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By Guy Page
A 34-year-old Philadelphia man has been arrested and ordered held without bail in connection with the October 3 stabbing of a woman in downtown Burlington.
Umar Amin Jr., 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was arrested October 9 by Burlington police officers without incident. He was arraigned October 13 on a charge of aggravated assault and ordered held without bail pending a weight of the evidence hearing.
The arrest follows an investigation into an early morning assault that began near Church and Cherry streets and continued several blocks away near Pearl and Clarke streets.
At about 4:44 AM October 3, Burlington police responded to reports of a person in distress yelling for help near Pearl and Clarke streets. Officers found a woman suffering from an apparent stab wound to her back.
The victim told police that an unknown man had confronted her during a verbal dispute near Church and Cherry streets and then began assaulting her. The attack continued near Pearl and Clarke streets, where she was stabbed.
Burlington firefighters provided medical assistance and transported the woman to the University of Vermont Medical Center. Her injuries were not life-threatening, and she was released from the hospital later that evening.
Police initially released a description and photograph of the suspect, describing him as a Black man wearing round glasses, a black and teal vest, a white and blue brimmed hat, and long hair in dreadlocks or braids tied back.
The case was assigned to the Burlington Police Department’s Detective Services Bureau, which subsequently identified Amin as the suspect.
Police have not disclosed a possible motive for the attack or whether Amin and the victim knew each other.
The investigation remains open. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Nikki Moyer at 802-540-2326.
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Another tourist enjoying the wonderful City of Burlington Vermont. Comment from Richard Day.
Another long-time Vermonter fed up with the quiet rural life.
Mayor Emma-Hyphen and her supportive colleagues on the City Council can certainly beam with pride over the myriad package of programs and benefits they have promoted and provided which have attracted such a fine slice of humanity from afar to their diversity-celebrating, progressive utopia of the Peoples’ Republic of Burlington. The examples of success resulting from their bold leadership and accomplishments set such a fine illustration for all the up-and-coming progressives running for office across the land under the banner of the Democrat Socialists of America. People all across the country who are fortunate enough to have ballot options for such forward-thinking progressive and DSA candidates should look to Burlington’s success in implementing the promising, progressive world of tomorrow.
That hyphen in her name really triggers you, doesn’t it Rich. You bring it up consistently, yet seem to be ignorant of the fact that most people with hyphenated last names received them at birth, just as the Mayor did.
Grow up and/or get over it, Rich.
Mr. Davis, everyone born in a hospital also receives a qualified designation of their birth sex as determined by a licensed medical professional, which gets recorded on an official birth certificate. Sometimes people then feel the need to later amend it to their personal preference. I just like making fun of da Mayor, because of her ridiculous politics. When you see my name in the header of a comment, feel free to ignore it.
Bernie Sanders sure did open the doors for demons to feel at home in the Peoples Republic of Vermont, judging by the headlines every day, and now he wants to do for the country what he did for Burlington!
At least they didn’t say Burlington man
Making an issue of the suspects race does not add any value to the discussion and is just wrong.
What might be of value is finding out what attracted them here from Philly and if there had been prior infractions that were glossed over.
By some strange coincidence, Louis Hines, who bludgeoned an innocent young woman to death on the lawn of the Unitarian Church at the top of the marketplace back in 1980…also originally from Philly. What attracted his mother here with the family was supposedly to get them away from the mean streets and start a new life, but instead they brought the mean streets with them. Something about Burlington attracted them here, and it wasn’t the maple syrup and cute shops on Church Street. There is a short list of cities in the northeast that have shown a statistical likelihood of producing people who have come to Vermont to cause serious trouble, and many of those criminally-inclined folks also share a racial commonality. From a public and personal safety perspective, it is noteworthy. Call it racism if you like, but I see it as survival instinct. That list of places includes Hartford CT, several boroughs of NYC, Springfield and Holyoke Massachusetts and of course Philadelphia. There is nothing wrong with observing common threads of criminal suspects, behavior and geography…it’s just common sense.
Hi Rich – I went to school – BHS – with three Hines boys and one of the girls. My sense was that Louie had mental issues even in high school, probably augmented by heavy marijuana use. I could be wrong. The other kids were fine as far as I knew. I didn’t know they were from Philly but could be.
I think the reason so many people of color pop up on the police reports is that they’re involved with the big city crime gangs selling drugs here. Fundamentally race does not have much to do with it- which may be the point you are making. I can assure folks we don’t pick crime photos, which are typically sent to us by the police, based on skin color.
This is nothing more that Burlington is trying to show how culturally diverse they are by appropriating some big city crime so you can appreciate the culture of some of our sister sanctuary states.
The racism flows like a river.
Unfortunately, violent crime where the perpetrators have a very disproportionate statistical association with certain races flows like a river of blood.
Race is a side issue. What are the ECONOMIC incentives that attract this dynamic?
Obviously, the profit margins in VT are so superior to those in the metro that they warrant the inherent risks and bad behaviors of moving narcotics 378 miles, what with the price of gas and all, and distributing them in Burlingon.
Again, can anyone here, please, elucidate us as to why the run is worth the risk?
Any city or town in Vermont that has a market for crack, opioids, meth or tranq (Xylazine) will have a supplier. The downcountry gangs from Hartford CT, Holyoke and Springfield Mass and then beyond to NYC and Philly are organized and have an endless pipeline of people willing to make the runs and set up sales fronts with locals. They like Vermont because of our woke prosecutors and understaffed police departments with officers who are afraid of using common-sense police intuition lest they be accused of racial bias. It’s a profitable paradise here for them with woke policies protecting them.