Judge Caprio presided over a brief morning docket in the Municipal Court of Providence, dismissing or exonerating several traffic-related summonses and using privately donated funds to pay fines and give cash assistance to defendants who said they faced financial hardship.

The judge told the court he would call four cases he found personally moving. In the first case heard (identified by the court as case No. 4), Yannelle Gueran told the judge she had four overnight parking tickets at the same location and that she was unemployed but scheduled to begin work on Oct. 5. Gueran said her car was not yet registered and she could not obtain a parking permit; she also said she was the sole caregiver for her 10-year-old daughter, Camilla. “So I have a gentleman actually from Eustis, Florida by the name of Gary Ash Craft and he sent in $25 and said please use this to help a single mom,” the judge said. “So I’m gonna use that $25 to pay for your ticket.” The judge also said he would give Gueran $50 in cash to cover immediate needs. Gueran replied, “Thank you so much.”

In case No. 3, the judge addressed a $30 ticket for parking with the left wheels to the curb. The defendant, identified by the court as Kyle Smith, told the judge he was homeless and sleeping in his car and had made a $10 partial payment. The judge dismissed the remaining balance and instructed court staff to give Smith funds from a private donor named in a letter as Terry Monroe, who had enclosed $50. A court officer noted that a 10 percent handling fee would reduce the amount to $40.

On a separate matter, the judge heard a red-light summons tied to a vehicle registered to a dealership. A defendant and a companion said the defendant’s car had been at the dealership for a three-week safety recall and that the dealership had received the summons and attributed the driving to the defendant. The judge said the summons would be returned to the dealership and exonerated the defendant on the court record, saying, “the summons is gonna go back to them.”

Finally, the court addressed a school-zone speeding charge. The defendant, identified in court as Mister Coelho, told the judge he is 96 years old and was driving slowly to take his adult son to regular blood work; the judge praised the defendant’s care for his son and dismissed the case.

All monetary assistance described in the session came from private, voluntary contributions that the judge said people had sent to him; the transcript indicates the gifts were not court funds but private donations routed by the judge’s office. The court’s actions in these matters were individual case dispositions: a paid ticket and cash assistance in Gueran’s case, dismissal in Smith’s case, exoneration and forwarding of the summons to a dealership in the red-light matter, and dismissal in the school-zone case. The session closed after the judge delivered those rulings and brief remarks about compassion and community.

The court did not record any formal motions or votes; the outcomes were judicial case dispositions announced from the bench. The next procedural steps for cases where a summons is returned to a dealership will depend on the dealership’s response and any follow-up enforcement or administrative action.