A suspected member of the violent street gang known as The Bloods, has been arrested on federal charges of selling cocaine and conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in Chittenden County
Reported NYC Gang member busted in Vermont in drug case
Hinesburg school administrator wouldn’t let police search playground area where gun was found
School officials were concerned the cops would scare or disturb the kindergarteners. A 35 gram bag of cocaine was found there after the police chief insisted on the search.
OD rise in drug-legal Oregon forewarns Vermonters about opioid decrim bills
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.
MacDonald: Oregon legalized hard drugs and it went about as well as you’d expect
As expected, things quickly went sideways. In the first year, overdose deaths rose 200 percent.
Police: high on cocaine, Hartford man shoots another in the chest
A Hartford man intoxicated with crack cocaine shot another man in the chest last week, police say.
DEA busts two Connecticut men in Hardwick
One suspect rented from high-end Airbnbs in Stowe to help facilitate his drug trafficking for more than a year.
Synthetic ‘Tranq’ disfigures, kills VT opioid users
There was a time when we couldn’t have pictured things being worse than heroin. Then we couldn’t picture things being worse than fentanyl. Now we can’t picture things being worse than xylazine. It keeps escalating.
New Yorker pleads innocent to running drug ring in Burlington
A New York City man, who authorities said set up a major drug distribution business from a Burlington apartment house, pleaded innocent in Vermont court Thursday.
Frustration with Burlington shootings, theft boils over online
@pnshdvermonster wrote in apparent sarcasm, “Stop fear-mongering. Burlington is perfectly safe. These clearly have nothing to do with the rampant drug use and unhoused immigrants.”
LaMarche: As Walgreens leaves, Burlington City Council “gets tough on drugs”
Perhaps the council will now act proactively and appropriately. Or maybe it’s too late and this has all become terminal.
