The Burlington man with 1600 interactions with police since 2012 has one more.
Winooski police say Michael Reynolds, 46, was drunk Wednesday March 20 at around 6 pm and refused to leave a Winooski business (left unnamed), according to police. While being taken into custody, he spit on and headbutted officers and called them racial vulgarities, according to the WCAX media report.
Reynolds had been charged with violating a trespass order and pushing people at a food shelf on February 27. At the time he was arraigned and released.
At the time, Reynolds had had over 30 incidents with police since Jan. 1 spit on an officer during his arrest outside of a food shelf, Burlington police said earlier this month.
Around 11:39 AM on Tuesday, February 27, people at the Feeding Chittenden food shelf told police that a man who had previously been issued a no-trespass notice had entered the building. He was said to have pushed many people and acted confrontationally. The man was identified as Reynolds. Reynolds was also violating conditions of release ordering him to stay away from a specific person who was present at the time of the call. Police found Reynolds outside the location when they arrived. Reynolds was arrested, during which action he assaulted an officer with bodily fluids, police say.
Reynolds has had more than 1,600 police engagements, nearly 1,400 in Burlington, more than any other individual in the Valcour records management system, dating back to 2012. He has had over 30 run-ins in 2024 already. Over the past several years he has been legally barred from nearly 150 locations in the Queen City. Reynolds’s criminal history includes: 10 failures to appear; 39 charges and 3 convictions for Violation of Court Orders or Conditions; 19 charges and 6 convictions for various felonies; 162 charges and 42 convictions for various misdemeanors; and 32 charges and 13 convictions for assaultive crimes. After the Burlington bust, Reynolds was arraigned and released once again on conditions.
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Why isn’t he locked up???
And Burlington wonders why they have a crime problem. How about next time the police have to go deal with this guy have them bring along the judge who will be seeing him in court. Have the judge be in the front so he can get spit on and get some of that body fluid on him. Then see if he locks the guy up when he is sitting behind the bench. Want to take bets on whether or not he does lock him up?
I know we live in a moonbat’s marxist, antifa paradise in Vermont these days, but if there was ONE criminal statute that should MANDATE a year of confinement upon conviction, it ought to be assaulting a LEO with bodily fluids. Either that or the police ought to be allowed to respond to a potentially pathogenic projectile with a pathogenic projectile of their own from Mr. Glock. How much indignity and abuse do we really expect our sworn officers to endure?
There is. Threatening a protected person. 13 VSA § 1702.
It would be ms.sarah george whom makes that decision in this case.
You remember her, she’s the State’s Atty that doesn’t believe in bail, amongst other
laws.
Round up the usual suspects….oh it’s him
Has Vermont Justice gone awry or what?
Let’s wait till something serious happens so we can look back on the warning signs wistfully keeping Vermont legal tradition alive.
So, could we call this person a career criminal? Nah, not in liberal Vermont, he’s just had a few bad days in life………….. so maybe he only needs one more chance !!
Let’s make it 1,601…………..so we can round up his record , this is what you get when you have liberals in charge.
Just guessing here but mental health may be involved.
First with the individual, where something ain’t right with the boy.
Second with the judiciary, which allows this individual to put both police and the public at risk on a perpetual basis.
…thirdly with the majority of Vermont voters, who consistently maintain pro-criminal legislators and other public officials in office. Liberalism is the predominant mental disorder at play here.
A Middlebury student was stabbed and almost killed yesterday in a random attack. You would think if there’s any place you could feel safe sending your kids, it’s Middlebury. But the leaders of Vermont will likely double down on the “racial equity” rather than keep Vermonters safe.
put some bars on that nice building the state has in burlington and find this
confused and dangerous creature a room/// the state does not need to build any more buildings// the public is sick of this dog and pony show///
Mike Reynolds threatened to steal from me if I did not give him money. He brags about the more than 1600 encounters with the police. St Joseph’s Cathedral had to erect a giant fence around the outside back stairway to keep him from camping out on the first floor landing.
What are the chances this drunkard will end up killing someone? If and when he does, remember that Sarah George is to blame.
If only the majority-idiot voters of Chittenden County would see our State’s Attorney as the existential danger that she is…
I live in Middlebury but between the homeless camps, the stabbing, the drunk prosecutor, rampant shoplifting, unsolved murders and Vermont’s refusal to lock crazy people, I’m planning to sell up and move away—to a state that actually enforces their laws.
Where does he find the time?
Other states have 3 strikes rules, VT has 30,000!
The article left out the name of the judge who released him? Who is he/she?
Maybe the next time he has an encounter with the police, the States Attorney should be made to go arrest him, along with any liberal, progressive, democrat judge and government officials. They could all get spit on or assaulted at the same time! Then turn him loose again per the laws that they created!