UPDATE: Charges dropped, records sealed
EDITOR’s NOTE: In January, 2025, Vermont Superior Court Judge John Pacht sealed the records of this arrest after the charge was dismissed. The story below was first published in January, 2022.
After a lengthy narcotics investigation spanning several months, detectives from the BurlingtonPolice Department and members of the BPD’s Emergency Response Unit executed residential search warrants in Burlington’s Ledgwood Circle neighborhood and on Farrell Street in South Burlington, the Burlington Police Department said January 18.
On the morning of Friday, January 14 investigators arrested Quenton Dodson, 33, of Detroit, MI, and Michoni Campbell, 23, of Burlington. The search warrant recovered more than a kilogram of methamphetamine, several ounces of fentanyl and cocaine, two firearms, more than $10,000 in US currency, and other illicit narcotics.
Mr. Dodson is facing several counts of felony drug sales, felony drug possession, and prohibited possession of a firearm. He was lodged for lack of bail at the Northwest State Regional Correctional Facility. Mr. Dodson has a lengthy and violent criminal history in Michigan, to include shooting three men during a narcotics transaction in Ypsilanti, MI, in 2012.
Ms. Campbell is facing several counts of felony drug possession. Ms. Campbell was lodged for lack of bail at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility.
“This is one of the largest seizures the BPD has seen in recent memory,” said acting Chief of Police Jon Murad. “Countywide, we’ve seen police incidents involving methamphetamine trend upwards for some time now. We can and do promote non-criminal approaches to personal-use drug possession, and we can and should provide services and medically assisted treatment to people who suffer from substance-use disorder.”
“But for felony-weight narcotics dealers who feed those disorders, we can and must investigate and arrest,” Murad said. “The drug detectives who have been working on this, and our terrific federal partners, did excellent work apprehending these alleged traffickers. Now we’re eager to parlay our casework into a strong prosecution.”