the neighbor. At 2:24 p.m., an Angela Court resident reported a suspicious car -- the same one that had been seen on Acre Drive -- parked in front of her neighbor's house. The woman, whom the police did not identify, said a man was inside the car and two other men were walking outside the house. Officers Jared DeAngelis, John DeAngelis and Maj. John Angell found Jorge Cardenas in the car, according to the police report. Cardenas told the police his two friends had entered the house at 3 Angela Court, the report stated. The police found Jason Ovando in that house hiding inside a bedroom closet under a pile of clothes, and Richard Guzman lying face down under a bed, the report stated. Ovando had a screwdriver that the police said had been used to pry open a garage window and a door into the house, the report stated. The police are investigating whether Ovando, Guzman, and Cardenas are connected to other unsolved break-ins in Johnston, Providence, and Cranston. 
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Over a hundred people sent in comments about some loser,cheating ex-cop getting arrested when real cops do a great job arresting 4 scum bags that were breaking in people's homes and get no thank you. Well great job Johnston Police some one is grateful.
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maybe these poor city men, so hungry for food and needing rent money, were just visiting a friend?
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If a minority with a black hood and a baseball cap that everyone wears enters a neighborhood with a majority of Caucasian people that only lives there. They're going to think he’s up to something. When really he can just be looking for a friend or an acquaintance that lives around that particular area. He may knocked on the front door but no one answers and if he is not from that area and maybe from a different part of Rhode island (providence) where in his neighborhood there’s not that many door bells but he can knock on the front door, also if the person he is looking for may have said knock on both incase the person is in the back of the house. Like it been said someone seen him touching the window which is above nothing but air because the window is far from the deck and he may just knocked on it since its a plastic window it can easily slide down four inches low. I seen the house and I wouldn’t think that even a burglar would jump off a deck to get into a small window. The kid didn’t even had any tools, the only tools he had was a black hood, a baseball cap and being an Minority (Hispanic).This shows that even if a person that looks for someone around an Caucasian area with the worst corrupted cops in Rhode island (Johnston Police)would get arrested for something they didn’t do. The kid Jamie Johnson is easily misunderstood how can one kid could do a three mans job which you read above the comments and threaten by the cops that he’s going to get charged for 10 Broken Entry’s. The cops didn’t have any evidence but what the people of that area thought they seen come on now an elderly lady of the age between 75-90 cant even see her way out the door of her own home, why would she try to assume something?" All I know these cops got nothing better to do when they can look for rapists or big drug trafficking that goes around them day by day. The poor cops gave up on Jamie and threw him back in the cell because he admit his story to the cops but they didn’t believe him and got Jamie’s other friend in to testified and had the same matching stories. Plus they never read there rights to mister Johnson but forced him to sign the paper that they supposedly did read his rights. Also one of the detectives ask Jamie to write his statement so he guided Jamie what to fill in as name, address, etc but took away the paper with out Jamie writing his statement and threw him back in the cell. I know this because I was there. In today’s society cops are really digging there teeth into bull to have there kids go to college and become successful when they are throwing teens in jail which those kids have a future but because of a misunderstanding there hopes and dreams are ruined.
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