RHODE ISLAND
Telegram & Gazette
By Shaun Sutner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ssutner@telegram.com
WAKEFIELD, R.I. — During a brief court appearance in district court this morning, Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.
He is scheduled to appear in traffic court next Wednesday to answer to a charge of failing to submit to a chemical breath test.
The bishop, 61, was arrested in his hometown of Narragansett, R.I., Saturday night.
Bishop McManus was in a hit-and-run accident with a 2008 Hyundai on Boston Neck Road at Bridgetown Road, about two miles from his vacation home in Bonnet Shores, a picturesque waterfront neighborhood.
The driver of the car that the bishop’s 2012 Honda allegedly hit, police dispatcherJohn Smith, called 911 to report the bishop was driving erratically and crossing the center line. He then followed the bishop to his home at 215 Col. John Gardner Road, where police arrested him.
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