Mike Donoghue reports that the former president of Jay Peak wants the court to strike his $250,000 restitution order. Also, Vermont authorities knew in early 2015 of financial concerns raised about the EB-5 / NEK development deal.
Bad radio communications in an active shooter situation in Middlebury. Unintentional discharge of a weapon during a SWAT training on the Church Street Marketplace. And then there’s what happened in Boston….
A school resource officer was a vital link in reporting the latest mass violence threat to a Vermont school.
The gun range at a popular Waterbury gun shop was the scene of a fatal self-inflicted gunshot Saturday.
The grandson of a Vermont superior court judge and nephew of a well-known campaign ‘surrogate’ for Bernie Sanders faces charges of threatening terrorism and conspiracy to commit assault.
Bruce Erdmann was sentenced for a 2021 cocaine deal which resulted in a non-fatal overdose.
Rescue workers pulled a two-year-old boy from a brook in Clarksburg, MA after his Readsboro, VT father dropped him while leaving the scene of an early Saturday morning crash.
A 38-year-old resident of a Brattleboro homeless shelter axed the facility director to death Monday, police say.
Police found drugs, cash and guns at a Barre Town home yesterday morning.
A college student was arrested in Springfield with the help of the Springfield Police Dept. for allegedly threatening to kill a member of congress.
A human/canine search and rescue team yesterday found the body of Rebecca Ball in a wooded area in Weybridge.
Two rookie state troopers submitted their resignations and publicly apologized for using inappropriate language while playing a video game off-duty.
After participating in a post-game brawl that shocked the state and made national news, an Alburgh man suffered a fatal heart attack in his car.
A Hartford CT man is dead in what police say was a targeted shooting.
A man arrested on drug charges died in Bennington police custody yesterday afternoon. Also, police report several other deaths and death-related incidents this week.
A Montana lawmaker says that with the Border Patrol overwhelmed on the southern border, terrorists and cartels are focusing on the less-defending northern border.
Two Springfield, MA men and a Holyoke MA man are wanted in connection with a shooting over a year ago.
Two children and a family dog survived the blaze.
The influx of illegal immigrants into Vermont has overwhelmed authorities’ ability to return or hold all of them. Now some are being left by the Border Patrol at a Northeast Kingdom bus station.
Multiple juveniles were engaged at a drinking party at a lawmaker’s home Friday night, state police say.
“The charges against former state trooper Giancarlo DiGenova as outlined in court documents represent an extraordinary betrayal of the public’s trust, his oath as a sworn police officer, and his colleagues in law enforcement who serve the state honorably every day,” the head of the Vermont State Police said yesterday.
State Police today reported an arrest of a former state trooper for a lengthy, diverse list of thefts and other abuse-of-position offenses allegedly committed before his resignation last month.
Caught in the men’s room with $500 of stolen merchandise.
A Burlington sober house for women – since closed – was the scene of a fentanyl deal in January, 2021. A day later, two residents were dead of overdoses.
The State of Vermont failed to jail a repeat offender even when he carried crack cocaine into the state probation office. A federal judge jailed him this week for using his home as a drug dealer haven.
The owner of a cleaning business significantly overstated lost earnings in order to receive Pandemic Paycheck Protection funding.
A teenage Staten Island man was arrested at a Brandon convenience store for the November 7 targeted killing of a Brooklyn man in Rutland.
A 21-year-old South Burlington man may be facing murder charges following the death this weekend of the 55-year-old cellmate he allegedly beat in December.
A Windsor credit union manager finagled the credit card software to steal $137,000, court records say.
One of Lamoille County’s Finest now has more protection on the job.
A teenager charged with assaulting his one-year-old child will be tried as an adult.
A Watertown MA man was cited for negligent driving after traveling 125 MPH on I-89 March 7, state police say.
Stole a Lexus. Stole a pickup truck. Led cops on eight mile chase, police say. An Alabama man was lodged with $200 bail and will face a judge Wednesday.
A convicted sex offender, who has spent 30 years in mental institutions because he mailed death threats to Vermont news reporters and a state prosecutor, has been quietly released from federal custody to live in Winooski, court records show
Off-an-on heavy snows since Wednesday last week, and at least one erratic driver, led to several reported accidents.
The sounds of fighting were followed by a loud ‘bang’ in a Malletts Bay apartment. Police found a dead man and a dead woman.
You hear a gunshot. Outside your house you see a half dozen men in camo and toting guns. Within 24 hours are are charged with murder.
Judges are letting scofflaws treat court appointments like dinner reservations or hair appointments, says the Grand Isle County prosecutor.
Authorities are on the scene of an 11:45 AM collision between an Amtrak train and a tractor trailer on Quarry Road near Vermont Route 14 in Sharon.
Two state troopers are on paid leave – with no official reason given. Their suspension follows reports of off-duty state troopers engaging in inappropriate speech while playing a video game.
Crime update – everything from a damaged covered bridge to a harrowing kidnapping and attempted murder in the Northeast Kingdom to (another) human smuggling bust at the Canadian border.
The victim of a Feb. 5 shooting is recovering, and the alleged shooter is being held in the women’s prison.
No-one was injured in a big weather-related commuter pileup in Franklin County this morning. However, a single-car crash in Hartford yesterday killed the driver and a passenger.
A woman from Ecuador driving a car with Connecticut license plates was charged in court for attempting to transport three illegal aliens.
A Hartland woman finally knows who murdered her sister in Burlington in 1971.
A bus full of basketball players escaped serious injury last night when icy roads caused a collision.
State police were busy this weekend enforcing traffic laws and investigating another highway fatality.
Longtime news reporter Mike Donoghue broke one of the biggest crime stories in Vermont history on Thursday when he reported that the rape, beating and strangulation death of a Milton teacher more than 51 years ago in Burlington has been solved.
Several days after two car thefts in which police say he was connected, Foy was apprehended walking down Rte. 302 shortly after 5 pm with a shopping cart that carried a computer stolen from WalMart.
A man who had recently left a drug treatment clinic trashed a rented cabin, cut himself jumping out of a window, and then told police an intruder had shot him.
A Killington man whose girlfriend died in September 2021 of what he told police was a self-inflicted gunshot has been sentenced to four years in prison for related drug and gun charges.
The school shooting hoax has occupied much of Jen Morrison’s attention this week, but she says she’s not dragging her feet on the investigation into allegations of racist, sexist comments made by off-duty state troopers.
A fisherman has died after his Thursday fall through the ice on Lake Champlain, police say.
The fake calls about school shootings began at 8:40 AM yesterday and continued to come in for the next two hours. All told, 21 schools were threatened.
21 Vermont schools were hit this morning with ‘swatting’ calls falsely reporting shooting incidents.
A Randolph woman with an arrest record involving drugs and a car heist has been arrested for a convenience story robbery.
A decorated Iraq War veteran who transitioned genders after returning from the war has been arrested for the latest Burlington shooting.
60-year-old Russell Giroux was driving home from the fight at the Alburgh Community Center when he stopped his car and called first responders, police say.
A large fight between spectators of an Alburgh-St. Albans boys middle school game led to the death of one participant.
Crimes of Unlawful Fornication and Lewd and Lascivious with a Child in Southern Vermont.
Police say former Brighton PD Chief Jeff Noyes in 2017 drove the underage victim to a remote area and had sexual contact with her.
Fentanyl, crack and other drugs were seized by police from a Barre City home Saturday.
Police say a family member stole large sums from a successful Addison County logging company.
Vermont police leaders respond with disgust at the murder of a Memphis man at the hands of five cops earlier this month. See the video, decide for yourself.
A Vermont side judge falsely claimed 352 hours of pay, state police say.
Police say Danny Daniels of Philadelphia is the fifth suspect in a drug-related murder in St. Johnsbury.
In Chelsea, there’s a new sheriff in town – and a new staff, if he can find one.
Vermont’s police oversight committee stopped short of decertifying Orange County Bill Bohnyak for assigning investigative duties to a ‘Level II’ deputy, and instead sanctioned and reported him.
A state park and ride has become popular with crooks and less so with commuters.
Border Patrol agents in Vermont are now facing assaults as the number of crossings explodes.
Casella recycling center workers in Hartford found a local woman’s corpse yesterday.
Student threatens to shoot up the school, slit throats and sexually assault women.
Under the influence, a Springfield MA man drove a truck into a river in Ripton, police say.
Parking Wars! While state prosecutors pursue murder cases she won’t touch, Chittenden County AG Sarah George tries to get their cars towed from the courthouse parking lot.
A Rutland man was drunk and driving 120 MPH shortly after midnight this morning when he failed to “navigate a corner on the highway,” police say.
A truck driver who stopped to check on the welfare of a crash victim was forced at gunpoint to drive him to the Berlin Mall.
An East Montpelier man is being held without bail for alleged luring and sex assault of a child and sexual exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
A 24-year-old Bennington man with a history of speeding got a big ticket Wednesday.
Recently released video footage shows a young suspect being restrained by a Shelburne police officer after spitting on him. Police violence, or acceptable use of force? You decide.
A teacher sustained superficial injuries Tuesday afternoon after being shot in the back, Barre police say.
A Burlington man with more than 100 police engagements in recent years was arrested on outstanding warrants after police found him onsite of a suspicious death on Riverside Avenue.
After he was detained for threatening an ex-partner, a Craftsbury man set fire to the interior of the state police cruiser while handcuffed inside.
A man known to police and possessing firearms assaulted a woman and then barricaded himself in their home.
Arrested three times, released “on conditions” three times. In one week.
441 apprehensions, 135 gotaways in December alone.
A jailhouse assault sent a homeless man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A Lowell man with a 16-inch knife tried to force his way into a drug/alcohol rehab recover center.
Tundra the Siberian husky was stolen from his Tunbridge home on Tuesday.
A man with a Massachusetts drug crime record was treated for gunshot wounds at a Newport hospital Tuesday morning. He’s not saying how he acquired them.
One police officer tased 17-year-old Mischa Fay as he threatened others with a knife, but another shot him in the chest.
Two people, including a Hartford CT man, were arrested for felony possession of cocaine in Montpelier.
Criminal and civil action collections and asset forfeiture swept more than $2 million into federal coffers and then disbursed to victims, victims’ organizations, and law enforcement.
A men’s gold Rolex watch was among the items reported missing from the temporary storage room at the state police barracks.
A state trooper has been suspended for alleged misconduct related to possible theft from an evidence storage locker in the VSP barracks.
A Philadelphia woman who posted a social media video of herself socializing at a Burlington bar on Christmas Day was arrested yesterday for firing a gun there early Tuesday morning.
The bullet hit a pipe in the basement.
The victim was treated for stab wounds to the head, neck and arms and has been released from the hospital.
Police say a domestic incident at a Berlin motel resulted in the arrest of a 41-year-old man on charges of attempted second degree murder.
A St. Albans cop fired after striking a handcuffed woman in a jail cell was sentenced yesterday to serve 3-6 months in prison.
Berlin police are seeking this masked man for making fraudulent withdrawals at credit unions.
