PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Police arrested two people Saturday after a man allegedly assaulted a woman at the side of Route 95 southbound, just before the Thurbers Avenue curve.
State Police Lt. William Jamieson said a passerby saw a man, later identified as Yonaiby Whatts, 20, of 117 Camden Ave., Providence, strike Janae Page, 21, of the same address.
When the witness pulled over and tried to intervene, Whatts jumped into his car and fled. Apprehended on Ford Street and charged with domestic simple assault, he was transported to the Adult Correctional Institutions to be held as a violator.
His probation for marijuana possession otherwise would have ended Thursday.
Page was arrested on a warrant for failing to appear in court. She was later released.