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.
No time like the present to build back the Burlington Police Department from 66 officers to the target roster of 85.
Two schools now facing shooter threats stopped having school resource officers during the last two years.
Before you wave a pistol at someone while driving 100 MPH, make sure it’s not a state trooper in an unmarked police car.
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 young child was hospitalized following an I-89 rollover accident that ejected her and three other people from a pickup truck.
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 […]
Of the 169 use-of-force incidents recorded by VSP in 2021, 10 involved black people – seven of whom were men.
A father shot his son in a turkey hunting accident in Hartford Sunday.
In separate crashes, a pair of Harley Davidson riders died on Franklin County VT roads this weekend.
Photos, video link of unsecured chair flying out of bed of pickup truck on I-89 and striking window of a state police cruiser.
A German shepherd was shot in Tunbridge, and a distracted driver dies from injuries resulting from a crash on I-89.
Two Massachusetts men died after their kayak capsized on cold, choppy Lake Seymour.
An April 15 Vermont State Police press release misidentified an alleged Rutland shoplifter.
Why did a 14-year-old girl collapse in gym class and die shortly thereafter?
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 snowmobile race at Suicide Six turned deadly for one of its racers. And another inmate found dead in a State of Vermont prison cell.
Police are seeking a 53-year-old woman missing from her Searsburg home.
A Lyndonville man’s was found dead in his burning apartment this morning.
Two Manchester girls have been missing since Saturday.
The body found in a Cambridge fire last week has been identified.
A body was found in the aftermath of a fire yesterday in Cambridge. Identity as yet unknown, police say.
A Morrisville man with the user name “IncestKyle” has been sentenced for distributing child pornography.
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.
Too much speed on too much ice propelled a Connecticut snowmobiler facedown into a stream.
A traffic stop for a car registration violation in Barre led to a bust for possession of crack cocaine and fentanyl.
A person has been found shot dead outside a St. Johnsbury hospital.
A Highgate man died in a 30-car crash on I-89 in Milton Friday afternoon.
Police are seeking a woman who they say dragged a state trooper 50 yards after a traffic stop.
Snowmobilers, watch your speed when you’re trying to make those tight turns.
Two 18-year-olds from the Northeast Kingdom are dead after a car crossed the center line and struck their car head-on.
The owner of a Putney garage destroyed by fire in October has rebuilt and reopened the business started by his grandfather in 1967.
Some dangerous old sticks of nitroglycerin could have been someone’s final problem. But the state police bomb squad took are of it.
Two Massachusetts men died last week in Vermont of gunshots to the torso. State police see no link at present.
Winter can be tough on Vermont farm animals.
An Elmore man died in a one-car crash Friday.
A 34-year-old Sheldon man died in a crash yesterday. It happened right in front of an ambulance.
A Sheldon man died while trying to retrieve his truck from a burning garage.
Tinsley the German Shepherd is the first bone-a-fido hero of the New Year.
Police presence to be expected following threats to Williamstown and Canaan schools.
Heather Valyou died after her car struck a tree.
Turns out it was just pot, Brattleboro PD says.
Speeders, beware the LIDAR.
Angry deer hunter David Mohamed and two other men drove up in a pickup truck to Larry Cameron’s house. Moments later shots were fired and both men lay dead.
A mentally ill man attacked his stepfather with a broken piece of glass, then killed himself with it, police say.
Angry calls made to the Vermont Secretary of State’s office after the 2020 election are protected speech.
Two Essex teens caught driving over 90 mph in Ferrisburgh.
An Addison man is dead of an accident/self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A state trooper suffered minor injuries when a car pulled out in front of his vehicle on Rte. 2 in Danville, abruptly ending his pursuit of another car.
A West Haven teen was killed after his Subaru struck a vehicle trying to pass a tractor-trailer on Rte. 22A.
When a Greensboro man intervened on behalf of a Hardwick store clerk, the drunken man denied the purchase of alcohol accosted the Greensboro man at his home – and was shot dead, police say.
Two Burlington City Council Progressives finally saw the light and agreed to hire more cops. Politically incorrect from a cultural Marxist point of view, and maybe ineffective too. Who would want to be a cop in Burlington?
A Northfield, NH woman was last seen walking on the Bolton Valley Resort Access Road on Saturday.
Fire destroyed a service station on Main Street in Putney. Investigators wonder if it’s connected to a trailer fire in the Windham County town a week earlier.
A Maine woman died after a late night car wreck Friday in Sheffield.
Some Vermont schoolkids have graduated from the original Devious Licks to actually licking bathroom appliances.
A pickup truck driver died after the trailer he was pulling went off the road.
An elderly Highgate woman died in a house fire Sunday night. An overloaded power strip started it.
Two young people are dead and a third person is in critical condition following an early morning crash in Berkshire.
The shot by a Rutland cop in McDonald’s August 25 was holding a cellphone. The cop thought it was a weapon.
A two-day standoff ended peacefully last night with the arrest of a Vernon man at his home.
Three Vermont State Troopers are suspected of creating fraudulent Covid-19 vaccination cards, State Police announced at 5:25 today.
A Brooklyn woman and her dog both were found drowned in the Saxtons River in Westminster.
A woman from Brooklyn is missing. She was last seen walking her dog near her Vermont vacation home.
Police shot and killed a 33-year-old man in a Rte. 7, Rutland McDonald’s yesterday.
First responders used drones and dogs to find a missing 11-year-old boy last night in South Pomfret.
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.
A Richmond man died in a fiery crash this morning. Speeding is believed to have been a factor.
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.
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, […]
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.
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 […]
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.
A Marlboro man is in critical condition after being shot Sunday evening.
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.
State Police May 28 received several reports of phone calls purporting to be from the St. Albans Barracks and asking for personal information.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
