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June 12, 2008

Update: Suspect in custody in alleged kidnap-rape

A suspect has been arrested in Providence for allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman early Sunday evening, the police said.

The man identified by Warwick police as Saul Pizzaro-Aviles, 27, was taken into custody mid-afternoon without incident at 183 Linwood Ave., in Providence's West End, according to Providence police Capt. Hugh Clements. Various police, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. marshals were involved in the joint investigation, he said.

Clements said that Pizzaro-Aviles' immigration status was not known this evening, but may be by morning.

He declined to say what, if any relationship, Pizzaro-Aviles had to the Providence address where he was taken into custody.

Pizzaro-Aviles is being held at the Providence Public Safety Complex. His arraignment is scheduled for tomorrow morning in District Court, Providence, Clements said.

A Warwick warrant charges Pizzarro-Aviles with kidnapping and first-degree robbery while the Providence warrant charges him with first-degree sexual assault.

Police have said the incident began shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of a Super Stop & Shop in Warwick, near the West Warwick line in a plaza at Quaker Lane and Cowesett Road.

The police -- who released still images from the store surveillance video -- said a man entered the store at about 5:40 p.m. wearing a dark tank top, baggy jeans and dark sneakers. He had a white T-shirt over his left shoulder, the police said, and was believed to have changed into that shirt while in the store.

Shortly after going into the supermarket, he was seen leaving in the T-shirt bearing a “Coors Light” logo on the chest.

The police said the man walked up to a car in the parking lot where a woman was sitting in the passenger’s seat while she waited for her mother to buy groceries. He threatened her with a kitchen or steak knife, got behind the wheel and began driving, according to the police.

The man drove to Roger Williams Park, where he is accused of raping the woman. She was treated at Rhode Island Hospital.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with archival reports

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 7:00 PM | Permalink

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