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The Vermont State Police Drug Task Force, in collaboration with the Brattleboro Police Department and Brattleboro Probation & Parole, arrested two Connecticut residents in connection with a drug distribution operation in Brattleboro.
State police say that on Thursday, Feb. 20 authorities took Rondale Mapp, 38 (photo at left), and Rayteisha Hernandez, 30, both of Hartford, CT, into custody following a months-long investigation into the sale of fentanyl and cocaine at 50 Central Street.
According to the Vermont Drug Task Force, Mapp sold cocaine on four occasions and fentanyl once, while Hernandez was involved in three cocaine sales and two fentanyl transactions. At the time of her arrest, Hernandez was in possession of a glassine bag of fentanyl transported from out of state.
Both suspects were processed at the Brattleboro Police Department before being transferred to the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. Mapp, who was already on probation for a prior narcotics conviction, faces additional charges for probation violations. His bail was set at $50,000, while Hernandez’s bail was set at $25,000.
Mapp and Hernandez are scheduled to appear in Vermont Superior Court in Brattleboro on Friday, Feb. 21, at 12:30 p.m.
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Imagine that! More dealers from Hartford and one on probation for previous drug offenses. Gotta love diversity.
Did they have their Act250 permit for dealing drugs?
Seriously, what state wide business gets out of its over site? What was the chain of custody? What effects will it have on traffic? Schools? Are there any environmental concerns? Do they have msds sheets? Is this a hazardous waste? Is it hazardous material? Have they notified all the neighbors they will be dealing? What has the public input been? Does it comply with zoning?
If we were half as discriminatory towards drug dealers in Vermont as we are legitimate business we’d be drug free!
This is how screwed up Vermont is, business people joke, want to make a million dollars in Vermont? Bring two million!
Drug dealers joke want to deal drugs in Vermont? They’ll arrest you one day and let you out the next! If you go to trial they’ll let you go on a profiling charge! Best state in the union to deal drugs, everybody in town knows where you live, what you are doing bout nobody does or says anything, not even the cops. Vt is great place to deal drugs!
Rt. 91 roadblocks by VSP should be established now. It is easy to profile these death merchants. Pick them off in Vernon. 10-year prison sentence for entering Vermont with intent to deal drugs. Problem solved.
Exactly! I’ve been saying the same thing for years now. In fact, I made this exact point about VSP at the border in Vernon in a comment just last week or the week before.
No manpower? Hire more cops! Assign them directly to a Vermont State Drug Trafficking Task Force and put them on all the interstates in unmarked vehicles. The downstream money and lives saved by grabbing these people early will more than offset the extra salaries. No space to put these fine citizens? Build more prisons, and build them in the areas of the state that are the most economically depressed. Think of the hundreds of jobs at each facility!
Heck, take the money from our bloated and overpaid education system, I don’t care.
You can cut down all the weeds you want, but if you don’t get the roots, they’ll just come back over and over and over again. Has anyone noticed that all these stories contain the phrases “… has xxx felony arrests”, “was wanted for a parole violation”, “has a criminal record dating back to 2007”, or something very similar? You think that might be trying to tell us something?
And finally, why are all of these things so obvious to us, but not the legislature?
Did you say “profile”?!?! 😮😲😧
To build an apartment complex in Rutland they were going to charge $750,000 on permit fees. Charge the same amount for any illegal drug dealings on a yearly basis and go after the money. Go up the drug dealing pipe line and charge the suppliers. Chain of custody, operating a franchise without a permit.
Both perps will be eating lunch by 1:30 pm today at a local restaurant plotting their next trip to pick up another load of fentanyl laced smack or blow. Business as usual.
Look at that sickening smirk on her face – she knows in VT she is the “coveted” face of “diversity”. GET THEM OUT & UNDER LOCK & KEY! And get an adjoining cell for the lawless prosecutors who refuse to prosecute!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably just some winter tourists who have been unjustly targeted and “profiled” by our local racist cracker law enforcement professionals. This injustice should be investigated by Atty Gen. Charity Clark, and an apology issued immediately. In this time of Trump-inspired intolerance and bigotry, public officials from our “brave little state” need to go the extra mile to reinforce the philosophy that “diversity is our strength”. Even with over 200 Vermonters succumbing annually to opioid overdoses, we can’t let those few unfortunate deaths spoil Vermont’s reputation for tolerance and inclusiveness. Everyone deserves a second chance, or in the case of Mr. Mapp, who violated probation from a previous drug conviction, a third chance.
So these two entrepreneurs were welcomed to Vermont to sell there wears, welcomed
yes, because of the lack lusture criminal and judicial system we have, just look at the bail prices set for these two felons ” $50k & $25k ” that means they only need to post 10% , you don’t think drugs dealers won’t have the ten percent ……….we have fools incharge.
They come here because they know our liberal systems are a walk in the park !!
Those native Vermonters are the worst!!!!!
What are the chances of deportation back to somewhere? A Greyhound bus should be in their future.