“Within a week after Gobeil was trespassed from Canaan, VT school property, for harrassing/intimidating students, other parents, and staff regarding mask recommendations, Gobeil communicated to people inside Solomon’s Store a threat to kill a lot of people at Canaan school, and he expressed concern about a potential ‘drag queen show,’” court records say.
A 36-year-old Canaan man has been arrested in New Hampshire for making threats against the local high school.
A Colchester man involved in a shooting outside a Burlington bar has been sentenced for dealing cocaine and trading cocaine for a semi-automatic pistol.
A Winooski man arrested repeatedly for car theft – and then failing to appear in court – was jailed last week after police say he stole a car off of a Burlington dealership parking lot.
A $5000 reward is being offered for information about a car set on fire with a flammmable liquid at 5 AM May 20.
The state’s dispatcher shortage is expected to become more acute in the coming months, as call volume typically increases during the summer, and additional staff departures are expected.
The death of Justin Gilliam, 38, is the latest in a series of shootings in Springfield, a once-prosperous mill town now experiencing heavy drug crime activity and a shortage of police officers.
Rather than paying to dispose of the boat properly, Bailey devised a plan to set the junk boat adrift in the Missisquoi River – but he didn’t have a tow hitch.
A search of a bag Moffitt hurriedly threw in the trash revealed more than 3,000 bags of suspected fentanyl, and distribution quantities of powder and crack cocaine.
Ryan Goodrich, 37, of of the Windham County town of Athens was arraigned Wednesday, June 1 on an indictment that alleges on March 3, Goodrich unlawfully possessed an unregistered short-barrel shotgun, unlawfully possessed multiple shotguns and an AR-style rifle due to Goodrich’s prior felony convictions, and unlawfully possessed heroin.
The State of Vermont has allocated $6 million in the last three years to enhance school safety – is it enough?
No time like the present to build back the Burlington Police Department from 66 officers to the target roster of 85.
School Resource Officers and other preventive steps are vital to preventing a school shooting in Vermont, candidates say.
Alleged Jeffersonville road-rage shooter Jermaine Morris, 41, turned himself in to troopers at the Williston Barracks and was taken into custody without incident.
Vermont State Police on Wednesday, June 1 arrested a suspect in the 2019 homicide of a woman whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Searsburg
Police were contacted by school staff who informed them they received a report of an alleged threat made to the school by a student.
A man claiming to be a U-Haul employee took a truck from a Burlington location – but he wasn’t.
Two schools now facing shooter threats stopped having school resource officers during the last two years.
Puma reportedly has been in and out of the state criminal justice system for years. In 2019 he punched his defense attorney in the face in court, and required five officers to restrain him, the news report said.
Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Berk Eratay, 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested yesterday for conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire of Gregory Davis of Danville.
Before you wave a pistol at someone while driving 100 MPH, make sure it’s not a state trooper in an unmarked police car.
On Jan. 6, 2022, Bennett was charged in Rhode Island criminal court with Felony Assault and/or Battery, Reckless Driving and Other Offenses Against Public Safety, and Resisting Legal or Illegal Arrest.
Lt. Tara Thomas will lead the ‘tech police’ of the Vermont State Police. The unit deals with computer, cellphone and cyber-crime, conducts polygraphs, and provides protection for the governor and other dignitaries.
A Springfield man living on Vermont’s most dangerous street plraded innocent in federal court last week for possession of a deadly pipe bomb.
An Arlington man charged with bigamy and a threat to a Northeast Kingdom school are among weekend crime reports.
There have been 94 violent gun incidents in Vermont thus far in 2022, and state leaders say many are connected with the growing fentanyl crisis.
Voyeuristic videos taken in a bathroom at Merrill’s home depicted nude girls, police say.
The seventh theft of a catalytic converter was unlucky for an alleged Newport thief.
A young child was hospitalized following an I-89 rollover accident that ejected her and three other people from a pickup truck.
A Vermont conservative activist upset with Ben & Jerry’s call to defund the police is urging others to ‘never buy another tub.’
As of May 16, there have been 24 crash fatalities on Vermont’s roads in 2022 – a 33% increase over last year.
The bobcat that entered a downtown Windsor home last Friday the 13th and bit the homeowner has tested positive for rabies.
The following Vermont State Police reports were edited and published by the Newport Dispatch. A man died after trying to fight a wildland fire in Rochester Thursday May 12. Authorities were notified […]
Jailed last May for allegedly selling heroin out of a Barre apartment, a Springfield MA man was selling fentanyl out of a home in nearby Washington before a SWAT team raid last Friday.
State police are looking for a Jeffersonville road rage & shooting suspect; Clark pleads innocent to attempted Murder 2; SWAT teams hit drug dens in Town of Washington.
Of the 169 use-of-force incidents recorded by VSP in 2021, 10 involved black people – seven of whom were men.
Police say Parker Clark was doing ‘donuts’ with his truck, struck a man standing nearby, and then tried to abandon him in a creek in a remote ravine.
A Vernon man is charged with killing his mother in 2016 – as well as his grandfather in 2013 – to obtain money from their estates.
A father shot his son in a turkey hunting accident in Hartford Sunday.
A county prosecutor criticized her over-lenient treatment of suspects of violent crime will face a primary challenge from a trial lawyer who promises more protection for the public.
A Springfield man attacked with a shovel in February was shot in the leg on Monday; it was the third shooting on Valley Street since April 5.
An early Saturday morning car chase resulted in the shooting death of a Swanton man.
In separate crashes, a pair of Harley Davidson riders died on Franklin County VT roads this weekend.
Feds jail alleged Colchester VT shoplifter Sabrina Kingsbury, who police say threatened Church Street Burlington store employees with a knife.
State cops investigate stolen Pride flag, stolen BLM yard sign, and a missing horse.
Last’s week Burlington Pride Center vandalism is an example of the same ‘hate’ that led to a murder of a transgender person and critical news coverage of a Burlington school webinar last month, LGBTQ leaders say.
Ariel Quiros was sentenced to five years in prison, more than three time the sentence imposed on fellow EB-5 fraudsters William Kelly and Bill Stenger.
Police are seeking a young man in his 20’s named “Taye” for his role in a drug-related road-rage and gunfire incident in Grand Isle April 22.
The child walked into a Willard Street, Burlington store on crying and asking for their dad. The shivering child was wearing only shorts, a t-shirt, and winter boots with no socks.
Photos, video link of unsecured chair flying out of bed of pickup truck on I-89 and striking window of a state police cruiser.
Five Windsor County men are charged with poaching 14 deer.
A German shepherd was shot in Tunbridge, and a distracted driver dies from injuries resulting from a crash on I-89.
Hazing by waterboarding by Norwich rugby players conspiracy to kidnap a Danville man found dead a day later, drug possession, and selling unauthorized British flea powder.
A woman known for her anti-Covid 19 policy yard signs was arrested and jailed after she (police and local press say) disrupted a Townshend school board meeting.
A bold shoplifter last week threatened Burlington store employees with a knife.
Dangerous gun incidents struck Grand Isle, Springfield, White River Junction, and Burlington this weekend.
Bought the gun in Vermont, traded it for drugs with a Massachusetts drug dealer.
Like fellow EB-5 fraudster Bill Stenger, William Kelly has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.
Fern Feather was either the aggressor or the defender in a violent altercation over a year ago in Morristown, according to local police reports.
Two Massachusetts men died after their kayak capsized on cold, choppy Lake Seymour.
Burlington’s third ‘gunfire incident’ of the year took place Good Friday morning in City Hall Park.
An April 15 Vermont State Police press release misidentified an alleged Rutland shoplifter.
A state police detective punched his family dog and then lied about it under oath, state police say.
Bad driving and bad behavior lead to tragedy and charges stemming from incidents on Vermont highways.
Bill Stenger, the Vermont-based partner in a plan to defraud 220 immigrant investors seeking green cards, was sentenced last week to 18 months in federal prison.
Police are looking for thieves who stole remote control cars and equipment in Fairfax.
Why did a 14-year-old girl collapse in gym class and die shortly thereafter?
Following a murder Tuesday in Morristown, transgender advocates are angry at the “exterminationist narrative” they say is employed by by some media, political candidates and legislators.
A transient man has been charged with the second-degree murder in Morristown of a Hinesburg man.
A Venezuelan woman filmed herself torturing a young boy to fulfill the sick fantasies of a paying customer in Burlington, police say.
Indictment of an out-of-state teenager selling death in Bennington.
A woman under the influence was first heard, then seen, growling underneath a porch in Montpelier.
Missing since March 25, Mary Reid was last seen at her home in Searsburg.
Shots fired in Springfield. Helicopter searching for missing man in St. J. Westminster burglar shot AND arrested. Alleged sex criminal commits suicide.
Excessive speeding and an apparent death by suicide in a St. Johnsbury prison lead the police news today.
A Burlington man and former nurse ordered a custom-made torture video of an enslaved child.
A Derby man who police say assaulted his month-old daughter has been charged with second degree murder because her death 15 years later was due to injuries received.
A snowmobile race at Suicide Six turned deadly for one of its racers. And another inmate found dead in a State of Vermont prison cell.
A 22-year-old South Burlington man has surrendered to police in connection with the weekend shooting in a Burlington parking garage. But first, he got a lawyer.
Police are seeking a 53-year-old woman missing from her Searsburg home.
Two Massachusetts men are in jail after holding a Williamstown man in a room for two hours.
A Lyndonville man’s was found dead in his burning apartment this morning.
A police garage shooting, an Alburgh store break-in, and a DUI rolling into a police cruiser were among the criminal incidents investigated by Vermont police this weekend.
It’s not just storms and cyberattacks that cause blackouts. Sometimes it’s just a drunk teenager.
Eike Blohm’s federal sentence of 100 months will run concurrently with the 80-to-82-month sentence of imprisonment Blohm received in Vermont state court as a result of his guilty pleas to lewd and lascivious conduct and voyeurism.
Two Manchester girls have been missing since Saturday.
During 2021, the first full year of the pandemic, reported online crime against kids increased 20%.
The body found in a Cambridge fire last week has been identified.
A months-long simmering disagreement erupted into gunfire in Essex.
DNA at the Brianna Maitland car site matches one of 11 ‘persons of interest.’
‘Hey honey, I’ll be home in 10 minutes….uh-oh….make that 20 minutes.’
A body was found in the aftermath of a fire yesterday in Cambridge. Identity as yet unknown, police say.
A million-dollar cocaine smuggling deal was broken up by undercover DEA agents in Burlington.
On the lam: suspected Rte. 12 Burglar. Arrested: Brooklyn man suspected of St. J murder. Neglected, not lost: kitten in Londonderry.
A Morrisville man with the user name “IncestKyle” has been sentenced for distributing child pornography.
A state of Georgia man has been charged with selling fentanyl in South Burlington.
Note #1 to self: don’t leave heroin where police officer can see it. Note #2: when he takes the heroin, don’t try to take his gun.
A local Baptist pastor with experience working with the mentally ill, substance abusers, and veterans won’t be the volunteer chaplain for Montpelier PD, after all.
Teenager tops out at 113 MPH on I-89. 59-year-old woman U the I backs her car into a police cruiser. Police arrest Barre man for bank jobs in Essex and Burlington.
Legislators, who can’t be sued for the decisions they make on the job, are considering a bill to strip cops of the same protection. Vermont’s top cop predicts all-time low police staffing if S254 passes.
