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.”
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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.
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