Providence police on alert for more gun violence make firearms arrests
The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE — After a week of violence in the city, police on heightened alert arrested two men on Friday night on charges of illegal possession of firearms. In one case, police arrested Bryant Sanchez, 31, of Providence, after Patrolman Guillermo Vargas was flagged down on Cranston Street by an unnamed individual reporting that someone in a white Jeep Compass with Michigan registration had just pointed a firearm at him. Moments later, Vargas spotted the white Jeep turn left onto Cranston Street from Hanover Street without using a turn signal. He caught up with ...