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by Daniel Duric, for the Newport Dispatch
LYNDONVILLE, VT — A Lyndon man was arrested June 23after police found him hiding in a crawl space at a property where he had been arrested twice before in recent days.
Wyatt Gilman, 26, of Lyndon, was charged with unlawful trespass of a dwelling, violation of conditions of release and resisting arrest.
A Lyndonville Police Department patrol officer conducting an exterior building check at 16 Brookside Lane found an unsecured window.
The property had been the site of two prior arrests since June 19, 2026 involving a man returning despite being evicted.
Officers entered the building and found Gilman hiding in a small closet or crawl space off an upstairs bedroom.
Gilman resisted arrest and was physically taken into custody.
He was held at the Lyndonville Police Department before a court ordered him held in lieu of $500 bail.
Gilman was lodged at the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility.
The Vermont State Police assisted during the building search and arrest.
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Details are missing as to whether the property was vacant and/or unoccupied by persons legally qualified to be there. Regardless, we can only hope that yet another unsavory trend of the post-COVID, I-am-a-victim socialist revolution, squatting, is not taking hold in the Green Mountain State. Also, in any sane jurisdiction, when someone violates their pre-trial “conditions of release”, it should mean that they are NO LONGER RELEASED. Most of the rest of the country has acknowledged that the 2024 election heralded in a swing back toward the concept of personal responsibility, but the democrat-leaning areas are pretending to have not gotten the memo.
Yes, as Rich said, would be good to know more details as to the state of the building, whether it was abandoned or what…. Sounds like the guy has a mental illness of some sort.