By Mark Reynolds
WARWICK — A former Johnston
police officer who was accused of breaking into a Warwick home and threatening
to “blow everybody away” will receive a suspended prison sentence and
probation, according to a spokeswoman for Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin.
As a part of a plea agreement,
the former officer, Marisa Ciccone, appeared Jan. 21 in Superior Court, and
pleaded no contest to willful trespass and simple assault, according to the
spokeswoman, Emily Martineau.
On Tuesday, Ciccone received a
one year suspended sentence along with probation for each count with the
sentences to run consecutively, said Martineau. A judge also ordered
substance-abuse counseling.
At the time of her arrest in August,
Ciccone was charged with misdemeanor counts of simple assault and disorderly
conduct and a felony count of breaking into an occupied home.
A 17-year-old woman accused
Ciccone of punching her in the nose during an incident at 53 Byron Boulevard,
Warwick. The teen’s uncle, Jamerson M. Bateman, told police that Ciccone had a
serious problem with cocaine and had conspired in several profitable drug
deals, according to arrest reports from the Warwick Police Department.
Ciccone had come to his home
looking for another person as well as money and drugs, Batemen had told police,
the reports say.
She was fired from Johnston
police in August 2013.