Angel Elias Estremera, 26, also possessed five other firearms unlawfully that were unknown to law enforcement when they conducted a court-ordered search at his Derby Line residence late last month, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in federal court papers.
Court releases again; Business owner blasts Burlington
David A. Zapata, 32, who is wanted in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was later linked to more than 5 ounces of fentanyl found in a bag in an apartment at 33 Ethan Allen Ave. that he had been using recently, officials said.
A wanted Rhode Island fugitive, who assaulted five U.S. Border Patrol Agents in the Northeast Kingdom with an unregistered machine gun last year, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to four felony gun charges.
The stated aim of The Spark is to “curb domestic violence.” As the program expands, a critical question for policymakers and the public will be how to measure its effectiveness.
She and colleague named in murder warrants in Los Angeles
A Chittenden County man has pleaded not guilty to four federal charges, including selling fentanyl within 1,000 feet of two South Burlington schools and with providing the drugs that killed one person and seriously injured another. Aldrain “Corleone” Ashby, 40, formerly of Waterbury, was ordered held Monday afternoon as a danger to the community and a risk to flee.
Phil Scott’s 14-point Burlington plan repeats the same mistake Vermont has made for years: mistaking compassion for policy.
A drug possession charge was added at arraignment when the police search uncovered more than 13 grams, including packaging of crack cocaine in his bedroom, records show.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has given federal prosecutors in Vermont the green light to seek the death penalty for a Burlington man, who authorities say fatally shot two out-of-state drug dealers in the Northeast Kingdom two years ago.
Morgan reportedly live-streamed sexually explicit conduct of a minor child, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua L. Banker.
Charged with bringing 9 more aliens this week into Jay
Federal authorities say a Mexican, who was charged in state court with attempted murder and aggravated domestic assault in a strangulation case involving a woman in Addison County in September, is an illegal immigrant and should never have been in the United States.
Charged with crack cocaine at Burlington City Hall Park
What makes these calls convincing is the use of real data — names, addresses, or partial account numbers — pulled from earlier data breaches or public records. Caller ID spoofing adds another layer of deception by displaying a familiar or official-looking number.
Two hours of deliberation were all the Orleans County jury needed to sentence Cedano for the 2019 crime.
A man cited October 3 in connection with a lawnmower theft in Highgate was arrested again last week after allegedly violating court conditions 30 times tied to numerous prior charges and probation cases. This time, he was jailed on $2000 bail.
Seeking longer prison term in upcoming sentencing in fentanyl and crack case
The company waited 320 days—nearly 11 months—to warn victims.
Todd S. Popovitch, 44, of West Rutland. He also received a concurrent four-year prison sentence in U.S. District Court in Burlington for possession of a World War II submachine gun that was not registered under the National Firearms Act.
A Milton firefighter pulled the seriously injured driver out of his burning pickup truck after it crossed into the oncoming Lane and struck a car driven by a woman who died in the crash.
A Barton man who fired multiple shots through a neighbor’s home where a toddler was present received a deferred sentence after pleading guilty to assault charges.
Police say Badeau set up shop in Decker Towers and sold crack in City Hall Park. Like many recent Burlington drug arrests, he has a criminal history in the Philadelphia PA area.
Tovi Rose Mesick, formerly known as Christopher M. Mesick, claimed self-defense when Stephen Furtado, now 47, was shot inside his residence at the Salmon Run Apartments on Riverside Avenue in Burlington in February 2023.
The Friday the 13th video begins with Hendry following Gray into a Portland St. apartment building to investigate a report of domestic assault by Mason on his wife.
Fifth defendant picked up on indictment
A Barre resident from India will continue to be held behind bars as his criminal case for reportedly lying during an attempt to buy a semiautomatic pistol at a Washington County firearms shop plays out in federal court.
One accomplice in Danville homicide ordered to serve over 9 years
Burlington Police Officer Brady McGee was identified as the police officer involved in a shooting that injured a city man on Sunday, Vermont State Police said this afternoon. State police also confirmed in the news release that Aaron Loucks, 32, of Burlington was the wounded man. Vermont News First had reported on Monday that Loucks had been shot the night before.
“Brattleboro officers received a report of a physical altercation in the area of Elliot Street which possibly involved a firearm. Brattleboro police responded with multiple officers and began investigating and were able to locate two males known to be involved in the incident. One victim reported he was struck with a taser and pepper spray….”
Humility, integrity, community, and family were common themes throughout the morning ceremony.
The platforms most commonly cited include Discord, Telegram, Roblox, and Minecraft, though experts caution that the group can surface on any platform where children can interact online.
Hartamal Singh, 34, of West Street appeared in U.S. District Court in Burlington late Thursday for a federal criminal complaint for making false statements about his immigration status during the attempted purchase of the Ruger at R & L Archery on Smith Street in Barre on Oct. 12, 2023, the ATF reported.
Vermont woman arrested for providing base of operations
The cartel’s devastating impact isn’t measured by arrests, but by the ever-climbing number of overdoses in every corner of the Green Mountains.
“Freedom and democracy are not about political violence,” said Sanders. “It is not about assassinating public officials. It is not about trying to intimidate people who speak out on an issue. Political violence, in fact, is political cowardice. It means that you cannot convince people of the correctness of your ideas, and you have to impose them through force. Every American, no matter what one’s political point of view may be, must condemn all forms of political violence and all forms of intimidation.”
Ellen E. Willson, 38, of Federal Street may have been impaired, according to three new state police affidavits filed Wednesday as part of the never-ending investigation.
If certainty of punishment is zero, then the associated fear is also zero. Assaults on police officers, or other members of the community, inevitably become more prevalent.
Bland, son of prominent lawyer, shared Morrisville drug den with victims
None of this means most people who identify as transgender pose a violent threat, nor that activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign are intentionally inspiring people to commit violence. However, the violent trend raises serious questions about the unintended consequences of transgender activists’ rhetoric.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, flanked by federal prosecutors, including Acting U.S. Attorney Michael P. Drescher of Vermont, outlined on Thursday several recent significant efforts to combat human trafficking and smuggling along the international borders, including an important felony indictment in the Green Mountain State.
If you live in Vermont, and your information was compromised in this breach, you should have received a formal letter in the mail from TeamstersCare.
Previous rulings by judges had kept Lackie, who has a lengthy criminal record, jailed. The stabbing victim’s wife testified she would feel unsafe if he was released.
The beating stemmed from a report – that proved false — that Kastner earlier had struck Taylor’s mother, Katie Bollman, over a $400 dispute and the Aug. 11th incident was retaliation.
A New York man and a South Burlington teen are being held without bail at the Vermont Department of Corrections.
Bushway told officers the pain was “a ten out of ten” before losing his vision.
Abdiaziz “Drill” Abdhikadir was sentenced to 5-7 years, with credit for time served, for shooting in 2022 into an apartment occupied by the family of a man he allegedly murdered five months later.
Cypher Aiken, listed as age 25 by Newport police, was charged with domestic terrorism and threatening a civilian population with mass destruction and mass killings, according to Chief Travis Bingham.
Quick list of criminal justice laws passed by Montpelier this year.
John “Fluffy” Lapan, 41, of St. Albans appeared in U.S. District Court on Monday afternoon for a federal criminal complaint that he was involved in three controlled drug purchases in February, according to an affidavit from the St. Albans City Police.
Meanwhile, Jonathan J. Letourneau, 36, also of St. Albans is named in a separate criminal complaint for a charge of knowingly and intentionally distributing crack cocaine in Franklin County in January, records show. He is due in federal court later.
Ten days after his death, Scott Kastner, 42, was identified Tuesday as the man that died following a vicious beating at Burlington City Hall Park, city police said.
Now Feds have him in custody, court says
Why it was dropped remains unanswered. But the numbers are clear: Vermont courts leaned on Condition 3 the hardest in the very year before it was eliminated, and now the one safeguard Vermonters assumed was non-negotiable is gone.
Valley Street is a frequent crime scene in Springfield, which in recent years has had a particularly intense drug abuse and trafficking problem.
Drew pled guilty in 2021 to a firearms charge that carried a maximum sentence of 10 years.
‘I think it’s easy to blame others when some of your strategies are failing,” Scott said when asked if Mulvaney-Stanak is blame-shifting.
Police said the case began at about 3:50 a.m., when a 911 caller reported a disturbance at a home on Verna Court, off VA Cutoff Road. Responding Hartford officers found one victim deceased at the scene and a second suffering injuries described as non-life-threatening.
Troopers recovered the knife and a silent-alarm pendant that had been forcibly removed from one of the employees during the robbery.
The three youths, believed to be roughly 14 to 16 years old, are facing proceedings in Vermont Family Court. Consequences are limited due to the lack of rehabilitation services for youthful offenders within Vermont.
Vermont State Police responded to a string of serious incidents across the state this past weekend, ranging from a fugitive arrest at the Canadian border to an animal cruelty case in Royalton and a fatal crash in Lowell.
Sara Beth Austin, 48, appeared in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Friday afternoon on a criminal complaint that she operated the drug home on Vermont 22A in the town of Addison during the month of August, according to U.S. Homeland Security Investigations.
The investigation determined a large disturbance broke out on College Street near City Hall Park before an individual removed what appeared to be a rifle from his pants, Detective Lt. Mike Beliveau said. The armed individual struck the victim in the head with the rifle and then fired a single round into the air, Beliveau said.
Thomas “T.J.” Blaise, 44, was found with nearly one pound of cocaine following a motor vehicle stop by Vergennes City Police on Tuesday night, records show. A digital scale was found under the driver’s seat, along with a large amount of currency loose inside a bag and more concealed in a sock, HSI said.
Police were called to the Green Acres housing complex on Bergeron Street after an Uber driver reported driving an individual from Springfield, Massachusetts to Barre — only to be stiffed for the fare.
One new count charges Youngblut “with malice aforethought, unlawfully killed” Maland by shooting him while he was engaged in the performance of his duties. The second new charge maintains Youngblut carried a firearm during a crime of violence – the murder alleged in count one of the new indictments. She used a Glock model 23 .40-caliber pistol, the indictment said. One of the previous charges has been amended to say that Youngblut actually shot at two Border Patrol Agents that were with Maland. The new indictment identified them only by the initials “J.M” and “D.W.”
A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily block the imminent deportation of an immigrant from Vietnam, who officials say is dangerous and was wounded during a shooting in April in Burlington.
ATF links him to unsolved double homicide in Burlington
Some reports have suggested a possible link between Fleming’s case and a high-profile double homicide in Arkansas. The VSP says there’s no evidence connecting the two cases, but they’re following their usual process to explore every possible lead.
Authorities believe Edwards is a high risk future offender.
Peter Baez, 41, of Northfield pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington Thursday afternoon to a two-count federal indictment obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The charge stems from an investigation into allegations that Bogie assaulted a girl multiple times between 2004 and 2007, beginning when she was 10 years old.
A former registered nurse, who admitted he allowed his Rutland residence to be used for unlawfully manufacturing, storing, distributing and using crack cocaine, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. And there are more legal problems coming for Daniel McSwiggan, 52, of Rutland, Vermont.
Artemio Cordova Mendez, 36, and Alejandro Monfil Carbello, 40, have both been previously removed for being unlawfully in the United States, but each man returned without permission, according to Homeland Security Investigations.
Rahm Klampert, 45, of Hartford, who offers personal training workouts, pleaded innocent to the one-count felony indictment last week.
And if we’re serious about public safety, criminal justice reform, and race relations, then we need to be honest about what the numbers show — even when they don’t conform to political narratives.
Tulloch is serving two life sentences after pleading guilty to murdering Haf and Susanne Zantop in Hanover in 2001. He was 17 at the time of the killings.
“This isn’t a one-time mistake. This is 11 years of chaos — while our system looked the other way.”
Still to be sentenced is the leader of the drug trafficking conspiracy, Dominique Troupe, 37, of Colchester, who was convicted in May 2024 by a federal court jury in Rutland on four felony charges. He is known by the street names “Whop” and “Juice.”
Critic blames crackdown on hunting bears with dogs
Former suburban Chittenden County Chief will lead law enforcement on a Montana Indian reservation.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents arrested Freddy J. Rodriguez, 40, of West Warwick, R.I. with 10 kilograms of heroin on Sept. 19, 2023 as he prepared a nighttime load in a kayak to head north from Highgate on Lake Champlain to meet another vessel coming south from Canada.
McElroy pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Lamoille County Superior Court earlier this year, with proceedings ongoing but no trial date publicly announced as of now.
Recent break-ins and burglaries have underscored the value of security and proactive safety measures for businesses across the Green Mountain State.
Larry L. Lanpher Jr., who also was critically wounded when his brother was killed in the Leicester shooting on June 4, 2023, was sentenced for conspiracy to knowingly and intentionally distribute both crack and powder cocaine between January 2023 and August 2023 in Vermont and elsewhere.
The gun-toting woman that is accused as part of the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent in the Northeast Kingdom in January will not get a six-month extension for her defense team to try to block consideration of the death penalty in her case.
The incident came as Vermont Superior Court Judge Justin Jiron had ordered Myott released back to the community instead of admitting him to an inpatient psychiatric care facility for a mental health evaluation, records show.
Jose Armando Lopez Moreno, 22, of Panton was ordered held for lack of $5,000 bail. He also denied a misdemeanor count of simple assault by striking the victim in the head with a bottle.
Marcos Diaz Lopez, 23, also of Panton had to be airlifted to the UVM Medical Center in Burlington following the incident on Jersey Street in Panton about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.
The federal judiciary has run out of money to pay for defense lawyers assigned to represent criminal defendants in Vermont.
Vermont pours millions into treatment programs to combat the opioid epidemic while lawmakers lock away 15% of opioid settlement funds from a tool that could stem the tide: drug trafficking enforcement
A police report was filed shortly after the incident. Authorities are now seeking any information the public may have regarding the event.
Lyndonville police seek person in connection with Memorial Drive retail theft; Woman arrested on domestic assault charge in St. Johnsbury; Driver arrested on Interstate 91 for second DUI offense in Lyndon
Every year, thousands of people disappear while attempting to cross borders or while living without legal documentation in the United States. These disappearances represent more than statistics—they are families torn apart, communities left searching for answers, and lives lost to a system that often fails to protect the most vulnerable.
According to police, 38-year-old Jennifer Lee of Winooski was driving north on Route 128 in a 2023 Toyota RAV4 when her vehicle crossed the center line into the southbound lane. Lee’s vehicle then struck a 2013 Hyundai Tucson driven by 58-year-old Gretchen Woerner of Milton, who was traveling south.
Dezhong Jiang, 58, of Flushing, N.Y. was driving south in the northbound lane and nearly caused at least one head-on crash before state police got him stopped in Royalton near the exit 3 interchange about 2 a.m. Sunday, police said.
While turning onto the westbound on-ramp for U.S. 4 at the exit 2 interchange, the unidentified driver lost control of the Silverado and collided at a slow speed with the black police cruiser with a full blue light package, Acting State Police Lt. Todd Wilkins said.
Vermont State Police arrested Erik Fulton, 37, of Royalton, on charges of domestic violence after an incident that started Wednesday night, and ended early Thursday, when police’s special tactical team was called in.
Bear Mountain Road in North Troy is known for both human and drug smuggling almost on a daily basis.
The indictment, returned on February 20, charges the defendants with participation in a sophisticated “Grandparent Scam” that spanned more than 40 states, including Vermont, and targeted elderly victims with false claims that a loved one was jailed and in urgent need of bail money.
The defendant, the nephew of state judge Justin Jiron, admitted he conspired with Theodore “Theo” Bland, 29, of Burlington, who gunned down two people and then concealed evidence about the double homicide in Lowell on Oct. 12, 2023.
Daigle died from asphyxiation due to compression of the neck, the medical examiner said.
