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by Guy Page
Saturday morning, Montpelier officers responded to reports of multiple loose donkeys wandering through the upper Main Street area.
‘After a little teamwork and patience, we safely rounded them up with their owners,” MPD reported Sunday. “We’re happy to report that the donkeys are home, safe and sound, and no incidents occurred.” No further details were provided.
No report of any wandering elephants….. Editor.
The 22-year-old Williamstown man who police were searching for after a pair of incidents in Berlin earlier this month was arrested on Saturday night in Barre, the Journal-Opinion reports.
Devin Hallock was taken into custody after a two-hour standoff at a residence on North Main Street. Earlier in the day, police spotted Hallock in Barre, but he had fled on foot.
According to a news release from Barre Police Department, authorities later learned that he was at the North Main Street residence. Officers from five different agencies responded and surrounded the residence. Initially, Hallock, who had climbed up onto the roof, refused to surrender, but turned himself in after two hours.
His arraignment in Washington County Superior Court is this morning. He faces a number of charges, including felony assault on a law enforcement officer, first-degree unlawful restraint, and gross negligent operation stemming from an encounter with police in a parking lot at a church.
He also allegedly crashed a car into the Market32 storefront.
Busted for not securing toddler in car seat – On the morning of Sunday, January 12, state police were dispatched to Canal Drive in Readsboro, following a report of a concerning incident involving a juvenile. Troopers found that Suzanne Sylvester, 74, of Jamaica had driven a toddler from Readsboro to a home in Jamaica without properly securing the child in a car seat, in violation of child safety regulations.
The authorities subsequently located Sylvester and arrested her on charges of Reckless Endangerment and Cruelty to a Child. She was processed at the Winhall Police Department before being issued a citation to appear in court.
The Vermont State Police remind all caregivers of the critical importance of properly securing children in appropriate car seats to ensure their safety during travel.
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I kind of went into brain overload on the donkey story….so many comments came to mind…very few of which I could submit. But……Won’t they be late for their committee meeting?
You said it all without saying it!
I was probably thinking the same thing.
Is there a difference between a Donkey and a Jackass, asking for a friend?
If the Jackasses have wandered out of the State House, for goodness sake, lock the doors so they can’t get back in!
Stupidity overload happens every year in the Statehouse when the usual
majority takes their seats.
LOL!!!
Thank you for the low-hanging fruit on a Monday!
Supermajority had to go SOMEWHERE…
My how swiftly they arrested and prosecuted a grandmother (most likely scenario) for accidentally failing to secure a toddler in their carseat. There would have been fewer repercussions if she had tried to teach the toddler that they could be a boy or a girl.
A good laugh bray for all. Thank you!
When I saw the headline, I thought the statehouse got cleared out……….
I am appalled by the story of the woman getting arrested about failing to put a child in a safety seat. Poor journalism if nothing else, because we’re not told if there was a safety seat in the car to begin with, nor anything about the circumstances wherein the woman needed to transport the child, from whose home to whose home, nor anything about her behavior that would qualify as reckless or cruel. There’s a big difference between cruelty and carelessness. Why wasn’t a citation, fine, and public embarrassment good enough to punish her and discourage her from doing it again? No mention of any accident that harmed or killed the child, not even a near miss or bad winter weather adding risk to the situation. Who is the virtuous busybody who made the “report of a concerning incident”? And did anybody think that somebody 74 years old might have grown up in the era pre-safety seats, and possibly raised her own children without them, so wasn’t being reckless by intent and may have never before needed to purchase one and install it in her vehicle? What if she had to drive somebody else’s, which wasn’t equipped, in order to save the child from someone who really *was* a risk? Instead, all we learn is that a citizen is treated as a criminal while there are still some serious real criminals running around out there uncaught and unpunished. As Renee notes, “there would have been fewer repercussions if she had tried to teach the toddler that they could be a boy or a girl.”
It must’ve been really dangerous to hunt down and arrest that big bad grandma.
Whew! Give those cops an award!!
Not to worry. The democrats and RINOs are in session. Donkeys are all over the place until adjournment.
I agree we need to protect our children. However, that means all of them. Don’t arrest grandmothers when physicians can legally kill unborn children in our state.
VIP beat me to it! Montpelier been over run with Jack Asses a long time.
Mules get a bad name when you compare them with the state house critters.
Arrest a senior citizen for not having a toddler in a car seat, but release a previously convicted ADULT FELON to his Mammas care and supervision?? Only in Vermont!
“ The authorities subsequently located Sylvester and arrested her on charges of Reckless Endangerment and Cruelty to a Child. She was processed at the Winhall Police Department before being issued a citation to appear in court.”
I’m sorry, but this is so over the top, arrested…really?!?! They couldn’t have just reminded her of the law and given her a written warning? With so much REAL crime going unaddressed, this is a non story. We aren’t even told if the child was restrained at all, it could’ve been in a seatbelt, but not using the now mandated booster. When we were kids (in the 60s & 70s), my father -who was very safety oriented – double buckled us kids, which would be totally illegal now. A friend of mine moved out to Arizona with her father and family (9 kids) in the 70s and they all rode in the back of a pickup truck with a cap. Could you imagine the headlines on that today?
Back in the 50s when I was a child our Sunday drive was in the back of an old telephone truck with an enclosed service body. The only thing we could see was thru the rust holes till we got to an ice cream stand. This over the top treatment of a grandmother is incomprehensible to me. A warning should have been plenty . Maybe she will be tried by a judge that thinks it is o k to release hardened repeat criminals on personal recognizance.
Maybe they should arrest that judge as he is much more of a threat than this old lady.
We still haven’t seen the Lolita Express frequent flyer list or found out who left the co cain in the White House.
Christopher Bray comes to mind….