Also tried to rob marijuana store
By VDC staff
A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison for a 2024 crime spree that included two bank robberies in Vermont and an attempted robbery of a marijuana dispensary, federal prosecutors announced.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont said that on September 30, Christopher Boisvert of Swanzey, New Hampshire, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss to 74 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Boisvert, who pleaded guilty on June 10, 2025, to one count of bank robbery, also admitted to committing a second bank robbery and an attempted robbery of a dispensary, all on August 26, 2024.
Prosecutors said that Boisvert and his co-conspirator, Meghan Cox, 40, of Laconia, New Hampshire, first attempted to rob a marijuana dispensary before Boisvert went on to rob TD Bank in Bellows Falls and Brattleboro Savings & Loan in Brattleboro. During the robberies, Boisvert was masked, appeared to be armed, and stole about $7,500, threatening bank tellers and their families with violence.
After the final robbery in Brattleboro, Boisvert led law enforcement on a high-speed chase through rural Vermont roads before abandoning his truck in a business parking lot. Once back in New Hampshire, Boisvert and Cox tried to mislead investigators by falsely reporting the truck stolen and claiming they had been hiking all afternoon.
Court records show Boisvert had an extensive criminal history, including multiple arrests and convictions for armed robberies between 2012 and 2023.
Cox pleaded guilty on June 12, 2025, to her role in the dispensary conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on October 20, 2025.
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael P. Drescher commended the joint efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Vermont State Police, the Brattleboro and Bellows Falls. Police Departments, and several agencies from New Hampshire and Massachusetts for their work in the investigation.
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The basic premise of restorative justice is the criminal has been restored.
Yet here we find previous armed robberies. If you asked third grade elementary school students the question, has this man been restored you would get a correct answer.
How come Montpelier can’t answer correctly?
Montpelier, here’s your sign.
And to simply add to what you’re saying, Neil, I would submit that we can’t really truly have restorative justice without retributive justice.
In spiritual terms, the retribution of God against our sins was meted out upon Jesus so that we could be restored to proper and vital relationship with our Father. The justice and judgment we deserve crushed Him so we could receive the mercy and grace we don’t deserve. But…we must first acknowledge our own sin and guilt and recognize that Jesus paid that penalty before we can experience the reality and benefits of the restoration with Father Jesus laid down His life to provide for us.
In natural terms, it would be like trying to restore our children to healthy and whole relationships and privileges without us ever pointing out to them the harm their wrong and selfish actions produce and by appropriately disciplining or correcting them.
What’s to restore if nothing has been lost or is in danger of being lost?
We can only see the beauty and value of mercy and grace when we acknowledge our sins and are impacted by the consequences and punishment which would result if we were to remain unrepentant.
This is where genuine humility and gratitude are birthed, and why it is only the humble who confess and renounce their sins who can truly appreciate and receive the profound value of forgiveness and restoration.
Until that point, many inmates and those who are let easily off the hook, but who deny and deflect the magnitude of their crimes, never change and are never restored.
“By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.”
Proverbs 16:6