A Ludlow police rookie and his trainer were involved in the shooting of suspect Michael Mills of Cavendish, who moments earlier had twice rammed their police cruiser with his car.
A Ludlow police rookie and his trainer were involved in the shooting of suspect Michael Mills of Cavendish, who moments earlier had twice rammed their police cruiser with his car.
Both Vermont men shot by police in the last week were talking suicide. Both were hospitalized following the shooting. As of this morning, neither are dead.
A homeless man was charged with Hate Motivated Crime following a tumultous encounter with state troopers of ethnic origins.
A 14-year-old girl has been missing since yesterday from her Rutland home.
For the second time in three days, a Vermont police officer on Monday shot someone in the line of duty.
Burlington suffered three shootings in three days – one of them by a police officer. State police helped an understaffed BPD patrol downtown Saturday night.
The alleged murderer of a Guilford mom had been in police custody just two days before the August 9 stabbing death.
42 MPH over the I-89 speed limit gets a Milton driver a hefty fine, points on his license, and a day in court.
A 63-year-old Brattleboro woman was arrested yesterday for involvement in human trafficking.
A 17-year-old life is over following a Franklin County crash. The victim was not wearing his seat belt.
A Wardsboro woman repeatedly stabbed a Guilford woman, whose body was found on a logging road in Wardsboro.
A man broke bus station windows at 3 AM. Undermanned Burlington police had no-one to send. At 5 AM he terrorized two neighborhoods, smashing 33 windows.
Three teenaged drivers survived scary moments and/or bad judgement this weekend. Lessons learned. We hope.
An individual has been detained as a ‘person of interest’ in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body last night in the Windham County town of Wardsboro.
Ezra Miller, who plays ‘The Flash’ in the DC Comics Justice League movie franchise, was arrested in Stamford Sunday for allegedly stealing booze from a neighbor – just the latest reported incident from one of Hollywood’s bad boys.
Police are investigating a rash of recent bomb threats in Vermont, mimicking similar threats across the country.
A Newport man died of injuries sustained in a July 3 motorcycle accident in Derby.
The gunfire continues on Valley Street in Springfield. And an 84-year-old man drowned off Isle LaMotte.
An Essex man must appear in court to face charges he stole checks from a Jericho man, forged a signature, and cashed three checks at a local credit union.
Police are on the lookout for a stolen puppy.
Federal government nabs contractor for not paying his employee payroll taxes.
Hard drugs and a stolen plow were recovered in a drug raid in Roxbury. A West Hartford Connecticut man and five Vermonters were arrested.
A felon used a stolen cellphone to rob a vulnerable St. Johnsbury adult of all but 19 cents of a monthly disability/social security check, leaving him unable to pay rent.
Beginning today, state and federal law enforcement will be training Vermonters around the state how to survive an active shooter threat.
Two kidnapping last month – one definitely drug-related.
A child was injured after a drunk boater struck an inflatable trampoline on Lake Hortonia.
Road rage in Billtown, assault while driving in Westford.
Two men seen robbing a Best Buy store in West Lebanon would not face any jail time if caught, prosecuted and convicted.
This morning, the body of a 22-year-old New York man was recovered from the Green River Reservoir in Hyde Park.
Vermont’s Commissioner of Labor and his family Tuesday night were victims of an armed home invader who later committed suicide.
Nine incidents involving vandalism or theft of LGBTQ+ Pride flags have taken place since July 11 in Isle La Motte.
Mr. Spear alleged that Ms. Nanni blocked the road, instigated an altercation, and used bear spray on him and his companions.
A 52-year-old woman died in a house fire in Marlboro, despite efforts by a family member to save her.
Two more people are dead by gunfire in Burlington’s Old North End.
Despite a lengthy arrest record and a history of flight from custody, the ‘person of interest’ in the July 7 Hussein Mubarak murder was cited and released July 3 after being arrested for possession of a stolen gun.
The State of Vermont’s chief digital information officer got into a parking dispute on State Street in Montpelier, resulting in a citation for disorderly conduct.
A pair of thieves dressed in golf attire are stealing credit cards from country clubs and using them to buy gift cards.
A 23-year-old woman died of a gunshot to the head Tuesday morning, an autopsy found.
A man wanted for questioning in Tuesday’s killing of a Massachusetts woman in Brattleboro was shot dead by three Vermont police officers after he lunged at them with a knife later that night.
Alleged wrongdoing by state troopers included excessive use of force, possession of fraudulent Covid-19 cards, negligent use of firearms, and sexual harrassment.
An investigation into the death of a young woman in Brattleboro resulted in the death by police gunfire of a Massachusetts man.
The July 7 murder of a New American from Burlington has resulted in another Burlington man being held for questioning by police.
Sarah George on retail theft restitution: “It may ultimately come out of taxes, or something.”
A gun with no serial number, cocaine, and fentanyl were found in the Bennington drug raid.
Brakes failed on a UPS truck, causing a fiery collision.
A Barton man was arrested for setting fire to a home occupied by eight children and one adult.
94 MPH in a 50 MPH qualifies as egregious and gets you a big fine, too, as a Fair Haven man learned early this morning.
LaMere identified himself as a state trooper and said he was distracted by an email on his cellphone dispatching him to investigate a fatal crash.
“It’s not the the selling or the buying of drugs on the street that is the issue. It’s how the system is working – where is it coming from, and how do we cut off that source,” Gov. Phil Scott said.
The theft of catalytic converters is sweeping the nation, and Vermont is no exception.
A 14-year-old Essex boy was cited and released after striking a woman with a baseball bat for not surrendering her cellphone and passcode.
An apparent hand grenade stopped train traffic in Charlotte for two hours Monday July 11.
A Proctor man blocked drive-through traffic behind him as he tried to climb through the customer-service window of a Rutland Taco Bell, police say.
At least six – possibly seven – people shot to death in Vermont in the last six months had a known involvement with drug crime.
A Morrisville man alleged stole a car from a Newport city driveway, left at a high rate of speed, and a short time later drove it into a home in Lowell.
Separate accidents involving deer sent two Vermont drivers to the hospital this weekend.
A young man is dead after being shot in the head at close range last night in Burlington’s Old North End.
A “disrespected” drug dealer from Massachusetts shot a former customer in St. Johnsbury July 5, court records say.
A parking lot encounter between people who knew each other turned into a shooting Tuesday, July 5 in St. Johnsbury.
A hammer-like device, and not concrete as referenced by a shadowy group of violent pro-abortion protesters, was used to break seven windows at the Vermont State House June 25.
Another T/T hung up in the Notch. Another shooting. Two burglaries.
A Derby man became the sixth motorcylist to die on Vermont highways this year.
A Springfield resident asked the lawmakers who represent him what they think of the vandalism at the Vermont State House following the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe V. Wade.
An underage Rutland man asked an older man to buy a gun for him, police say. Both appeared in court for the illegal “straw purchase.”
Three days later, former state senator and now Gov. Phil Scott addressed Saturday’s vandalism of the Vermont State House, when asked directly on camera by a reporter. Sen. Becca Balint hasn’t said a word about it on her social media.
Over the July Fourth weekend, boaters will notice an increase in officer patrols on the water.
Addison County’s elected sheriff has been arrested for sexual assault on a 35-year-old woman with whom he was living in March.
Three-and-a-half hours and a $3544 fine later, a Florida tractor-trailer had been cleared from a hairpin turn on Smugglers Notch.
Seven Vermont State House windows were broken and porous, original 1859 granite was defaced with graffiti on the same night as the ‘Night of Rage’ promised by opponents of the overturning of Roe V. Wade.
Guns and drugs in Billtown.
A 20-year-old Bolton man allegedly stabbed a man almost twice his age following a road rage incident. He was cited to appear in court, and released.
Someone who volunteered at the Hoofbeats and Dreams horse rescue barn in Tunbridge made a complaint to the local humane society, who then notified state police.
The two state troopers involved in the bean-bag shooting of a Newfane man who wouldn’t come down from a roof early Friday morning are now on paid leave, pending investigation.
It was another violent Saturday night across Vermont, and therefore a busy night in hospital emergency rooms.
Two people died in separate accidents in eastern Vermont, and trucker from Dallas drove the wrong way on I-91 in Coventry.
Soon after being struck by a bean-bag round fired by a state trooper, a crazy-acting man fell from a roof 15 feet to the ground.
Jay Wilson fatally shot Dieter Seier during a family dispute involving Wilson and his mother that related to property and money, police say.
A Bennington man died after a two-car crash outside a hospital.
“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.