Sam Spadavecchia holds a portrait of him with his husband Pablo Grave de la Cruz, left in the photo, in the couple’s North Providence home. De la Cruz is now being held in detention in Texas and planning to self-deport to his native Guatemala. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)
The SUVs pulled up quickly outside of the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal in Cranston around 10:30 in the morning on June 17.
Pablo Grave de la Cruz, 36, had just left a hearing inside where he pleaded not guilty to a charge of refusal to submit to a chemical test after being involved in a one-car accident in Coventry. He was dressed for the occasion, in a collared shirt and slacks. He had plans to go out for breakfast…