Understanding Vermont’s overdose crisis: what the 2025 social autopsy reveals

Franklin County man denies six felony charges.

Inside the home, officers reported finding evidence for the sale, manufacture, and possession of fentanyl, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine. A firearm and ammunition were also seized.

Davidson was driving the stolen vehicle, while Wooding was the authorized renter who failed to return it to the rental company, according to troopers.

Despite allegedly being found in possession of 40 bags of hard drugs, the couple was clearly only mildly concerned.

Supporters of the Burlington safe injection site pilot program approved by the Legislature last year over Gov. Phil Scott’s veto pointed to the NYC facility as a success story.

100+ Vermonters a month die from opioid related fatality 

A storage company analyzed the rates of substance abuse across the country by using data from the CDC, SAMHSA and the United States Census Bureau.

Police say the relationship lasted for nearly two years where Stevens allegedly sexually assaulted and was cruel to the child.

Two high-profile and dangerous inmates were seriously overcome and had to be rushed by AmCare Ambulances and correctional guards to Northwest Medical Center in St. Albans.

The shooting may be the latest in the ongoing connection of illegal activities — drugs and/or guns — flowing between Rutland and Springfield, Mass. area, officials said.

The new indictment against Bland includes a charge of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and a charge of using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime and discharging that firearm during the offense last October.

The youths’ alleged involvement in the shootings is the latest instance of young OOS drug traffickers on either end of the fatal gunshot.

Vermont prohibited vaping sales to minors, then reaped $400K from Amazon for its failure to stop third-party vendors.

Rowell would take trips to New York City to refresh the drug supply for the Bennington-based organization, authorities say.

Vermont Game Warden Dustin Snyder and his K-9, Fletch, found the body of Solomon on the evening of Oct. 2.  As police combed the area the next day, Morristown Police Detective Lt. Todd Baxter located the body of White nearly a mile farther into the woods.

Maine’s Somerset County sheriff, Dale P. Lancaster, was discouraged by the number of inmates who would leave prison and die from overdoses.

VSP’s investigation determined the homicide was related to a illegal drug trafficking dispute.

A judge in 2022 imposed a suspended sentence after the career criminal reported he was prepared to turn his life around and work with youth to keep them out of trouble. Less than four months later he was charged with a break-in.

Drug crime – trafficking and drug use itself, dealers’ violence, desperate customers committing property crimes – is up. Police hiring is still down.

Gillespie’s sentencing follows a particularly brutal incident that occurred on September 28, 2022, at a Walgreens parking lot in Burlington.

“We’ve had people from New York City and Massachusetts living in there with the woman for months, gang members, all these people. So many drugs. It’s not any secret,” a neighbor of Gras said.

Richards claimed he has brokered crack cocaine from big drug dealers in return for guns destined for out-of-state.

Upon arrival, officers were informed that one of the males had a rifle and had potentially retreated to the basement, while another group of males were reported to be hiding in a stairwell upstairs.

The police investigation indicates this was an isolated incident that arose from a drug-related dispute.

The murder victim, a member of a well-known local family, was associated with drug traffickers. Her bullet-riddled body was found stuffed in a metal can on the Missisquoi River.

Kayla Wright had been associating with Keith, who also uses the name “Anthony Borrow,” and others at the house, Labor said. 

Investigation showed Kayla Wright, 29, of Derby, was shot multiple times, and at least one shot struck her in the head, killing her.

The homicide on Danby Mountain Road arose from a dispute among a group of people regarding drug trafficking and stolen firearms.

Three Massachusetts men – one just a teen – were shot to death in two separate incidents. Police have made two arrests and are holding a former Stowe man as a ‘person of interest.’

Hassanah “Ma” Delia, 37, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday to a felony charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and fentanyl in Vermont and elsewhere in July and August 2023. 

The current candidates for mayor of the Queen City are already being challenged to come up with tangible solutions to the growing drug use crisis.

A Hartford man intoxicated with crack cocaine shot another man in the chest last week, police say.

Bouchard was present when Scott Lanpher, 35, of Leicester was gunned down, authorities say.

Josue Cordero, 32, and Carlos Inostroza, 30, both of Springfield, MA were taken into custody and lodged in lieu of $25,000 bail each.

In August 2019, both Sierra and Fuentes were arrested along with a third Springfield MA resident, Luis Martinez, on charges of trafficking fentanyl into the state.

Released by a Vermont judge on minimal bail, two accused St. J drug dealers went home to Connecticut and shot store clerks, police say. A woman 22 months pregnant survived. Another clerk didn’t.

Each state has been allocated a percentage of the settlement funds based on opioid deaths, the number of people with opioid use disorder, the amount of state opioid sales, and population.

Four people seeking to steal drugs are charged in the December first-degree murder of a St. Johnsbury man.

One crack dealer tried to rob another crack dealer. As a result, one of them died, and the other faces a possible life sentence.

A former basketball star and longtime drug addict was arrested for criminal threatening in West Rutland.