Drive-by shooting in Morristown/ Barre shooting leads to drug ring arrests
By Guy Page
A Springfield, Massachusetts man is in critical condition following an early Wednesday morning, December 13 shooting in St. Albans, St. Albans City police say.
Quinton Lockett-Simmonds, 23, was transported to UVMMC after police found him alone in a 100 Lake Street apartment, following a 4:04 AM report of shooting inside the apartment. The lone shooting suspect fled immediately after the shooting and before police arrived, police say.
Lockett-Simmonds was charged with an armed bank robbery in Springfield when he was 18 years old, according to local media reports.
Drive-by shooting in Morristown – Shortly after 9 pm Wednesday Dec. 13, Morristown Police Department responded to 205 Center Road in Morristown for a report of a drive-by shooting.
Officer’s responded and located evidence of numerous gun shots fired at a home and into a vehicle parked in the driveway. Nobody was injured by the gunfire.
Morristown Police is looking for a black colored SUV with tinted windows that was reportedly in the area at the time of the shooting. Anyone with information pertaining to this shooting is asked to contact the Morristown Police Department at (802) 888-4211.
Drug bust follows Barre shooting – A search warrant executed in Barre December 9, and following a November 25 shooting, has resulted in the arrest of three people on drug distribution charges.
On November 25, a woman was treated at the Central Vermont Medical Center Emergency Department for a non-life threatening gunshot wound in Barre City, city police say. The victim was non-cooperative with law enforcement. But police learned she had been shot at a Spaulding Street home that was a drug distribution site. A search warrant was obtained and was executed on December 9 by Barre City and Barre Town officers.
Officers seized a rifle, a large amount of crack cocaine, fentanyl, and other regulated drugs, as well as other evidence of drug distribution. Further evidence showed the shooting had occurred inside the residence.
38 year old Paul Giacherio of Barre and 35 year old Katelyn Pierce also of Barre, who were both under the supervision of Probation & Parole, were subsequently transferred into the custody of the Department of Corrections. Megan Quinn, 44, of Barre was released on a citation. All were scheduled to appear in court to answer to charges of fentanyl trafficking, sale of cocaine, possession of hallucinogens, and selling/dispensing from a dwelling. Additionally, Giacherio is being charged with reckless endangerment and possessing a firearm while being a prohibited person.
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We export maple syrup and cheese and we import illegal drugs and gang members.
Those silly Vermonters attracted the gangs by making the drugs illegal: Prohibition does not make the market for drugs disappear; it merely transfers control of the market to criminals.
If we get rid of speed limits on our interstate, will that reduce speeding?
Laws should follow natural law, not work against it or promote behavior that doesn’t benefit anyone.
There are extremes, you could not walk the streets a Kaboul when the Taliban were not in power. When we handed it back to them, it was safe there were no drug dealings or crime. Now the consequence was absurd, get caught stealing and you lose your hand. The results were dramatic.
This is where an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth comes in. Punishment should fit the crime. Perhaps not so hard on drug users, but extremely hard on drug dealers.
Our state wants organic misty knoll chicken, but it’s ok to drug up our citizens, to drug up our children and to force ineffective vaccinations on our children. During the pandemic, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) vanished, seems parents weren’t able to get their children vaccinated and low and behold, look what happened.
Some would argue the reason we don’t have cheap gas, good jobs, good schools, reasonably priced homes is because it is infinitely harder to do any of these things in Vermont than dealing drugs.
To be a drug dealer in Vermont, you don’t need any permits and there are little to no consequences. You’ll be let off easy, perhaps let go because of profiling. However, if you commit a zoning violation you will have the full force of the Golden dome on your case, just ask those who pruchased a magazine with more than 10 rounds or if you trained people in how to use a gun on your property and personal defense…..
In that case, watch out…..they’ll be after you. Dealing drugs???? Not so much.
We have a serious drug and alcohol problem in our state, doing more, making it easier to do more drugs and alcohol, might not get the results you are looking for. Drugs are a fool’s gamble.
screw the new world order we now need a new vermont order st albans needs to stop using drugs and will shut down the supply chain
People always have, and always will use drugs. If we want to reduce drug use, stop enabling them with welfare and subsidy schemes. Stop government from spending, destroying wealth, and making life harder on people. Get back caring family structure in society, and stop making government “your daddy”.
The most harm comes from making drugs contraband. Who thrives with contraband? Governments get bigger and badder and drug gangs get bigger and badder. If you want to remove a big chunk of power and money from people that do bad things, legalize all drugs, and use current laws to make sellers of products liable in court for any damages. This way you will get better and safer products, and harm will be reduced to a level that society is comfortable with.
The answer to everything is freedom and love. If freedom and love doesn’t fix the problem, you need more freedom and more love.
Vermont
That has never worked anywhere it’s been tried; always makes things worse. And how exactly are you going to go after the “sellers” of bad products? You going to pursue the drug dealers for selling bad “stuff”?! Better off getting tough with the sellers and the buyers because both are harming VT.
@ VTIndependent – What you are proposing has never worked anywhere it’s been tried, and always greatly increases harm. What you are proposing is just generating more bad guys. What I am proposing has rarely been tried throughout history of humanity. I’m not talking about half-measures such as decriminalizing. I’m talking about legalizing freedom and accountability. If I go to the store and buy a product that kills me, they are open to civil, and possible criminal liability if negligence is involved. No more drug dealers – just businesses that will have to find a way to reduce the risks to an acceptable level. No false government permit protections. Make everyone accountable for their actions. Sell off public/downtown areas to private companies who will be allowed to keep the riffraff out. The drug war is a proven failure. Pay attention.
Thugs from the cities up here selling their goods to stupid lowlife Vermonters,
trash, white, black, or brown………………trash is trash !!
When will we learn ??
Drive by shootings in Vermont small towns…something isn’t right
The increased restrictions on prescription pharmaceuticals have turbocharged the black market. Prohibition always increases crime, as gangsters battle for control of territory and law enforcement becomes corrupted by irresistible profits. When alcohol prohibition was repealed, the crime rate was cut in half, and corrupt police agencies lost millions of dollars in black market revenue. Four years later, an unconstitutional federal statute created a new black market for cannabis. This was not widely opposed because the prohibitionists called it “marijuana” — a word that the general public was unfamiliar with. We still face a similar problem today, as the general public is really quite ignorant of how the system actually works. Bottom line is, prohibition does more harm than good.
Using drugs to solve problems, rather than deal with life’s problems in a productive way is a bigger issue. When every ad is about how drugs will make you better in bed, lose weight, live forever, combat all the poor life decisions you made and can continue if you take the drugs….is the real issue.
Generally speaking, drug dealers, either street vendors or big pharma have the same motivation. Get you hooked and make lots of money. If it doesn’t solve the problem and you still continue taking the drug is the best business model for both vendors.
Big Pharma is even more clever, they get taxpayers to subsidize the making, distributing and purchasing! Of course, they have inside men, lobbyists. Well now that I think about it drug dealers have inside men…..FBI, CIA, etc, etc.
Prohibition is a natural and beneficial asset to every human and animal on the planet, we do it to ourselves all the time and it insures the survival of the species. We naturally prohibit ourselves from picking fights with people immensely stronger. We naturally prohibit ourselves from jumping off of high places. We naturally prohibit ourselves from eating nasty food, jumping into a cage with hungry tiger.
Prohibition of urges, desires, is one of the most beneficial things a person can learn. Prohibition is a wonderful thing.