A serious case of road rage happened Tuesday on I-89 and a state highway in Fairfax.
A serious case of road rage happened Tuesday on I-89 and a state highway in Fairfax.
An accused child rapist was released on $200 bail after his third violation of conditions hearing Wednesday.
Michael A. Gonzalez, 34, fraudulently obtained the five Teslas valued at about $607,000 from car dealerships in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Florida.
Police hope a sketch of the suspect will help locate the killer of Honoree Fleming.
Avery Buchman, 64, of Brighton, is accused of possession of destructive devices, possession and use of explosives, burglary, possession of stolen property, and unlawful mischief.
Police are seeking two young people who reportedly stole a car in Vershire and stopped at a convenience store in Waterbury.
Police say Rampone did not notice the flashing railroad signals or Buskey with enough time to stop.
Fleming was found deceased at 4:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, the Chief Medical Examiner later determined the cause of her death was gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death homicide.
Police are looking for the white male who they say shot a 77-year-old retired college dean in Castleton.
Both men were arrested on multiple counts of distribution of both more and less than 2.5 kilograms.
An Addison County woman now twice found guilty of defrauding federal programs filed a secret motion to delay her imprisonment. Vermont News First protested.
As of late this morning, police were still seeking the male suspect in the killing of a woman on a Castleton trail.
State police last week ensured the safety of Twinfield school children following a school shooting threat, Keep Vermont Safe reports.
Shane Phillips, 43, of Johnson, was initially cited for “deer jacking.” The citation followed an after-dark field operation by game wardens in October 2020 at multiple locations in Johnson.
The defendant had wanted to reunite again in the U.S. with his wife, Sarah Jones Larkin, who was due to have their first child late last week, records show.
An elderly long-distance runner who collided with a passing trailer has lost his legal efforts to collect money for injuries received in the accident five years in Grand Isle County.
Supporters of banning traffic stops for minor offenses say police officer discretion “combines with a long history of negative racial stereotypes in which African American and Latinx people are portrayed as more criminal and dangerous than white Americans.”
Ciro Temich-Ramirez, 35, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Tuesday afternoon to face the two felony counts.
The man who police say kidnapped a woman and threatened to pour gas on her and light her on fire is on the loose, whereabouts unknown.
A reckless ‘gang’ of 15-20 motorcyclists terrified motorists in rural Morgan Saturday. With one exception, there were no police nearby to stop them.
After approaching officers with a brick, a suspected stalker with 17 recent police interactions injured a Burlington cop, was arrested – and then released by a judge.
Charged in federal court, an alleged kayaking cocaine dealer would get a minimum five-year sentence if found guilty.
A fatal motorcycle accident, and a reckless driver who almost struck kids getting off a school bus.
Busts armed robbery, child sex assault, and possession of large capacity ammunition magazine.
Police say a North Pownal man sexually assaulted a child, was released on bail, violated conditions by approaching the child’s home, and was released again by a judge in Bennington County.
See what happens – too often – when tall trucks try to cross Vermont covered bridges.
While the feds sentence fentanyl dealers to years in prison, some Vermont judges no fines and no new time. Meanwhile fences are built around courthouses to stop incessant drug activity.
Good Samaritans and police together rescued a pair of Lake Willoughby kayakers in distress.
Neither crime nor the police took the weekend off.
At the rate that young adults are dying from overdose, being incarcerated, and ending up in recovery centers, do you need to ask, where are the young people?
Troopers are investigating all possibilities in this incident, including Pepper’s claim it was an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Dennis is charged with the second-degree murder of a Springfield, MA man in what police say was a drug-related shooting.
Freddy Rodriguez, of Rhode Island. was found with more than 12 kilograms of cocaine as he prepared a nighttime load for a kayak to head north from Highgate to meet another vessel coming from Canada.
The altercation ended with an arrest.
As the stolen Subaru caught fire, Tatro resisted efforts to be removed. Then Officer Emily Fitzpatrick deployed her Taser, Colchester police say.
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Jailed for felony shoplifting. Sentenced for possession ‘ghost gun’ ammo. Sentenced for meth dealing.
The situation unfolded when Kilbreth got into a physical altercation with another woman who also lived in the neighborhood.
“While it can be frustrating to witness injustice or experience wrongdoing, it is important to remember that there are legal systems and authorities in place to handle these situations,” the Berlin Police Department says.
An alleged fentanyl dealer and an alleged ski resort burglar were both released on citation to appear in court. A man who shot at another man was jailed pending his (prompt) court appearance.
Bottom line: We need statesmen, not politicians.
The vehicle is described as a dark blue SUV. The person involved is described as a dark-skinned male in his 30’s, between 5’9” and 5’11” tall, with a medium build.
Police say DeThomas sold fentanyl and/or cocaine on multiple occasions in and around Springfield, Vermont, during the spring and summer of 2023.
Police say Nichols became unresponsive in the booking area at the facility at about 6:32 a.m. Sunday.
Two Montpelier police officers were on regular patrol when they saw the couple engaged in a sex act in plain view of passing vehicles and foot traffic in a public space.
The 40-time felon who reportedly told a store security officer “Dude, I’ll blow your head off” now finds himself in the federal court system.
Burlington armed robbery suspect Eric Edson fled police by bicycle, sailboat, kayak, dump truck, and tractor – to no avail.
Ella Mae Woods, 75, developed a scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration for 28 years and to have her dead mother’s benefits wired to a joint account at the TD Bank in Brattleboro Vermont from the U.S. Treasury, the two-count indictment said.
Robbie Mafuta’s hospital psychiatrist thought his paranoid schizophrenia might have been caused by heavy use of high-potency marijuana.
Trying to clear the highway, a Vergennes man sustained life-threatening injuries.
Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a man they say was involved in an armed robbery and pursuit in Burlington last week.
Mom pulled the trigger on the fusillade of shots that killed her husband, an accused murderer says.
The Subaru, driven by a 16-year-old, veered into the breakdown lane and struck the 89-year-old man.
Christopher Ellis had been staying with the Garvins since April. Then he shot them both and fled in the son’s truck, police charge.
There were 521 assault incidents against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in fiscal year 2022 and 386 in the first ten months of 2023.
State police received a call reporting that Shawn Bair, 32, of Richford, had informed the caller that a family member recently died of natural causes, and Bair had buried the relative in the back yard of his home on Intervale Avenue.
Judge Alison Arms rejected a plea agreement for two years in prison after reading what one victim said about Normandin: “He destroyed my life.”
Morristown has been hit with a crime wave this summer, and police say Steven Royce is right in the middle of it.
With injured people in his car, the driver tried to flee – unsuccessfully.
A man with a violent crime arrest record attempted two carjackings in Willliston yesterday, one just down the street from the local police department.
A pizzeria owner spent $660,000 in federal ‘paycheck protection’ money to buy an alpaca farm. But (to quote JO editor Alex de Nuti-Biasi), “The alPPPacas did nothing wrong.”
Bradford city leaders have been meeting for weeks about the growing violent and property crime, much although not necessarily all of it feared to be stemming from an influx of transients.
A brother of a murder victim is expressing frustration that VT State Attorney Sarah George is allowing Gregory Fitzgerald, convicted murderer of his sister, to go free after receiving life w/o parole
Homeless man responsible for Bradford burglaries, local police say.
Police say a pickup truck bearing a ‘Trump for America’ decal was set afire and abandoned in a remote part of Topsham.
A Marine vet, Andrew Jensen has spent every year of his state police career in the Derby barracks.
A pair of out-of-staters, who police have linked to unrelated homicides in Vermont in recent months, were ordered held without bail following their appearances in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.
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An arrest warrant on a charge of second-degree murder has been issued for Elias J. Lopez, 18, of Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently in custody at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans.
When a toddler was lost in the woods, police turned to dogs and a aerial drone.
Big city drug gangs are sending teenaged dealers to Vermont, knowing the state’s laws will treat them more leniently than adults.
Pursuing a lead on a fradulent purchase of power tools at a store in Derby, state police found a large stash of drugs – but not the suspected dealer.
Most drivers arrested for DUI at least have all four tires on their vehicles.
Gets 87 months in federal after nabbed in South Boston sting.
They became lovers when she was a prison guard and he was an inmate – a violation of state law.
A swift water rescue team was stationed at the Morrisville Fire Department. During the overnight hours, someone vandalized their equipment trailer in an attempt to gain access to the equipment inside.
A collision in Warren Monday night killed two men. Yesterday, police identified the second victim.
Police are investigating the unrelated deaths of two Vermonters.
Hunter Biden’s appointed special counsel called a ‘clear violation,’ ‘illegal’; NIH royalty payments raise questions about Fauci testimony, show Wuhan lab ties
A falling pickup truck, two fatal car accidents, and a motorcycle-deer collision highlight Vermont traffic accident news.
Two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose. One pound, equivalent to 453,592.4 milligrams, is enough to kill 226,796 people. Twenty-two thousand pounds is enough to kill nearly 5 billion.
Roy’s Vermont rap sheet goes back six years.
Lydia Vorsteveld, a nurse at Porter Hospital, was swimming in Arnold Bay when she was struck by a vessel under motion operated by Gerard Vorsteveld of Panton.
Coolidge admitted at the police station he was a “member” of a dark web site that he called the “Boy’s Club,” police say.
Hard as it is to say, both Biden and Trump are entitled to presumptions of innocence even though neither deserve them. If one or the other of them should be exonerated, it doesn’t make the other one any less guilty.
The embattled Grismore remains under fire on at least three fronts for an Aug. 7, 2022 incident in which he was caught on video using his foot to kick or — depending on your perspective — shove the lower abdomen of an intoxicated, shackled prisoner at the sheriff’s office.
St. Johnsbury Police Department Corporal George Johnson’s press releases depart from the canned style taught at the Dragnet Joe Friday School of Cop Speak.
A 21-year-old South Burlington man has been charged with the second-degree murder of a 55-year-old prison cellmate.
Driver struck a high-tension power line with a metal ladder, causing an electric shock and a fall of 25-30 feet off the roof.
Girard allegedly made video recordings in the bathroom of a gymnastics academy.
“Today, following this criminal justice intervention, her pattern of drug use and criminal conduct has ceased,” a federal prosecutor said of former kingpin Melissa George.
Wayne Payton, 50, of Danville.was killed by a shot to the head.
In addition to the two fatal crashes, the weekend saw a wrecked state police cruiser and a speeding VW escape police pursuit.
The Trump 2024 campaign hopes his supporters will stop by the Champlain Valley Fair booth and sign a petition to place the former president on the 2024 Vermont primary ballot.
Cause of death: hypothermia. Manner of death: accidental, for a Middlebury teenager who reports say often wandered away.
A 16-year-old partied with alcohol and maybe drugs, then drove off in a car. He died in a crash, and the adults who allegedly provided the alcohol have been charged.
It’s not known yet why an SUV veered off a street in Sanford, Maine and killed a Jericho man and his grandson at a summer home.
Homeland Security raided the home of John J. Grandizio to arrest him for attempting to receive firearms illegally from parties in China.
A teenager who was high on crack cocaine shot his best friend in the head in 2021. A judge gave him a stiffer-than-usual sentence due to the recklessness of the act.
Police are offering cash rewards for information about a string of arsons in Waterbury.