One shot from the homeowner’s pistol was enough to interrupt the suspect’s attempted burglary.

Impatient with tardy delivery of a package a customer went postal on the mailman, court records say. But the mailman has some history too, the records claim.

The state trooper left the keys to the cruiser in the car before a thief stole the cruiser and rifle in it.

State police say they’ve got the man who stole a police cruiser and a police-issue rifle in Rutland Tuesday. They’re still looking for the rifle.

An alleged attempted murderer released to family custody is the latest ‘catch and release’ decision by Justin Jiron, who has twiced been appointed as a judge by Gov. Phil Scott.

The cruiser stolen this morning was recovered, but the Sig Sauer rifle remains at large.

Wilmer Rodriguez died from multiple gunshot wounds last weekend.

Police are tracing repeated car break-ins to a gang of young men. Also, state police are investigating two shooting deaths in the NEK.

Dr. Pedro Huertas, 69, now of Pasadena, Calif. is due for arraignment in U.S. District Court in Burlington this week, officials said.

An accused child rapist was released on $200 bail after his third violation of conditions hearing Wednesday.

Michael A. Gonzalez, 34, fraudulently obtained the five Teslas valued at about $607,000 from car dealerships in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Florida.

Avery Buchman, 64, of Brighton, is accused of possession of destructive devices, possession and use of explosives, burglary, possession of stolen property, and unlawful mischief.

Police are seeking two young people who reportedly stole a car in Vershire and stopped at a convenience store in Waterbury.

Police are looking for the white male who they say shot a 77-year-old retired college dean in Castleton.

Both men were arrested on multiple counts of distribution of both more and less than 2.5 kilograms.

The defendant had wanted to reunite again in the U.S. with his wife, Sarah Jones Larkin, who was due to have their first child late last week, records show.

An elderly long-distance runner who collided with a passing trailer has lost his legal efforts to collect money for injuries received in the accident five years in Grand Isle County.

Supporters of banning traffic stops for minor offenses say police officer discretion “combines with a long history of negative racial stereotypes in which African American and Latinx people are portrayed as more criminal and dangerous than white Americans.”

Ciro Temich-Ramirez, 35, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Tuesday afternoon to face the two felony counts.  

The man who police say kidnapped a woman and threatened to pour gas on her and light her on fire is on the loose, whereabouts unknown.

After approaching officers with a brick, a suspected stalker with 17 recent police interactions injured a Burlington cop, was arrested – and then released by a judge.

Police say a North Pownal man sexually assaulted a child, was released on bail, violated conditions by approaching the child’s home, and was released again by a judge in Bennington County.

While the feds sentence fentanyl dealers to years in prison, some Vermont judges no fines and no new time. Meanwhile fences are built around courthouses to stop incessant drug activity.

Neither crime nor the police took the weekend off.

Troopers are investigating all possibilities in this incident, including Pepper’s claim it was an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dennis is charged with the second-degree murder of a Springfield, MA man in what police say was a drug-related shooting.

Freddy Rodriguez, of Rhode Island. was found with more than 12 kilograms of cocaine as he prepared a nighttime load for a kayak to head north from Highgate to meet another vessel coming from Canada.

As the stolen Subaru caught fire, Tatro resisted efforts to be removed. Then Officer Emily Fitzpatrick deployed her Taser, Colchester police say.

Jailed for felony shoplifting. Sentenced for possession ‘ghost gun’ ammo. Sentenced for meth dealing.

The situation unfolded when Kilbreth got into a physical altercation with another woman who also lived in the neighborhood.

An alleged fentanyl dealer and an alleged ski resort burglar were both released on citation to appear in court. A man who shot at another man was jailed pending his (prompt) court appearance.

Police say DeThomas sold fentanyl and/or cocaine on multiple occasions in and around Springfield, Vermont, during the spring and summer of 2023.

The 40-time felon who reportedly told a store security officer “Dude, I’ll blow your head off” now finds himself in the federal court system.

Burlington armed robbery suspect Eric Edson fled police by bicycle, sailboat, kayak, dump truck, and tractor – to no avail.

Ella Mae Woods, 75, developed a scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration for 28 years and to have her dead mother’s benefits wired to a joint account at the TD Bank in Brattleboro Vermont from the U.S. Treasury, the two-count indictment said.

Robbie Mafuta’s hospital psychiatrist thought his paranoid schizophrenia might have been caused by heavy use of high-potency marijuana.

Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a man they say was involved in an armed robbery and pursuit in Burlington last week.

Mom pulled the trigger on the fusillade of shots that killed her husband, an accused murderer says.

Christopher Ellis had been staying with the Garvins since April. Then he shot them both and fled in the son’s truck, police charge.

Judge Alison Arms rejected a plea agreement for two years in prison after reading what one victim said about Normandin: “He destroyed my life.”

Morristown has been hit with a crime wave this summer, and police say Steven Royce is right in the middle of it.

Bradford city leaders have been meeting for weeks about the growing violent and property crime, much although not necessarily all of it feared to be stemming from an influx of transients.

A brother of a murder victim is expressing frustration that VT State Attorney Sarah George is allowing Gregory Fitzgerald, convicted murderer of his sister, to go free after receiving life w/o parole

Police say a pickup truck bearing a ‘Trump for America’ decal was set afire and abandoned in a remote part of Topsham.

A Marine vet, Andrew Jensen has spent every year of his state police career in the Derby barracks.

A pair of out-of-staters, who police have linked to unrelated homicides in Vermont in recent months,  were ordered held without bail following their appearances in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.

Pursuing a lead on a fradulent purchase of power tools at a store in Derby, state police found a large stash of drugs – but not the suspected dealer.

Most drivers arrested for DUI at least have all four tires on their vehicles.

Gets 87 months in federal after nabbed in South Boston sting.

They became lovers when she was a prison guard and he was an inmate – a violation of state law.

Two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose. One pound, equivalent to 453,592.4 milligrams, is enough to kill 226,796 people. Twenty-two thousand pounds is enough to kill nearly 5 billion.

Roy’s Vermont rap sheet goes back six years.

Lydia Vorsteveld, a nurse at Porter Hospital, was swimming in Arnold Bay when she was struck by a vessel under motion operated by Gerard Vorsteveld of Panton.