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September 11, 2007

Coventry councilman's arraignment postponed

SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Coventry Town Councilman Anthony J. Colaluca appeared this morning with his lawyer at Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal for a scheduled arraignment on a charge of refusing to submit to a chemical breath test.

Judge William P. Noonan postponed the arraignment, at the Oliver Steadman Government Center, in Wakefield, until Sept. 25 at the request of Colaluca’s lawyer, Timothy A. Williamson, who said he needed more time review materials from the Coventry police.

Colaluca, 24, a Democrat, was elected to the Coventry Town Council last November. He was arrested in Coventry on Aug. 25 for driving while intoxicated. He received a second charge when he refused the chemical breath test.

He appeared last week Kent County Third District Court, Warwick, pleading not guilty to the DWI charge and was released on $5,000 personal recognizance.

-- Journal staff writer Lisa Vernon-Sparks

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