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Four men from Connecticut and Vermont are facing multiple drug and property-related charges after Vermont State Police stopped a stolen vehicle Tuesday morning on the Exit 6 off ramp of Interstate 91.
According to state police, troopers with the Westminster Barracks spotted a northbound vehicle near mile marker 24.2 at about 10 AM on Nov. 4. After learning the vehicle had been reported stolen, troopers pulled it over at mile marker 35 near the Rockingham exit.
An investigation revealed that the occupants (see above, left to right) — Derrick Wooding, 46, of East Hartford, Conn.; Zakee Habeeb-Ullah, 47, also of East Hartford; Stephen Davidson, 34, of Middletown, Conn.; and Michael Hayes, 63, of St. Johnsbury — were in possession of fentanyl and cocaine, police said.
Davidson was driving the stolen vehicle, while Wooding was the authorized renter who failed to return it to the rental company, according to troopers. All four were cited for trafficking fentanyl, transporting fentanyl, fentanyl possession, trafficking cocaine, cocaine possession, theft of rental property, possession of stolen property, and operating without the owner’s consent.
The men were ordered lodged at Southern State Correctional Facility ahead of their scheduled appearance in Vermont Superior Court, Windham Criminal Division, set for 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 5. Police said bail was set at $10,000, except for Hayes, whose bail was $5,000.