SIGN THE PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG “Pawtucket’s residents, taxpayers, and first‑responders deserve an accountability system that can be trusted. Today, that trust is broken. Since 2018, Police Chief Tina Goncalves has also served as Acting Public Safety Director—the official charged with investigating the very officers she commands. Rhode Island law is clear: public officials must avoid […]

RI ATTORNEY GENERAL ASSISTANTS USED A COERCED STATEMENT OBTAINED DURING A RULE 5(a) McNABB-MALLORY INITIAL APPEARANCE VIOLATION TO WIN A CASE AND CONVICT AN INNOCENT MAN TO COVER-UP DISPATCHER GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND POLICE DEPARTMENT GROSS NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE The Pawtucket Police Department’s Dispatcher, Michael Fidalgo, Canceled the Paramedics and then told the EMTs to STAGE for

For five (5) long years Victor Colebut has been unlawfully detained without bail and he has endured all of the Pawtucket Police Department’s and the State’s attorneys abuse of power. Rhode Island Department of Corrections Memo: Restrictive Housing (Solitary Confinement/Segregation) and Policy Changes effective 7/30/23 After a wrongful conviction verdict on February 24, 2025 Victor

Rising number of false convictions shows stark racial patterns By Hassan Kanu September 27, 2022 “Sept 27 (Reuters) – The worst miscarriages of justice any system can produce – the conviction or death sentence of an innocent person – are largely driven by racism in the U.S., a new report by the National Registry of

5 Years Illegal Pretrial Detention and a Wrongful Conviction “As Attorneys General, we will carefully scrutinize each and every action taken by this administration. If the Constitution or federal law is violated, we will not hesitate to act.” (RI AG Peter Neronha) To secure a conviction by any means is the worst type of prosecutorial

RI Pawtucket Police Department Detective David Silva and Detective Hans Cute abused the Reid Technique and Violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights of Victor Colebut during an incommunicado interrogation for the Sole Purpose of obtaining a statement to use against Mr. Colebut the interrogation also took place during a Rule 5a Initial Appearance Violation.

RI Pawtucket Police Interviewed Kristine Ohler’s Family The interview of Kerry Ohler, James Jennings and Eric Ohler – Kristine’s mother, father and brother – is evidence that was withheld from Mr. Colebut and not disclosed in the State’s Discovery signed and dated July 29, 2020. This information was not disclosed to the defendant until late

RI Pawtucket Police Policy Collection and Preservation of Evidence

RI Pawtucket Police Death Investigation Policy was violated if their fabricated crime was true