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June 11, 2008
Police issue warrant for kidnapping, rape suspect
WARWICK -- The Warwick and Providence police have obtained arrest warrants for the man they allege kidnapped a woman in her car from a Quaker Lane parking lot and raped her in Providence’s Roger Williams Park early Sunday evening.
Warwick Detective Capt. Michael Babula identified the suspect as Saul Pizzarro-Aviles, 27, whose last known address was in Providence.
The Warwick warrant, he said, charges Pizzarro-Aviles with kidnapping and first-degree robbery, and the Providence warrant charges him with first-degree sexual assault.
On Tuesday, the departments reported that the carjacking occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of a Super Stop & Shop. They released a photo from a store security camera of a man leaving the store whom they later identified as Pizzarro-Aviles.
According to the police, Pizzarro-Aviles entered the store through its north doors, changed his shirt and then left the store. Once in the parking lot, Pizzarro-Aviles allegedly brandished a knife to commandeer the car, which was idling with the woman in the passenger seat waiting for her mother to finish grocery shopping.
Babula said Pizzarro-Aviles drove the woman to Roger Williams Park.
-- Journal staff writer Barbara Polichetti
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That's awful. It sounds premeditated. The scary part, he drove all the way to R.W. Park to rape her. We have to be extra careful and lock our doors while waiting in a vehicle. On hot days use air-conditioning. Let's be safe. I hope the scum bag gets caught soon.