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Thank you so much for posting.
Yeah, we’re going a little crazy over here. I swear it broke my heart when the fellow came aroung the corner with my stupid buckets, and then said that there were only a “few old cats” in the house. I mean, obviously I don’t know what happened, but yikes. It just seemed like the police just maybe dropped the ball on this? I’ve been having terrible dreams about her feeling panicked and trying to ‘hide’ or ‘get rid of’ the cats… (or even other ‘evidence’ of stolen stuff…)
Thanks again for letting me know that this isn’t just some ridiculous nightmare that we’re having alone- Did you get stuff back too? I swear, I can hardly look at my stupid buckets. I don’t even really want them anymore.
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Two weeks ago when the police were in the house, they spotted 20-30 cats. She was given at least 3 days notice that the police would be in with a warrent this week and, what do you know, there were only 3 cats in the house when the police arrived. She must have shipped em out to a temporary spot. She claims she has 9 cats and has the vet bills to prove they are hers. The cops say their hands are tied.
I spoke with Dave Holden in the legal department at the RI SPCA today. His office will only get involved if there is abuse involved. He did give me some other ideas… let me sniff them out and I’ll get back to you. You guys must be freaking out. Regarding the “field” the cop was talking about… Nicole in the white cape said she has seen MC go out into the woods on Cherry directly across the street from her and let the cats run around. I am always looking out there from my back yard and back windows and I have never seen her. I’ll get back to you with more.
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This is so unreal. I heard that the police were there and my DH went this am to see if our cat Junior was there. The police showed him a photo of what they (at that time) said was the only orange cat there, and it was not Junior.
When I got home this afternoon, there were still police there, so I went over with Junior’s photo and a photo of the stupid bucket. The officer? Detective? I spoke with said “there were only a few cats in there, and they’re older.” He did say that the cats had been well cared for. I asked if there were more cats at the house in Matunuck, and he said they were checking on that. He also said something about how she might have let the cats out into a field (? I am thinking maybe he meant Brown’s farm?) so to keep a look out.
He then looked at the bucket and said “I think I’ve seen this, wait here.” I said “There should be a big round one too.” He went around the side of the house and came back with my buckets. He put them on the ground and another guy took a photo of them. They then put them in my car for me. Now the buckets are back home, but not my beautiful boy Junior.
I don’t know if anyone is reading this, I don’t know if it’s ok to say this, but the garage door was open and it was packed full of stuff. I’ve never seen anything like it. There was a beautiful wooden birdhouse with a shingled roof on a 4×4 stand that was leaning against a tree outside the house, so if you lost a beautiful wooden birdhouse with a shingled roof on a 4×4 stand, I’d call the SK police if I were you.
I don’t know.
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A call to Detective Wheatley this morning gained no new information about when the cats would be removed from the property. This is getting ridiculous.
Woman charged in sorority food theft
Lindsay Lorenz
03/25/08 – Police arrested a South Kingstown woman accused of taking food from a University of Rhode Island sorority house after responding to reports of a suspicious person.
Two Sigma Delta Tau sisters found Margo Caddick, 54, of 70 Cherry Road, Kingston, peering into the house refrigerator around 5 a.m. on March 12.
The housemother, a South Kingstown police officer, followed Caddick to her car and began to question her, during which the officer noticed gloves, burglary tools and a mask in the woman’s car.
Caddick told police she had entered the house through an open door, and was using the bathroom.
However, when police searched her backpack, they found food that was missing from SDT’s fridge.
Police obtained warrants and searched her Cherry Road residence, as well as another residence on Peninsula Road in Matunuck, where they recovered items believed to have been stolen.
“We found items in her vehicle that would lead us to believe she was stealing from other fraternities and sororities,” Maj. Stephen Baker of the University Police said, citing an X-Box that was recovered.
URI police are taking into account other recent larcenies that might be related to Caddick’s. However, police never considered Caddick a likely suspect.
“She was completely off the radar screen as far as we were concerned,” Baker said of the middle-aged white woman.
He said Caddick has no previous criminal record. “We’ve checked with other departments and no one’s had contact with her,” he said, adding that she grew up around the South Kingstown area.
“She didn’t work here herself, but it does appear she was very familiar with the campus,” he added.
Baker said South Kingstown Police are working on the investigation and URI police are assisting when possible.
“We’re still investigating,” Baker said. “This investigation is going to take some time.”
Caddick is scheduled to appear in District Court in Wakefield on April 2.
Police are urging students to report stolen items, especially those with serial numbers, as police are able to track them through databases.”
LINK to Good Five Cent Cigar
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Police widen break-in probe
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — An off-duty police officer working a second job as a housemother at Sigma Delta Tau sorority may have cracked a major burglary case.
On March 12 at 5 a.m., University of Rhode Island sorority sisters told their housemother, Officer Bethany Barrington of the South Kingstown Police Department, that a stranger was raiding their refrigerator. Barrington followed the woman out of the sorority and to her car. The woman told Barrington she had come into the sorority to use the bathroom.
While the two women were talking, Barrington saw burglary tools, gloves and a mask, along with other goods – including the food – in the woman’s car. She called campus police officers, who charged Margo A. Caddick, 54, of 70 Cherry Road, Kingston, with burglary, possession of burglary tools and receiving stolen goods worth less than $500 (the food).
Later, the two departments served search warrants on the Cherry Road address and at 108 Peninsula Road, Matunuck. Both houses are owned by trusts held by Caddick’s parents, according to town tax records.
In the two houses, police found a variety of electronics, video game consoles, backpacks, keys and mail addressed to other people.
“She appeared to have hoarded things,” said South Kingstown Police Capt. Jeffrey Allen. “The houses were both in poor condition.”
Allen said the two departments are working to match theft reports to items found in the two houses and further charges are possible. Police also are asking residents of Kingston and URI to report any recent thefts.
Since learning of Caddick’s arrest, her neighbor, Scott B. Newcombe of 52 Cherry Road, told police a number of items were taken from his home over the past 10 months, including heirloom jewelry and tools. He also said the postal service and other delivery services had confirmed several pieces of mail and packages had been delivered but they had never arrived. Another neighbor, Norma H. O’Brien of 1637 South Road, reported that a concrete birdbath was stolen from her yard three years ago.
Police have not said if those items were recovered in the warrant seizure.
“She was completely off the radar screen,” Major Stephen Baker of URI Police said of the suspect. “We had no prior dealings with her, nor had other local departments.”
Since the charges are felonies, Caddick did not enter a plea when she appeared in Fourth Division District Court in Wakefield on Thursday. She was released on surety bail until April 2.
LINK to South County Independent
Liz Boardman can be reached at boardman@scindependent.com.
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Woman accused of stealing food from sorority
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, March 15, 2008
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — A 54-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday after two residents at the University of Rhode Island’s Sigma Delta Tau Sorority found her inside the sorority house, looking into their refrigerator, the police said.
Margo A. Caddick, of 70 Cherry Rd., South Kingstown, is charged with burglary, possession of burglary tools and receiving stolen goods worth less than $500, according to District Court records.
South Kingstown police Capt. Jeffrey Allen said sorority members discovered the woman at about 5 a.m. and told the house mother, who happens to be a South Kingstown police officer. The officer confronted Caddick as she walked to her car. URI police officers then arrived and arrested Caddick after finding she was in possession of stolen food, Allen said.
South Kingstown and URI police later served two search warrants, one at Caddick’s address and another on Peninsula Road and seized other items believed to have been stolen, Allen said. The investigation is continuing, he said.
Caddick is free on bail and is scheduled to be back in District Court, Wakefield, on April 2.
LINK to ProJo article
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Well, it’s sad to have such a rotten reason to start this, but I think this could be good! The initial impetus behind making this blog is to try to keep track of what is going on with the investigation into a rash of theft and catnapping (!) that has gone on for years in the South Road/Cherry Road area. I hope this site at least helps people find some information about what is going on, and maybe it could even help turn neighbors into friends.
If you find that you are missing items or see (or remember) any suspicious behavior, please contact Detective Jason Wheatley at the SK Police Department at 783-3321.
The photo above is of Junior, who should be at home with his people.
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This is one of the things that ‘went missing’ from my house. It doesn’t look like much, and is, in fact, an old washtub, but it was my old washtub that I found at a yard sale and liked very much. It was great for chrysanthemums. There was a large round one too that also ‘dissapeared’.
