![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Police Cruiser at WPD HQ, 99 Veterans Memorial Drive. A driver arrested for fentanyl possession Jan. 30 will be in court on the charge May 19.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WPD-cruiser-left-336x237-1.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — A West Warwick man arrested for fentanyl possession Jan. 30 after Warwick officers discovered him sleeping in his grey 2003 Nissan Maxima at Marathon Fuel Station, 2400 West Shore Highway, will seem for a Third District courtroom screening Might 19.
Officers Connor Craig and Kyle Fitzsimmons, alerted to the person’s presence by a report of a driver slumped over his wheel on the intersection of Primary Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard, discovered John G. Laprade, 39, of 6 Kent St., West Warwick, in his automotive sleeping on the gasoline station at about 5:19 p.m that day. They knocked, waking him, and requested him to step out.
Laprade consented to a search of his automotive, and Fitzsimmons positioned a small white powdery substance in a cellophane bag within the mans backpack within the passenger aspect of the automobile. The officers arrested him on suspicion of possession of unlawful medicine, and, after sobriety checks didn’t present indicators of impairment, positioned him of their cruiser.
Fitzsimmons transported Laprade to WPD Headquarters, 99 Veterans Memorial Drive, for reserving. Craig transported the bag with the white powdery substance to WPD Headquarters. The substance inside was weighed at 2.5 grams, and later examined optimistic for fentanyl, based on the report.
The officers charged him with Possession of Schedule I-V Managed Substance, 10 Grams or Much less, then launched him with a summons to seem at third District Courtroom on March 4, the place he was arraigned on the cost and scheduled for the Might 19 courtroom screening.
