The attack was made with a facility-issued tablet computing device and a lock that had been placed inside a sock, according to VSP Detective Trooper Vienna Gildea.
The attack was made with a facility-issued tablet computing device and a lock that had been placed inside a sock, according to VSP Detective Trooper Vienna Gildea.
Hunter Biden faces up to 10 years in prison on the first two counts and five years on the third count. President Joe Biden claims he won’t intervene.
KeepVermontSafe.com tracks the work of law enforcement across Vermont. A recent report focuses on Burlington’s continued struggle to staff the BPD following the 2020 defunding initiative.
Lack of staffing led to Burlington PD almost being overwhelmed last night in a flurry of mayhem.
McLane would order vehicle suspension lift kits valued at $2,300 to $2,900 each and then steal them by selling them on Facebook at substantially discounted prices, the criminal charge notes.
Kajuan Woods, 35, appeared briefly before Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle in federal court late Thursday afternoon
The gun’s owner was trying to comply with the federal no-carry policy.
Second-hand account had teenagers ducking beneath tables in terror following gunfire at Burlington Police Station.
A Burlington Police officer – one of 3 off-duty city employees caught going upwards to 100 miles per hour on motorcycles in a 35-mph zone in St. Albans last fall – pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of negligent operation.
The charges against Ettouzar stem from an investigation into the Malletts Bay shooting that took place on May 26.
Two crash survivors were charged with cocaine distribution.
The trans-justice case against Trump.
Nichole Reynolds, 31, is charged in connection with the international trip to have sex with a minor in August 2022.
Swazye was uninjured but was inside the cockpit hanging from a tree approximately 20 feet from the ground.
The incident began in Burlington when five men were involved in the theft of a 2024 Ford Expedition; at least one of the men brandished a firearm during the incident.
Man with outstanding warrant and criminal history arrested for trying to stab a bartender after a dispute over a mixed drink.
The arrest on drug charges comes after police previously identified and apprehended a suspect in the May 12, 2023 double shooting that left one man dead and another seriously injured.
Hartford standoff; assault at Fairlee beach; crash with DUI and child cruelty charges.
Police credit a local group of anti-litter investigators with solving the ongoing case of littering at a scenic pull-off.
Northfield, 1982. A one-day old baby is found dead in a garbage bag on the side of a road.
If the courts won’t jail violent repeat offenders, can we at least know what they look like?
Bye bye to the federal pen for six years for a Valley Street, Springfield heroin dealer convicted of possession of a pipe bomb.
In what Vermont city did a transient this weekend approach an 82-year-old man at random, knock him unconscious, then get released with a citation by the court hours later?
A Bennington man, who is awaiting a state court trial in a 2019 homicide case, was convicted in Fed. court in Burlington on three gun and drug charges Thursday.
Charbonneau allegedly initiated contact online via Kik messenger with a Hartford investigator posing as a 14-year-old minor and engaged in sexual conversations, attempting to arrange a meeting for sexual acts.
As Judge William Sessions put it, he had “earned his freedom” by leaving the business of drug trafficking entirely and working hard to alter the direction of his life.
The Biden administration used the FACE Act to prosecute her for supposedly blocking access to abortion.
Judge Michael Kainen released a repeat convicted felon to be treated for an eye injury after he pleaded innocent Monday to misdemeanor assault on a protected professional.
Bear hoaxer busted again.Cop tased with his own taser. Uncle, nephew die in homicide-suicide. Cow dies in freeway collision.
Vermont is no stranger to these kinds of attacks – and how it deals with them going forward will be key to its future success in the private and public sectors.
The jury needed just over 3 hours before convicting Dominque “Wop” Troupe, 37, on all four felony charges he faced during the six-day trial.
Kory Lee George, 36, and his mother Angela M. Auclair, 52, formerly of Williston, have been implicated in orchestrating the nighttime ambush killing of David Auclair, 45, of Williston almost five years ago.
Police are looking for the causes of two crashes that took four lives.
The stolen funds were deposited into accounts in the names of individual victims or fictional organizations, such as the ‘Peaceful Protesters Bail Fund,’ ‘BLM New England Trust,’ and ‘Anti-Drumpf League.’”
Upon arrival, troopers found Morrison and Cyr amidst a heated dispute, which reportedly began over the presence of the pigs, which neither man owned or was responsible for.
Scam reports to the Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) totaled 3,212 in 2023. And that’s only the little that was reported.
Tucker E. Jacobs, 27, is named in a criminal complaint filed by ATF based on guns stolen from Wright’s Sports Supply on the night of April 15.
In addition, the assailant was found to be in violation of the curfew and had an active arrest warrant.
Holly Fields Jr., 55, pleaded not guilty in federal court to a charge of operating a drug house in Troy with his daughter and her husband.
Instead of filing two felony criminal charges of careless and negligent driving with death resulting, Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George directed Vermont State Police to issue the teen the civil ticket, records show.
Both state officials were driving to performed their elected duties when arrested for DUI.
Cpl. George Johnson of the St. Johnsbury Police Department writes another interesting incident report.
The state trooper pedaled as fast as he could.
Soghomonian had self-reported to the FBI in Los Angeles that the government had been hacking into his devices and that he also had claimed drones were reading his mind.
A Chelsea man who was 16 when he helped kill two Dartmouth College professors has been granted parole – about a year shy of serving the minimum 25 year sentence. News also of a child sex assault arrest and ‘porch piracy’ in Cambridge.
Hardwick Police Chief Michael Henry said Wednesday morning that nobody was in custody and officers were seeking the shooter.
Concepcion is wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of store clerk Daryus “Swaggy” Clarke at a smoke-shop known as “The Plug” in the Richmond Hills section of Queens, N.Y. in March 2023.
Police seeking the driver of the pickup truck from which a youth was thrown.
Concepcion allegedly shot a man during robbery of a NYC marijuana dispensary. He’s also a person of interest in two Burlington slayings.
For reasons unknown, the TT left its lane and struck the Subaru head-on.
Eww….Someone must have been pretty mad to do that.
When stopped by police last year, Soghomonian had an AK-47 with two loaded magazines, 12 ounces of cannabis, and a book advocating sabotage as a form of climate activism.
Records show Soghomonian, 35, formerly of Northridge, CA, had lived for much of February and March at an inn on Williston Road in South Burlington.
Soghomonian was arrested just before he was scheduled to check out of the the Quality Inn on Shelburne Road in Shelburne.
The report comes to defense of the state by suggesting they were deceived, but still acknowledges more could have been done to protect investors.
Phelps was charged with illegal possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
Accidents and tragedy.
Missing court dates, kicking cops, running from the law, stealing vape pens with a stolen van. And stealing a pride flag.
Eddy Santiago, Jr., a 30-year-old from Clifton, NJ, has been sentenced by US District Judge Christina Reiss for using threats, violence to collect a drug debt.
Police say Perry held people at gunpoint before fleeing the scene in a dark blue Dodge truck. He was nabbed after a high-risk chase.
A Leicester woman and her longtime boyfriend, who was critically wounded when his brother was fatally shot last summer, pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon.
A state’s attorney has been suspended for failing to answer questions about her DUI charge.
A confrontation ensued between Suggs and the occupants, leading to Suggs being overpowered and detained until law enforcement arrived.
In the past month alone, two separate incidents have been reported by Burlington residents who stumbled upon these invasive trackers on their cars.
Anti-Israel graffiti. A voyeur at Jay Peak. Catalytic converter suspect dies before trial. Police Welfare check on chronic suicide threatener goes bad for checkers and checkee.
Drunk, spitting on and headbutting cops after (again) refusing to leave, police say.
Banyai was a passenger in a car stopped for speeding by the town constable. An altercation ensued.
No tip is too small, the FBI said of the 20-year-old cold case.
Two attempted murders in Burlington: one by car, another by gunfire. Suspects are in custody.
The crash forced the post office to close its doors for the day as maintenance workers swiftly boarded up the damaged front section on Monday.
It was unclear why Blatt, 32, was free in the community. Since 2010, Blatt has amassed at least 20 adult criminal convictions, mostly felonies.
State police and feds outline ‘new resources’ to be used on the 20-year-old missing person case.
Drugs, child porn, and convenience store trespass.
A masked bandit got away after perpetrating the fifth bank robbery in Northwestern Vermont in two weeks.
Cirill Brown pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and a felony charge of burglary.
Snowmobiler dies in Town of Washington. Doctor pleads innocent to child sex charge. Former state trooper gets another theft charge. Woman sentenced for Covid-era paycheck protection fraud.
Gumrukcu asked Eratay before the summer of 2017 to help find a hitman, the plea agreement said. Gumrukcu wired about $300,000 to two bank accounts controlled by Eratay.
The Underhill man will face charges in a Washington County courthouse today.
The police cruiser crashed into a stopped fire truck on I-89.
Two young woman died Saturday afternoon after their car left I-91 and struck a tree.
She’s been gone since March 1.
Two men shot at a passing car, in what police say may be connected with harassment last month.
Bethune now faces serious charges, including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
Big embezzlement in Rutland and hit-and-run fatality in South Burlington.
The children are believed to be with their biological father, who police say may be armed and dangerous.
Legislators are discussing a new bill that would prohibit the blame of sexual assault survivors for their assault as a legal defense in civil cases.
Paintball vandals. Barre man arrested for Bradford traffic disturbance. And border cops and state police collaborate on a bust.
A 15-year-old Maine native now living in Springfield, MA has been charged with felony second-degree murder for a shooting in St. Johnsbury.
A woman who dragged and injured a police officer with her car served four months after her sentence last November. Now she’s free.
The woman’s mother reported her missing. Hours later her body was found in woods in the small town of Washington.
The Bennington lawmaker won’t be contesting the charge, a spokesperson for House Democrats said.
In addition to a shotgun, law enforcement said they also found methamphetamine, brass knuckles, a knife and ammunition, including a 30-round AR-15 magazine and 103 rounds for the shotgun. Open beer cans also were found in the Jeep.
Montpelier Police tried unsuccessfully to get Sicely to surrender during the day. Later the State Police Crisis Negotiators also made a try, but he still refused to budge. State Police eventually deployed a form of tear gas and Sicely surrendered.
The Ukrainian mastermind behind the devastating 2020 ransomware attack on Vermont’s largest hospital has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court.
A towing company was taken for a ride by its former bookkeeper. She’s escaped prison because the owner just wants his money back.
Major’s statement clearly was rude and crude. Both what he said and how he said it offended the council and his employers. But – was he wrong?
“One of the more serious child pornography cases in Vermont in recent years” involved a man (now seeking to become a woman) who filmed his rape of little girls.
“I arrived on scene and found people on the ground engaging in a physical altercation with each other. I stopped the altercations.” – Cpl. George Johnson
Fentanyl, coke, cash seized in raid. Fatal snowmobile crash. Truck hits covered bridge. Guns stolen from cars. Gunfire along Thetford highway near childcare center and pediatrician’s office.
Lt. Owen Ballinger, a 25-year state police veteran, was quietly moved to headquarters in Waterbury as of Jan. 14 and is now listed as the administrative services coordinator.