A notoriously violent Burlington man is on the loose after city police refused to pursue him in his fleeing pickup truck due to “his unpredictable violent history.”
A father and son from Hartford, Connecticut involved in a 2020 Newport shooting now also face charges in the attempted murder of a Derby man.
A woman from Brooklyn is missing. She was last seen walking her dog near her Vermont vacation home.
A shot fired from Main and South Winooski broke a window in a Burlington elementary school.
Police shot and killed a 33-year-old man in a Rte. 7, Rutland McDonald’s yesterday.
Vermont State Police report a fatal car crash, a Shoreham armed robbery, and a stolen tractor – and their hiring of a new victim services officer.
A dairy farm milking parlor was the scene of an assault and robbery August 9 in Shoreham.
The man police say sexually assaulted a woman outside a Williamstown bar is in custody of New Hampshire police.
After cutting his tracking bracelet in Randolph, a Coventry man charged with domestic assault was arrested Thursday in Virginia, state police say.
Turns out the ‘customers’ the man was trying to sell a camera to in a Georgia convenience store parking lot were the lawful owners.
A man accused of keying more than 100 cars across Vermont fears FBI torture and needs mental help, the Burlington police chief and county prosecutor say.
Businessman Bill Stenger has pleaded guilty to a felony in connection with the Northeast Kingdom EB-5 scandal.
Police are seeking a 5′ 7″, short-haired man they suspect of aggravated sexual assault outside of a Williamstown bar.
First responders used drones and dogs to find a missing 11-year-old boy last night in South Pomfret.
A Sunday morning fire that destroyed a Richmond garage and its contents is considered suspicious.
A Hartford police officer Thursday shot and killed a man trying to strangle him.
Scammers have one of your passwords. Now they’re blackmailing you. What can you do?
Vermonters buying guns for their drug dealers, dealers failing the drug recovery program, and New York drug dealers plying their trade in Vermont – it’s all in the recent public record in U.S. District Court.
“My Progressive opponents continue to have their heads buried in ideological sand. It’s time to put public safety over politics,” Burlington City Council candidate Christopher-Aaron Felker said today.
At least three states—New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania—are considering legislation that would ban state and local government agencies from paying ransom if they’re attacked by cybercriminals. A bill in the Vermont Legislature would study possible ransomware prevention and enforcement measures.
A Manchester man is scheduled to appear in court today on charges he placed a GPS on the vehicle of a woman he was stalking.
The bodies of a man and woman were recovered in Crystal Lake in Barton this morning. They apparently drowned after leaving a pontoon boat Saturday.
Faced with growing crime and less police protection, the Burlington business community is taking downtown safety into its own hands – peacefully.
Burlington’s business community shouldn’t need to pay for their customers’ safety escorts because the anti-police City Council has defunded law enforcement.
A Richmond man died in a fiery crash this morning. Speeding is believed to have been a factor.
A Woodstock police officer was told to remove a “Support Our Police” sign from in front of the police department because, he was told, someone complained it’s racist.
Vermont State College students are taught to fight off armed intruders – but only as a last resort.
The airport owner and balloon pilot who fell to his death Thursday told videographer Ryan Miller that ballooning is a ‘zen’ act in which one gives up control.
Three Vermonters died in single-vehicle accidents on rural highways over the weekend, Vermont State Police said. All three victims were driving in good weather conditions. All were thrown from their vehicles. None wore seat belts.
Across the country, road rage altercations already were a problem before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. But in some areas, police say they’ve seen incidents spike during the past year and a half, as people have become more stressed and tensions have flared more easily.
The Burlington City Council last night unanimously approved a resolution to decriminalize prostitution.
July 9 at 6:44 pm, State Police stopped a vehicle for a speeding violation on VT RT 62, near the Berlin Town line in Barre City. The vehicle driven by Caleb Deneef, […]
Getting busted for heroin distribution in the federal system doesn’t mean a written citation saying ‘see you in court in two months.’
Seven people tried to enter the U.S. by racing in a car across the Haskell Free Library Lawn. They were apprehended later and returned to Canada.
A Calais woman who police say pepper-sprayed three Vermont Liberty supporters and struck one of them on the State House Lawn May 15 was charged July 2 with three misdemeanors. Today, she was referred for court diversion.
It’s happened again. Following a long, multi-agency investigation, a suspected heroin dealer has been arrested – and then released with a citation to appear in court more than two months hence.
An adult and four children were rescued after midnight Monday, July 5, by a State Game Warden who found them adrift in a boat without power on Lake Dunmore in Salisbury.
A pedestrian died while trying to cross Rte. 7 in Rutland Town Sunday night.
Vermont police will be using new techniques to stop impaired boaters this 4th of July weekend.
A Manchester woman must pay $655 after driving 99 MPH, Vermont State Police say. At 8 pm Wednesday June 30, police saw a vehicle traveling at 99 MPH in a posted 55 […]
A cop convicted of raping a 12 year old girl in 1988 has been charged with obstruction of justice.
Collision with the rock ledges on I-89 ended a June 25 ‘road rage’ incident involving two men, a Jeep Wrangler, and a Toyota Corolla.
H 296, a bill in the Vermont Legislature, would eliminate cash bail for drug offenses. A similar New York law has led to more drug abuse, the Essex County (NY) prosecutor said last week.
A Marlboro man is in critical condition after being shot Sunday evening.
A hospital employee discovered a camera hidden in a unisex employee bathroom in the Emergency Department. Investigators with the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations (CUSI) recovered the camera and discovered about 1,300 videos on the camera.
A customer conducting business at the bank grabbed McCandless and began pulling McCandless toward the exit of the bank. McCandless was given $10 in cash by a patron, and McCandless left the bank.
Through further investigation, troopers were able to review surveillance footage at the store and could see a male leave with the wallet.
Aiden Boettcher, 21, of Gulfport Mississippi was arrested in Hartford on June 9 for sexual assault. He was released on citation and is ordered to appear in court today.
Sunday at 2:30 pm, State Police received a call of a tractor trailer unit stuck at Smuggler’s Notch on route 108 in the town of Cambridge. The operator of vehicle, Kyle Shepherd, ignored and passed several clearly posted signs advising that tractor trailer units are not permitted.
William Kelly, 72, of Weston, Florida, pleaded guilty to two felony charges in connection with his involvement in the Jay Peak Biomedical Research Park EB-5 investment project, also called the AnC Vermont project.
State Police May 28 received several reports of phone calls purporting to be from the St. Albans Barracks and asking for personal information.
Friday May 28 the Federal sentencing hearing for Veronica Lewis, who shot Darryl Montague in Westford on June 29, 2015, was held in the Federal District Court in Burlington. Lewis participated remotely during the ZOOM broadcast. The state sentencing hearing is taking place at this moment.
A 48-year-old Jeffersonville woman died after her car struck a tree on Rte. 109 in Cambridge, state police say.
Gail Parent, 60, and Victor Parent, 94 of Northfield died May 25 of injuries sustained in a two-car crash on I-89 in Sharon.
The purpose of this detail was to promote safe and sober operation between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which is often referred to as the 100 deadliest days of summer, police said.
Montpelier police are asking anyone with cellphone video of the May 15 assault on Vermont Liberty supporters Karen Skau or Shona Reiter to contact them.
The vehicle had a manual transmission and the operator had not set the parking brake. He was unable to reach the brakes in time to stop the car from rolling into the river.
A two-year-old died Sunday evening after being accidentally struck by a car in Enosburg.
At about 6:37 pm Friday, May 21, the Vermont State Police received a report of a stolen Silloway Septic Truck from a location on East Randolph Road in Chelsea, Orange County. Police say an investigation located the vehicle in East Randolph and developed probable cause to arrest Kevin Bent, 32, on suspicion of using the vehicle without consent of the owner.
A Poultney woman says she was struck in the face with an open hand twice, struck again in the face with a stolen folded political sign, and then pepper sprayed after the Vermont Liberty rally at the Vermont State House Saturday.
Vermont State Troopers received a call at 2:30 pm May 19 that a man had fallen into Otter Creek in Mt. Tabor while fishing. James Woods, 67, of Rutland was pulled from the water by a witness who observed the fall.
Andrew Coyle, 29, of Ferrisburgh was cited on suspicion of assault and robbery, and aggravated assault. His fiancée, Marissa Tallman, 26, also of Ferrisburgh, was cited on a count of accessory aiding in the commission of a felony.
But when the hackers have struck police departments, cybersecurity experts say, they pose a particularly serious threat to public safety.
Detectives with the Vermont State Police say they are working to determine whether any of the five cases of armed robberies across the Northeast Kingdom since late last year are connected.
The Vermont State Police is investigating a reported incident of lewd and lascivious conduct that occurred in the vicinity of the Bolton Potholes swimming area off the Bolton Valley Access Road on Sunday afternoon, May 16.
Vermont State Game Wardens executed a search warrant in Middlebury on May 14 for evidence of turkey and deer being illegally possessed, firearms illegally possessed, and evidence of stolen property, police reports say.
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger is seeking applications for a community member to serve on the search committee for a new police chief.
Authorities are warning local businesses about counterfeit money being circulated in the Derby area.
China – once the victim of foreign powers exporting opium – is now the biggest exporter of fentanyl, the synthetic opiate that killed about 130 Vermonters in 2020.
State police now know where it started, but they still don’t know what started the fire that destroyed a 250-year-old Williamstown church.
A Richford man is facing charges including attempted murder with a hate-crime enhancement following an incident that occurred Wednesday morning, May 5, outside a private residence in town.
State Police say James Perry Jr., age 70, of Newbury, shot and killed his daughter Karina Rheaume, 38, of Newbury Monday afternoon, May 3.
CORINTH–A man who fell approximately 150 feet down a mine shaft on Saturday night was injured and taken to the hospital after emergency responders performed a technical nighttime rescue.
At about 4:15 p.m. May 1, near the intersection of West Main Street and Canal Street in Vergennes, two unidentified males in a vehicle tried to abduct a 13-year-old girl as she was walking home.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in mid-April reported a large forest fire in Canada rapidly moving towards the town of Franklin, VT.
The arrest of Poole was the conclusion of a Vermont Drug Task Force investigation that began in July 2020 in cooperation with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department and South Burlington Police Department. The investigation revealed that Poole sold methamphetamine and heroin.
Upon arrival troopers met with the Fairfax Fire Department and observed a vehicle in the driveway that had sustained fire damage from what appeared to be a plastic bottle containing gasoline that had been poured on the windshield and hood before being ignited.
A Vermont man who is a former Obama White House advisor and a partner in the group that purchased Marlboro College this year has been charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a financial institution.
Her list of superlatives is considerable: Jonas was the first commander of the Office of Fair & Impartial Policing and Community Affairs when it was established in 2016. She was the first woman in the Vermont State Police to lead the Internal Investigations Unit. And she was the first woman in the agency to attain the ranks of captain and major.
An amendment added this week by the Vermont Senate to H18, a bill clarifying legal language about child sex abuse, would give immunity against prosecution for the crime of prostitution – a potential first step towards the legalization of prostitution in Vermont.
Yesterday, Vermont Daily published a news story about the Burlington Police Commission urging the Barre Police Department to involve the FBI in the investigation of the year-long disappearance of a black man. The proposed resolution was couched in terms of doing more to provide justice for Vermont’s BIPOC community. Today, Barre Police Chief Tim Bombardier provided the following press release (issued April 13), in which he says “the Barre City Police have continued to exhaust all investigative avenues in our attempts to locate Ralph and to identify the individual(s) responsible for his disappearance.” He is considering a response to the Burlington Police Commission.
Game Warden Supervisor Arnold Magoon was killed by a poacher 43 Years ago today. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking Vermonters to take a moment to honor the memory of State Game Warden Arnold Magoon of Brandon and all of Vermont’s fallen officers.
The Burlington Police Commission tonight will consider a resolution asking the Barre Police Department to seek Federal Bureau of Investigation assistance on finding Ralph Jean-Marie, a black man from Brockton, MA who has been missing since April 13, 2020.
by Attorney General TJ Donovan As Vermont and our nation continue to work toward a more fair and equitable criminal justice system, the Vermont Legislature is considering an important bill that can […]
Unseasonably late snowfall has led to a series of accidents – including a rollover of an Agency of Transportation snowplow on I-91 in Barnet.
On April 20 at about 4:10 pm, Vermont State Police stopped a gray 2020 Honda Accord on Interstate 89 (southbound) in the town of Royalton. The Trooper stopped the Honda for traveling at 103 MPH in a 65 MPH speed zone.
Police responded to the North Country Federal Credit Union on Main Street at around 3:00 p.m. A man dressed in dark clothing was reported to have robbed the credit union, during which time he displayed a firearm.
A 58-year-old man from Coventry will face charges after driving his truck through a window at Maplefields in Newport.
Fugitive Harley Breer, 51, of Marshfield surrendered Wednesday following a manhunt that began Friday evening, Vermont State Police say.
Suspected heroin was found on Kirk’s person at the time of the arrest along with other unknown controlled substances.
South Burlington police chief Shawn Burke said his department supports many of the measures in a new federal police reform bill working its way through Congress, though the proposed elimination of “qualified immunity” is misunderstood, he said.
The Attorney General’s Office yesterday announced Mark Schwartz, 32, of Cambridge was arraigned in the Criminal Division of Vermont Superior Court in St. Albans on one count of Simple Assault. Mark Schwartz, a former officer with the St. Albans City Police Department, is accused of simple assault arising from an on-duty incident that occurred in 2019 involving use of a taser.
During continued investigation and search efforts for Harley Breer on Tuesday, April 13, members of the Vermont State Police arrested an uncle of Breer’s on suspicion of helping the fugitive evade capture, state police say.
Search efforts for Harley Breer, 51, of Marshfield continued throughout the day Sunday, with members of the Vermont State Police checking numerous locations and conducting interviews. Breer was not located and remains at large. State police will continue the investigation throughout the night.
On April 11 at 2:41 pm the Vermont State Police (VSP) were notified of an ATV crash involving 2 ATV’s. 911 advised that a 4 year old was involved. VSP arrived on scene after AmCare transported the child.
On April 8 at about 7 pm, state troopers were notified of multiple 911 calls about a male attempting to take a baby away from a female on the side of the road along VT-109 in Belvidere, police say.
Steven Bourgoin, found guilty of the largest mass criminal homicide in Vermont – the deaths of five high school students in an October, 2016 car crash – had in his bloodstream high concentrations of THC, the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana. His police toxicology report has something in common with the perpetrators of some of the worst mass killings in recent U.S. and world history: he abused marijuana.
The Vermont State Police on Wednesday, April 7 cited Trooper Robert Zink, 39, of Arlington on suspicion of simple assault following a six-week investigation into a use-of-force incident that occurred during an arrest Feb. 23, 2021.
Following an 11-month investigation, the Vermont State Police has cited Mark Schwartz, a former officer with the St. Albans City Police Department, on suspicion of simple assault arising from an on-duty incident in February 2019, state police said yesterday.
The Vermont State Police is investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found inside a vehicle this weekend in the driveway of a private residence in Vershire.
