Warwick man charged with stealing RIDOT backhoe, driving it to State House
A Warwick man driving a backhoe at 11:30 p.m. on a January night behind a DPW building aroused suspicion, and now he's charged with stealing it fro...
A Warwick man driving a backhoe at 11:30 p.m. on a January night behind a DPW building aroused suspicion, and now he's charged with stealing it from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. The 59-year-old man allegedly told state police he took the 1998 John Deere backhoe from the RIDOT facility in Johnston. He said he drove to the Rhode Island State House, where he left it parked "for a couple of days," before moving it to the Providence DPW building on Ernest Street where he was spotted, according to a press release from Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F.