Alex and Ani exec arrested in Jamestown for B&E, taking Jet Ski

RYAN BONIFACINO, senior vice president digital at Alex and Ani LLC, right, was arrested Aug. 2 by Jamestown police for breaking and entering and misappropriation of a boat for hosting a party at a home that was not his and taking a Jet Ski. He is pictured in a file photo from a Providence Business News summit. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
RYAN BONIFACINO, senior vice president digital at Alex and Ani LLC, right, was arrested Aug. 2 by Jamestown police for breaking and entering and misappropriation of a boat for hosting a party at a home that was not his and taking a Jet Ski. He is pictured in a file photo from a Providence Business News summit. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

JAMESTOWN – An executive at Alex and Ani was arrested earlier this month for breaking and entering, and misappropriation of a boat in connection with hosting a party at a home that was not his and crashing a Jet Ski that belonged to another resident.
Jamestown Police said Ryan J. Bonifacino, 31, of Spring Street, New York, was arrested Aug. 2. Bonifacino is senior vice president digital at the Cranston-based jewelry company.
He did not immediately return a call for comment.
A narrative about the incident from Jamestown police said that the U.S. Coast Guard alerted police at approximately 5 a.m. on Aug. 2 about a report involving four overdue boaters who had left an East Shore Road residence on two Jet Skis. Officers went to the home where a party was under way. One of the remaining partygoers had called the Coast Guard after the subjects did not return to the residence, police said.
Police said that the two Jet Skis were involved in a collision with a rock that resulted in serious injury to two of the individuals. They were on their way back to Jamestown from Newport, police said. The four individuals returned to the East Shore Road home on one Jet Ski – abandoning the other one – while officers were there. Two individuals were taken for treatment at Newport Hospital.
Upon further investigation, police said they determined Bonifacino entered the home illegally and hosted the party, offering alcohol and food from it. The officers also determined that the Jet Skis belonged to another East Shore Road resident.
The missing and damaged Jet Ski was found later in the morning and towed back to shore by the Jamestown harbor master.
Bonifacino will be arraigned Friday in Second Division District Court in Newport on the charges.

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