In October, a Newport County jury found that former Jamestown Police Det. Derek Carlino was negligent in his involvement in the death by suicide of a teenager. But it won’t end Carlino’s career in policing.
A report commissioned by the Portsmouth School Department found Carlino had worked with a football coach to pressure fifteen-year-old Nathan Bruno to name students who had participated in some minor harassment of the coach. Under pressure from two such authority figures, Bruno died by suicide in 2019.
Bruno’s family sued. In October, a jury awarded the family of Nathan Bruno $5.4 million, finding that football coach Ryan Moniz was the “proximate” cause of Bruno’s death, while Carlino and two other officials were “negligent.” In 2023, as the lawsuit was winding through the court system, Carlino left the Jamestown Police Department after a long career. But it wasn’t because of this case — or due to misconduct at all, according to officials. He’s now a patrol officer just across the bay in Narragansett…