Carnevale |
By Will Collette
State Rep. John Carnevale (D-Johnston) has been indicted by a grand jury of two counts of sexual assault, one for first degree and one for second degree sexual assault as well as a third charge of assault with the intent to commit sexual assault. The Associated Press reports the charges stem from a July 28 incident in Johnston.
Carnevale is a retired Providence police office on a disability pension.
GoLocalProv reports that this is just the latest in a string of arrests of Carnevale for violent crimes. In 2004, he was arrested by North Kingstown police for assaulting his ex-wife. That was, according to GoLocal, his third arrest in five years.
They also noted that in each of those four arrests, the charges were either dismissed or he was found not guilty. In this, his fifth arrest, the law states that he is innocent until proven guilty.
Dan Gordon |
Very classy "no comment" from Rep. Dan Gordon, who in addition to being found guilty and doing jail time for violent crimes against women, blamed war wounds he received in Iraq, when the Marine Corps says he was never in Iraq and never had any war wounds.