UXBRIDGE � Police arrested a Pawtucket, Rhode Island, man Wednesday who was trying to sell meat from a cooler in his truck.

But the arrest was for a default warrant on motor vehicle charges out of Taunton District Court. He was asked to cease and desist selling the meat without a license.

"We received a couple of calls from residents that someone was coming to their door trying to sell them meat," Police Chief Jeffrey A. Lourie said.

He said not only would a meat seller need a local peddler's license, but the Board of Health would have to approve the conditions in which the meat was stored and sold.

On Wednesday, police arrested Timothy Belmont, 53, of 57 Alfa Drive, Pawtucket.

Mr. Belmont was driving a white truck with Vermont license plates.

He was arrested on the outstanding warrant in the parking lot at Honey Farms, 1 N. Main St.

According to information posted on the Pawtucket Police Department's website, Mr. Belmont is a Level 2 sex offender.

Several people posted on Facebook earlier this month that they had been approached by a man in a white truck who was aggressive in his attempts to sell them meat.

Some of the Facebook posters said the man's truck was identified as Gourmet Advantage, although Uxbridge police did not mention any business name.

Uxbridge has had unlicensed door-to-door meat vendors in the past.

In April 2013, nondenominational Church of the End Times member George F. Drury, 6 Highland St., Woonsocket, Rhode Island, was charged with disturbing the peace and peddling without a license. When confronted by police, Mr. Drury showed them an expired 2009 Rhode Island peddler's license for Gourmet Delights in Woonsocket.

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