I-Team: City DPW worker faces drug charges

PROVIDENCE -- A Providence Department of Public Works employee has been busted on drug charges, the NBC 10 I-Team reported.

On Wednesday afternoon, a task force of FBI agents and Rhode Island State Police arrested Victor Randall in Providence.

Randall, 56, is a city DPW worker.

Police said they allegedly saw Randall sell marijuana to an elderly man.

Police said they searched and found a bag of marijuana on Randall and "other substances" that could be drugs in his house.

Police confiscated Randall's city car.

Randall was not at home, and a woman purporting to be his wife claimed to the I-Team on the phone that her husband had no drugs on him when police searched the house and that he did nothing wrong.

"Obviously, any person charged with a serious criminal offense such as that will go through the normal human resources department termination proceedings. That behavior, if it's true, is totally unacceptable. That person should not have a job," Mayor David Cicilline said.

State police said the investigation is continuing and that when the toxicology report comes in, more charges could be filed.