It’s not clear what happened, but whatever was going on in a room at the Providence Hilton Garden Inn near India Point Park on Tuesday is no longer believed to have been drug-making.
Providence Police Maj. David Lapatin told the Providence Journal, and confirmed to Eyewitness News Thursday afternoon, that investigators have ruled out narcotics. They’re now focusing on a different, “unusual” direction, as the Journal put it.
The FBI and the Secret Service are now working with the police department. Little more could be revealed because the investigation is ongoing. About 4 p.m. Tuesday, hotel management had called 911. When police got to room 323, they’d thought they’d seen smoke coming from the room.