Welcome to Arrest Stories. A forty-year-old Coventry woman was arrested after allegedly sending explicit photos of her ex-boyfriend to his mother on New Year's Day. Here's what may have happened.
On New Year's Eve, Stephanie Hopkins' ex-boyfriend returned a cellphone gift to Hopkins. At approximately three a.m. on New Year's Day, Hopkins sent explicit screenshots to the man's mother using the returned device.
The ex-boyfriend entered a Rhode Island State Police barracks in Wickford to report the incident. A trooper called Hopkins a short time later to investigate the allegations.
During questioning, Hopkins told police her ex-boyfriend mistreated her throughout their relationship and that she sent his mother the video that he would send to dudes as retribution for his alleged mistreatment. Hopkins informed troopers that she believed her ex was solely doing this as he was arrested for the same crime in May of twenty twenty-five.
Police determined the photos were sent from the ex-boyfriend's old phone. The investigation revealed that Hopkins had a brief intimate dating relationship with the man, and at the conclusion of the relationship, the alleged incident occurred.
Rhode Island State Police arrested Stephanie Hopkins at her Princeton Avenue home on Thursday at about four p.m. on a warrant for unauthorized dissemination of indecent material. Hopkins appeared to roll her eyes in her booking photograph following her arrest.
The forty-year-old Coventry resident was taken into custody without incident at her residence. Police reports indicate the explicit material was transmitted in the early morning hours of January first, just hours after receiving the returned cellphone from her former boyfriend.
Hopkins has a pretrial conference scheduled for January twenty-seventh. The case involves allegations of revenge-related distribution of intimate images without consent.
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