by Mike Donoghue
A Brooklyn, N.Y. man, who is a suspected member of the violent street gang known as The Bloods, has been arrested on federal charges of selling cocaine and conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in Chittenden County, court records show.
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations said Dwayne “Moo” Walcott, 34, has been under investigation for several months for illegal drug distribution while based in Winooski.
Court records show one of the crack cocaine sales happened on Aug. 9 at 10 LaFountain Street in Winooski, a known trouble spot in the city. The illegal drug sale happened as soft cocaine powder was being cooked into crack cocaine at the apartment while an informant waited, a HSI special agent said in a court affidavit.
Walcott has a criminal history that includes convictions for possession of a loaded firearm in 2013 and 2017, officials said. Walcott is supposed to be under post-release supervision for the 2017 gun conviction in New York, court records show.
“Law enforcement believes Walcott is a member of the Bloods gang which law enforcement knows participates in drug trafficking,” a HSI special agent said in a court affidavit.
HSI Task Force members arrested Walcott at the LaQuinta Inn and Suites at Blair Park in Williston on Tuesday. Also assisting were Winooski and Williston Police, the Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He was jailed overnight at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans Town.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a motion Wednesday seeking to have Walcott detained pending trial because the prosecution said it believes he is a danger to the community and a risk to flee.
“The defendant’s past behavior shows an inability to comport with the law even after repeated intervention of law enforcement,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Stendig said in his motion.
“The defendant engaged in highly dangerous conduct by dealing drugs that placed others – and himself – at risk of serious harm, all while serving a term of post-release supervision,” he wrote.
Walcott appeared briefly in U.S. District Court for his initial hearing late Wednesday afternoon. Federal Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle ordered him held pending trial after the defense did not object to the detention motion.
The 10 LaFountain Street address was subjected to a raid on Oct. 31 by HSI, Winooski Police and other law enforcement agencies.
Justin Bolio, 37, is facing federal charges of selling cocaine in Colchester on Oct. 25 and for possessing a loaded pump-action 12-gauge shotgun at the Winooski residence on Oct. 31 while he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance, court records show.
Court records at the time said Bolio’s arrest was the latest by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations as part of an active investigation targeting several drug trafficking suspects in the Winooski area this year.
Besides the loaded shotgun, investigators seized 10.5 grams of crack cocaine and $535 in cash from Bolio, records show.
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Categories: Crime, Drugs and Crime
We can be thankful this was an arrest by the Feds. A quick Google search by name turned up numerous, violent, felony arrests. Can about be assured if a local arrest Sarah George would have him home in time for dinner with an admonishment for not emptying his duck gun after hunting.
Just one more reason to stay the hell away from the BTV area and its DEI misfits.
Huh, Members of out of state gangs selling drugs in Vermont? The dickins you say ! The next thing you know they will be calling these drug dealers “Vermonters” !
another tourist filling the market needs for vermonters
another catch and release victim
Just another out-of-state entrepreneur selling his wares, he’s just one of many and
the state has let it happen…………….
This may sound racist, it’s not, but when you see a twenty-something-year-old driving a BMW or Mercedes with plates from NY, NJ, MA, or Connecticut up the interstate be it 89 or 91 doing 90+ miles per hour, and 90% of the time they are of color, and those are the facts, and they are not speeding because they are late for class, they are big city entrepreneurs just trying to make a living, off dumb Vermonter’s !!
They have the cars to prove it.
but the white dumb vermonter keeps buying the drugs////are we talking lawyers///doctors///high paid people that can afford high price drugs