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The Hopkinton Police obtained an arrest warrant for Keith A. Brown, age 34 of 347 East Main Street, Fall River, MA and Hope Valley, RI for 1. Driving under the

Gian Mattiello has filed a lawsuit against Cranston police officer Andrew Leonard against the department and against the city.

The Providence Journal WARWICK — In a secure area of the Cranston Police Department, Officer Andrew Leonard noticed something about a prisoner: The young man's nostrils were flaring. The man, Gian Mattiello, had quickly turned toward Leonard as another officer tried to remove a tie from Mattiello's long hair. Then, Mattiello had moved his forearm in a way that broke Leonard's grip on his right arm. This was the testimony that Leonard gave Wednesday in District Court, where he is on trial, accused of assaulting Mattiello in an excessive use of force in March of 2020. Leonard took the stand a...

Cranston police officer found guilty of assault, won't serve jail time WARWICK — A Cranston police officer faced a year of probation on Thursday after a District Court magistrate found that he had assaulted an unarmed prisoner in a secure area of the Cranston Police Department. Officer Andrew Leonard missed various opportunities to de-escalate the situation and opted for unreasonable force, according to Magistrate Judge J. Patrick O'Neill, who gave his verdict immediately after closing arguments Thursday afternoon. "It's a sad case all around," O'Neill said.  O'Neill rejected Leonard's a...

He testified that the officer connected with a knee and took a blow to his face, but he shied away from detailing the exchange blow by blow. "I'm not watching the guy's movements," Mattiello said. "I'm in the fight. You know. I shouldn't have to go through that." Mattiello was the first witness in the case, taking questions from Assistant Attorney General Daniel Guglielmo before Magistrate Judge J. Patrick O'Neill. He had been arrested in the wake of a domestic incident involving his brother. He was accused of assaulting his brother with a piece of aluminum. Taken into custody by Leonard and ...