The Washington State woman, who has been charged in connection with a fatal shootout that killed a veteran U.S. Border Patrol Agent in Orleans County last month, has been transferred to a New Hampshire jail.
Teresa Youngblut, 21, is now at the Merrimack County Department of Corrections in Boscawen, N.H., a suburb of Concord.
Vermont News First learned the U.S. Marshals Service moved Youngblut out of the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington about 11 a.m. Wednesday.
A spokesman at the Merrimack County Jail, which is about 150 miles from Burlington, confirmed this afternoon that she was now at the facility.
Because there are no federal prisons in Vermont, the U.S. Marshals Service contracts with the Vermont Department of Corrections to house federal prisoners.
The contract is limited to holding about 70 federal prisoners, which include those recently arrested, others that are awaiting trial or sentencing and those that have been sentenced and are awaiting placement in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The U.S. Marshals Service, which does not discuss inmate transfers for safety reasons, also has contracts with facilities in New Hampshire and New York to handle the overflow of federal inmates.
Youngblut pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington during her arraignment last Friday afternoon to two felony assault charges.
She has not been charged with the actual death of the Border Patrol Agent.
Assistant Federal Defender Steven L. Barth asked for 90 days to investigate the case and to consider filing pre-trial motions.
Youngblut could be returned to the South Burlington prison for any pre-trial hearings.
She is charged with the intentional use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering with a federal Border Patrol Agent while he was performing his lawful duties in Coventry on Jan. 20.
The other not guilty plea was for a felony charge of knowingly brandishing and discharging a Glock model 23 40-caliber pistol during “the forcible assault with a deadly weapon” — a crime of violence that she might face in federal court.
The two criminal charges stem from a shootout about 3:15 p.m. Monday Jan. 20 on Interstate 91 in Coventry about 9 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border.
Border Patrol Agent David “Chris” Maland, 44, of Newport, who made the initial traffic stop, was wounded in the neck and was rushed by police cruiser to North Country Hospital in Newport where he was pronounced dead about 4 p.m.
He was joined by two other Border Patrol Agents as Youngblut opened fire, officials said.
Youngblut was wounded by the Border Patrol in the shootout that also claimed the life of her companion, Felix Bauckholt, 28, a German National. He never got a shot off from his firearm, officials have said.
He died from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.
Authorities initially listed Bauckholt as an illegal immigrant, but later revised it to say he had overstayed a work visa.
Youngblut was treated for gunshots for five days while under armed guard at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
Vermont News First initially broke the story about the double homicide in Coventry, the subsequent arrest of Youngblut and the new indictment against her.
During the arraignment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Lasher, while outlining the evidence that Barth would need to review, made mention that Youngblut had made a statement to police after the shooting.
Lasher did not indicate what Youngblut said or how long she spoke to law enforcement.
Depending on the circumstances of the statement, it could become the subject of a motion to try to suppress it as evidence.
