City man accused of break-in, theft
WOONSOCKET – A city man and a woman from North Smithfield were both ordered held without bail Wednesday after police stopped them coming out of a suspected drug house on North Main Street, according to police reports.
Thomas P. Green, 41, of 592 South Main St., allegedly tossed a packet of heroin to the ground as he exited the residence about 10:30 p.m. Although he was charged with possession of a controlled substance, he was ordered held at the Adult Correctional Institutions as a probation violator stemming from a 2009 conviction for robbery.
At the time of his arrest, police said Green was also the target of three warrants, including one stemming from the theft of a pair of stereo speakers from a neighbor’s apartment three days earlier.
The victim told police he saw Green putting the speakers into a pickup truck and driving off shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 8. A locked compartment in the basement where the speakers had been stored had been forced open. Police obtained a warrant seeking Green on a charge of breaking and entering with felonious intent.
Green has a lengthy criminal record, with 29 committals to the ACI since 2007 on charges ranging from possession of a
controlled substance and larceny from the person to shoplifting and assault with a dangerous weapon.
As Green exited the North Main Street residence on Wednesday, police said he was accompanied by Monica Marie Hoefer of 800 Iron Mine Hill Road, North Smithfield. She was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in Sixth District Court to answer a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
She, too, was ordered held without bail at the ACI pending further court action.
Detectives Michael Flood and Gabriel Koneczny were on routine patrol when they happened upon Green and Hoefer walking from the second floor of a residence they said was occupied by a suspected drug dealer.
Green was walking behind Hoefer as the officers confronted the two of them in a parking lot behind the residence. Koneczny thought he saw Green toss something to the ground in an alley beside the house as he began walking away from the officers.
The officer went into the alley with his flashlight and found a piece of folded, clean white paper in a pile of “dirty, brown, wet trash” that was on the ground. He opened it up and saw a brownish powder that later tested positive for heroin.
Police said they also found three hypodermic syringes in Green’s pockets.
In addition to the new drug charge, police booked Green for obstructing because he allegedly gave the detectives a series of false names before he truthfully identified himself.