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Warren Police Log: Man Gets Caught with Cocaine, Marijuana, Pills

A look at arrests made by Warren Police from Monday, May 30, through Sunday, June 5.

Man Gets Caught with Cocaine, Pills, Marijuana

Josua Harris , 30, of Swansea, was arrested after police observed him walking on Child Street and recognized that he was wanted on an outstanding District Court bench warrant. Police said he was subsequently searched and officers found two bags of cocaine, two bags of marijuana, and two pills identified as clonazepam and lorazepam. Harris was charged for the drug possession as well as for the bench warrant.

Man Charged Twice in One Week

Brandon Raposa, 18, of 366 Child St., was charged on Wednesday after police were called to his residence parking lot for reports of a domestic dispute. Police said that officers interviewed subjects and determined that Raposa had assaulted a woman and refused to give her her cell phone back so she could call police. He was charged with domestic simple assault, domestic disorderly conduct and domestic refusal to relinquish telephone.

Raposa was arrested again on June 5, after police responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle on Cottage Street. Police said Raposa was in the vehicle with the woman who the courts had issued a no contact order for. He was placed in custody for violating a no contact order.

Other arrests made by Warren Police:

Ashley Hooton , 23, of 91 Arlington Ave., was charged with driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license and refusing to take a breathalyzer.  William Burns , 28, of East Providence, was charged with driving under the influence and refusing to take a breathalyzer. Martin Saquic , 37, of Providence was charged for driving on a suspended license.  Ryan Vazquez , 25, of 140 Market St., was picked up on a 24 hour domestic warrant. [["validates_presence_of",{"message":"Please enter your email address."}],["validates_length_of",{"too_long":"Your email address must contain between 5 and 100 characters.","maximum":100,"allow_nil":true}],["validates_email_format_of",{"message":"Your email address is not properly formatted. Mind giving it another shot?"}],["validates_uniqueness_of",{"message":"The email address you entered is being used by another member. Please try a different address.","client_can_validate":true,"exists_url":"/users/exists?

Apple's News Platform Battle - Joshua Gans - Harvard Business Review

An interesting battle is looming over Apple's newspaper and magazines subscription pricing for iOS devices (notably the iPad). Apple's offer to publishers is simple. They can offer an app that allows consumers to buy individual issues of their content or to subscribe to it from within the app; the publisher sets the pricing. But Apple will take a 30 percent cut of the revenues and it will also require the publisher not to undercut the price offered to iPad app users.

A publisher could grab a customer directly on their own site and avoid the 30 percent sharing rule, but publishers could not simultaneously offer the customer a discount to bypass Apple. That is, they could choose not to share revenues with Apple but could not do a side-deal with customers. Apple appears to have relaxed that rule , but others — for instance, Amazon — maintain it.

Not surprisingly, publishers would prefer not to share revenues in this way. And, of course, they needn't — if they attract paying customers "off pad," so to speak. But Apple has some real advantages in grabbing customers. Purchases made from an iPad are easy and can use Apple's iTunes accounts, so there's no extra adding of credit card information. That may not give Apple an advantage if publishers can sell their customers subscriptions who otherwise would not have been bothered. But if that ease is cannibalizing customers who otherwise would have purchased directly from a publisher, then that publisher will lose out. In fact, they may be better off not having an iPad app at all.

On one level, that seems to be a fair choice. Publishers can get to customers who have iPads without dealing with Apple. So if Apple imposes onerous terms on publishers, Apple will take a hit. This is why I have argued elsewhere that Apple's terms are unlikely to raise antitrust concerns despite some investigations by government authorities around the world. On another level, there may be a deal that would prevent publishers from having to make a stark in-or-out choice.

The posturing over this has begun. The Financial Times — which launched a successful iPad app last year — has just launched a new "web app" built with HTML5. The move to HTML5 has made them very similar to installed apps on devices, something the FT has exploited. If you open the FT's web app, it looks almost identical to its installed app. The FT also intends to add functionality to that app including a "read later" option . It is an important signal that perhaps the FT doesn't need Apple after all.