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By Michael Donoghue, Vermont News First
A young Burlington man, well known to law enforcement, is due in Vermont Superior Court on Monday for his involvement in an aggravated assault on Main Street on Friday evening, Burlington Police said.
Joshua M. Genalski, 20, was lodged for lack of $5,000 bail for the felony assault charge, city police said. Genalski was taken to Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans Town, where records show he also is held on a charge of violation of conditions of release in the case.
Burlington Police failed to identify the name of the victim, who they said suffered multiple lacerations to the head and hands.
Police also did not say if it was a man or woman, but reported Genalski’s victim was in stable condition. Police added they believed there was no ongoing threat to the general public due to the arrest.
The incident happened near a two-story apartment building across from Memorial Auditorium on Main Street about 6:27 p.m., police said.
The assault is believed to have taken place over several minutes, with many potential witnesses passing by on foot and by vehicle in the area between South Winooski Avenue and South Union Street, police said in a news release.
The initial call to police indicated a physical altercation involving two individuals.
Genalski is known to local police, including in Colchester, South Burlington and state police in Washington County for past legal problems.
One of the more serious recent cases was this year when Colchester Police said Genalski was arrested on charges of aggravated domestic assault and cruelty to a child following a report of a woman attacked on Porters Point Road about 12:50 p.m. on Jan. 6
Genalski, who was living in Richmond, fled the scene on foot, but was eventually found with help from Burlington Police.
Colchester Officers said they determined one of the people involved had discharged a firearm outside of the residence. A child was also reported to have sustained a minor injury, police said.
A judge in that case ordered Genalski jailed without bail.
State Police said they ordered him into court in Washington County for violation of conditions of release on July 29 for leaving his residence — then in Waterbury — without proper supervision. Troopers had been called to investigate a vehicle that had been loaned, but had not been returned to the owner, police said.
South Burlington Police said they also investigated Genalski earlier for a simple assault complaint on Williston Road on Aug. 19, 2023.
The new case is assigned to the Detective Services Bureau and anyone with information is asked to call Burlington Police at (802) 658-2704.
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Categories: Burlington, Crime
we’ve accepted this type of violence as normal, perhaps the biggest crime in our state of Vermont.
Not all of us, some of us have common sense!! Namely Republican, voted for Trump.
I think Neil is referring to the majority of people in Burlington who have voted consistently to maintain this mess…but i suppose all the voters of Chittenden County who have voted to keep Sarah George in office also share the blame.
Just another day in the cesspool known as Burlington, which is being controlled by progressive nonsense, even the Police Chief has had enough because he’s being overshadowed by the gaggle of fools known as the city council and the DEI Mayor.
Joshua M. Genalski, is just another POS roaming the streets in Burlington, and you let this happen by keeping those you elected in power…………………… wake up, people.
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And he wasn’t in prison despite his long rap sheet why?
Simple answer: See Rich Lachapelle’s comment above.
Anecdotally, it appears that until these criminals can be charged federally, nothing happens on a state level. Chittenden County voters continue to place ms. sarah soros-george as state’s atty, must be Chittenden County voters like the results.
In the topsy turvy town of Burlington any good Samaritan who intervened to help the victim would probably end up incarcerated. We don’t go there any more unless we must.
Burlington, a place of unchecked crime, that i will not visit.
And of course Sarah George will let him slide….again.
If there’s a message in this incident it’s, stay the F___ out of Burlington. There are no goods or services that can’t be obtained in another city that is deserving of your patronage.
When habitual offenders and their victims are denied justice, simple assault progresses to aggravated assault progresses to murder. Maybe that’s why those who love to tolerate this insanity are called progressives.
A good public spanking of perpetrators ought to be legal. Some countries literally remove a hand or limb. Cruel, yes. Effective, yes. Forgiving… well, no need.
I mean, not that I read replies, but how many of you have ever figured committing a crime to be sensible? I look at stuff like, say, selling contraband, or ripping off customers, or breaking and entry, or harming anyone for disagreements as a dead-end prospect. All its fruits are evil. All that’s needed is a little thinking-through any scenario to see how awful it is, mentally, emotionally, and physically. This is regardless of how impoverished a human might be. That thinking through stuff is what runs inside any normal person’s head, which is what prevents them from doing anything harmful to other creatures and most living organisms. I don’t even cut down a tree unless absolutely necessary.
I don’t think diversity, equity, and inclusion is the answer to alleviating criminal behavior or mental illness, or whatever “experts” think is the root of human violence. People have been known to be peaceful even in poverty over the course of history. There is always a primer that ignites violence — and that is typically envy and mis-allocated pride as a result.
“The assault is believed to have taken place over several minutes, with many potential witnesses passing by on foot and by vehicle in the area” … This sounds oh so parallel to the Vermont Legislators who just walk on by as they ignore the assaults they have inflicted upon Vermonters with burgeoning taxes, street crimes, catch and release, wasteful spending, and lock stepping to the Biden Woke agenda. Anyone remember the Kitty Genovese rape and murder case of the 1964? Despite her cries for help, bystanders did nothing amid the chaos but let her die on the street. Legislators are today’s bystanders who are reenacting the diffusion of responsibility…
Matthew 16:26 “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”