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What does "Alternate LIfestyles" mean?
Not everyone in Burlington is a church going heterosexual that grows up, gets a job earning an honest and legal income, gets married to someone of the opposite gender, and has children by way of their sexual activity with that person. An "Alternate lifestyle" can be anything that deviates from what most of us would consider to the normal (and traditional) lifestyle that is recommended by the Lord. In fact, Burlington seems to attract many people that choose to live other life styles. I realized that there were many things I had not been sure how to categorize that would easily fit in this category.
Disclaimer: I am NOT condoning or condemning these lifestyles, by listing them on my web page. In fact, as a bible-believing Christian, the web master does not agree with any of the life styles mentioned below. But, the directory was originally designed to be a secular listing of local web sites and stories, without moral consideration or prejudice. The fact that these sites are listed is only to show the fact that the following does exist in Burlington, not to condone or condemn it. I do, however, feel a need to make it known that I DO NOT sanction any of these activities.
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23-year-old Kristen Badger wept as she was charged
with involuntary manslaughter.
Police say Badger and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Eric Blaisdell, provided a fatal dose of the powerful painkiller Oxycodon to 23-year-old Jeremy Garcia. Police say Garcia gave the couple to buy the pills for him from a dealer, then crushed the pills and inhaled before the suspects dropped him off at a Burlington home where Garcia later died.
Both Badger and Blaisdell were charged with involuntary manslaughter for providing a fatal dose of an illegal drug. There have been only two prior convictions in Vermont for drug-related manslaughter. One prosecuted in federal court. The other in state court by Chittenden County Prosecutor Robert Simpson ten years ago.
... Simpson says providing illegal drugs that cause an overdose carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison even if the victim survives. If fatal, it's manslaughter. If not, it's aggravated assault.
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29 officers from several Chittenden County departments
raided two Winooski homes looking for drugs Saturday morning. They found a huge amount of cocaine. "We had what we call a no-knock warrant which means we went in with great amount of force," said Sgt. Rick Benoint, of the Winooski Police Dept. "It was definitely a show of force that we hope will send clear message to drug dealers because we are by no means done with this case." Tanya Foy, also known as Tanya Rock, was just one person arrested for using and dealing cocaine. Police say more arrests are on the way. "We made numerous other arrests last night," said Sgt. Benoint. "Others were released on citations. Some potentially will be facing charges not only at thestate level but at the federal level."
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A Burlington woman is in jail charged with supplying
the heroin that killed a friend.
Police say the incident happened at the Victoria Place housing development on Pearl Street last week. Police arrived to find 40-year old James Marcoux dead on a couch inside a second-floor apartment.
Last night, police arrested 43-year old Anne McClure and charged her with delivery of heroin based on information that she allegedly administered the fatal dose. McClure was held on ,000 cash bail.
Police are waiting for toxicology results to confirm the cause of death at which point McClure could conceivably face a homicide charge.
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A large drug bust in Winooski has a strange family twist.
Last year, Daryl James was shot in the head and groin at his East Street home. Police say it was because of his alleged involvement with drug connections.
Now, James has turned his son over to authorities for dealing, and the information turned out to be very valuable.
Seventy thousand dollars in cash and three ounces of cocaine are what Burlington detectives found in an all too familiar spot.
Burlington Police Lt. Walt Decker said, "This is probably one of the largest single seizures of cash that we've had here that's been investigated by our unit."
Their informant, 35-year-old Daryl James, has a spotty criminal record.
In March of 2002, James' home was crawling with police investigating a shooting.
Two out-of-state men tied up Daryl James and his family, and tried to kill him.
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Last weekend, James was picked up for a misdemeanor and led police back to the same home, where his son, 20-year-old Dannis Hackney, was dealing.
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Arnold Sweeney and Stacy McGraw
used cocaine together overnight Wednesday and early Thursday while McGraw's 3-month-old son was in the apartment. Sweeney discovered McGraw was dead when he tried to wake her Thursday afternoon, according to court papers written by Winooski Police Sgt. Rich Benoit. The papers say Sweeney attended to the baby, Shea Raymond Barber, only by giving the infant a pacifier from the time Sweeney awoke at 7 a.m. until emergency workers came to the apartment after 3 p.m.
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Authorities say the investigation of a gruesome murder
in Burlington has triggered a second investigation into a major drug ring.
Police say the drug investigation was triggered by Monday's arrest of James Provost, 23, Burlington, for the murder of Susan Dow, 41. Provost has reportedly confessed that he fatally beat and stabbed Dow to steal her credit cards, some cash, and personal belongings to obtain cash to buy drugs.
Police say Dow resided in the victim's apartment for three weeks with the victim's decomposing body and used her car for shopping sprees with Dow's stolen property. Provost was arrested thanks to a tip from his girlfriend Evonne Chabot, according to police. But Friday police also arrested Chabot and she was arraigned on felony charges as an accomplice in the fraudulent use of Dow's credit cards. Police say Chabot took part in the shopping trips with her boyfriend.
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Daryl James was shot over drugs.
Police say the shooting incident began around 12:30 today when two masked men invaded the James family first floor apartment at 55 East Street. The invaders reportedly tied up Mrs. James -- three of her chidlren -- including a young daughter with cerebral palsy. Then they pistol-whipped her 19-year-old son but he escaped -- then they shot her husband, 34-year-old Daryl James.
Vermont State Police says 21-year-old Kevin McLeod has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting Daryl James in the head and in the groin at his home. He was not seriously hurt. McLeod's brother, 27-year-old Jermain McLeod, is charged with kidnapping for his alleged role in tying up the other occupants at the home. The two were arrested Monday in Worcester by the Massachusetts State Police.
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Drug dealer, Elrehaine Whitely, was murdered.
Police say Elrehaine Whitely was shot as he sat in a car in the alley next to a Pine Street apartment building. Police say Whitely and two other men had gone to the building to sell cocaine that had been ordered by young customers living in the apartments rented by Spectrum Youth Services. But police say the young customers instead tried to rob the drug dealers at gunpoint -- and when it was all over at least seven shots had been fired from two handguns -- and Whitely was mortally wounded.
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James Provost arrested for the murder of Susan Dow
The man they were looking for, James Provost, 23, was on the run -- avoiding police. His last known address, according to his mother, was the Motel Brown in Burlington. Now it's a jail cell. ... Provost is being held on outstanding warrants for domestic assault and violations of probation. He's now been named as a suspect in the homicide that took place in a North Winooski apartment house. The victim, Susan Dow, 41, died of trauma -- though police won't elaborate. Police say the drug investigation was triggered by Monday's arrest of James Provost, 23, Burlington, for the murder of Susan Dow, 41. Provost has reportedly confessed that he fatally beat and stabbed Dow to steal her credit cards, some cash, and personal belongings to obtain cash to buy drugs. Police say Dow resided in the victim's apartment for three weeks with the victim's decomposing body and used her car for shopping sprees with Dow's stolen property. new Click here to read more.
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Police say the high-profit drug ring ran out of a dorm room
in Sichel Hall for about eight weeks until a robbery busted the entire operation. Police say the ringleader was Michael Prah of Quebec, a student who went into the business when he learned he could make about a profit of per pound selling Quebec-grown pot on campus. Police say Prah and students Sarah Hayes, Cyrus Patten, and Andrew Richards used backpacks to haul the Quebec pot across the border in eight to ten pound lots.
Last November, Ray Montanez, a member of the UVM baseball team, reportedly bought some marijuana from Michjael Prah in the dorm. But four of Montanez's friends who apparently went with him to the dorm room and beat and robbed Prah of ,000 in cash and eight pounds of pot. Campus police found about it found out about it last fall, but it took months before Montanez was suspended just this week.
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Stacey Parnitzke is Accused Of Allowing young Daughter To Be Raped
in exchange for drugs.
54-year-old Kenneth Jackson was indicted by a federal grand jury.
Police say a Burlington man planned to sell 69 grams of cocaine.
Police say they found the coke at Jackson's home on Peru Street. He was already on furlough for another cocaine charge when he was busted.
If convicted of this new crime, Jackson faces life in jail and a million fine.
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A Bronx man out on furlough for a near-fatal stabbing
in Burlington faces new charges of assault, robbery, and drug-dealing.
Police say they discovered 24-year-old Christopher Thompson was drug-dealing while on house arrest this week after he beat and robbed one of his customers. The victim claimed that Thompson was also packing a firearm, however police found no guns or drugs when they searched Thompson's house-arrest apartment at Williston's Maple Tree Place.
Thompson had been living there for two months since he was furloughed after serving three years for stabbing a man in Burlington in 1998.
Thompson pleaded innocent today to assault and robbery. His furlough was revoked and he was returned to prison because of the new charges.
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A Burlington woman who reportedly provided methadone to a friend
has become the second suspect charged in Vermont under a get-tough law that ups the penalty for providing drugs that kill.
For several years there has been a law on the books that was designed to crack down on anyone who provides a drug that kills someone. But that law has only been used rarely. Wednesday, that law was used for the second time in less than two weeks.
Suzie McCallum, 37, became the second suspect charged under the law that carries up to twenty years behind bars. Police say she provided a single methadone wafer to her boyfriend Brian Wells.
It happened at McCallum's Burlington condo. Wells was a recovering heroin addict and he had met McCallum at a narcotics anonymous meeting.
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A New York man was sentenced to five years and 10 months
in prison on cocaine charges Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington.
Ruark Melendez, 25, of Flushing, N.Y., was arrested in January on charges of possessing crack with the intent to distribute, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported. South Burlington Police and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency found drug paraphernalia along with heroin and cocaine at a South Burlington hotel room where Melendez was staying, according to court documents. Also arrested was 21-year-old Laura Cousens of Burlington. Cousens is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 4
Upon his release, Melendez will be on federal supervised release for three years.
A Winooski couple has been charged with running a million
dollar indoor marijuana growing operation in their young child's bedroom. Acting on a tip given to Williston Police, Chittenden County police agencies obtained a search warrant for an apartment at 41 Bellevue Street in Winooski. Authorities seized 466 immature pot plants, indoor growing apparatus, a loaded .22 calibre handgun, and bags of prescription drugs, according to police.
"Each plant, according to the federal authorities, is expected to produce about a kilo," said Williston Police Chief Ozzie Glidden.
"Four-hundred sixty plants could produce almost a million dollars, over ,000 and that could be done about every 90 days," he added.
Police say many of the pot plants were found in the bedroom of the four-year-old daughter of the couple residing in the apartment, Amos Palmer, 28, and Ricki Vanzile, 26.
The couple was cited to appear in Vermont District Court next month for felony possession and cultivation of marijuana. However, the investigation continues,
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Annual Pot Smoke Out Event is Under Attack at UVM.
It's almost become a rite of Spring at UVM. Every April 20th, students and others openly smoke marijuana in front of the school's library. ... Some students...believe the observance gives the school a black eye. That's why the student government association is trying to force the smokers out this year.
The S.G.A. is planning the schools first annual drug free Spring Fest to coincide with the 4/20 smoke out. Concerts, a rock climbing wall, and booths heralding the accomplishments of students will be set up in the space where the illegal activity usually takes place. ... Simply occupying the space, and changing the days tone may not be enough. Arrests at the pot smoking events have been few and far between in the past, that's because police have walked a fine line between maintaining order and upholding the law. But with a new event comes new expectations.
Any heroin user can tell you this:
Seconds after injecting or inhaling the drug comes a euphoric rush, a sense of well-being. The peak lasts only a few minutes; it brings, too, a warmth on the skin, dry mouth, heaviness in the arms and legs. Then comes a drowsiness, a relaxation; things slow down; breathing slows. This can last three to four hours.
Addiction comes quickly -- it doesn't take many tries. By then the brain has changed, neurologically, molecularly. Tolerance builds. Dependence grabs hold. As soon as the high is over, the craving begins. Going without for even 12 hours brings on the painful alternative -- withdrawal: cramps, nausea, diarrhea, violent muscle spasms, uncontrollable depression. The pain grows worse as time passes. A compulsion takes over to find more, take more.
Benjamin Brooks has pleaded guilty to a drug charge.
Benjamin Brooks, 18, was facing charges of possession of cocaine and marijuana. Police say they seized small quantities of cocaine and marijuana, along with scales, marijuana seeds and other drug paraphernalia back in September.
Brooks was turned in by his parents, who first found the drugs under his bed and called police.
The prosecutor agreed to a plea deal, saying it was best for the community and Brooks.
Mr. Brooks pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana which in exchange he was given a nine month deferred sentence where he will undergo drug counseling and treatment. He will have to do the reparative board and he will have to make his best efforts to attend college or some sort of post graduate year," said Chittenden County Prosecutor T.J. Donovan.
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Burlington police arrested the suspected killer and two other
suspects Friday in connection with a drug-related murder.
In all, five suspects have been arrested and charged since Elrahaine Whitely, 27, of Brooklyn, was fatally shot in his car in an alleyway adjacent to a Pine Street duplex early Wednesday morning.
Whiteley and two partners had driven to the apartment to deliver cocaine ordered over the phone by the residents of one apartment at 157 Pine St. , according to police.
But police say the cocaine order was a set-up . The alleged drug "customers" were waiting with guns to rob the drug dealers, say authorities. When Whitely and his two partners arrived, three men surrounded the car and two of them opened fire with semi-automatic handguns. Police say the robbers pumped at least eight shots into the car, and one of them killed Whitely.
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Chase Ortiz was caught trying to bring pot into jail.
Police said a man recently charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend was caught trying to bring pot into jail.
State Police said Chase Ortiz, 19, arraigned on stalking charges last Tuesday, was also charged with transporting marijuana.
Investigators said he was in possession of marijuana in the booking area of the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington right after his court appearance.
Ortiz allegedly made hundreds of calls to his ex-girfriend, threatening to kill her and her family if she did not reconcile.
In one message, she quoted him saying, "My brother got away with killing someone. If he can get away with it, so can I."
His half-brother is Skylar Underhill-Ortiz. Earlier this month, a jury in Burlington found Underhill-Ortiz not guilty of first-degree murder.
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Criminal drug charges against two New York women were dropped
because the pills they were allegedly selling out of a Colchester hotel were fake Oxycontin tablets, not the real thing, Colchester Police said Friday.
On March 14, workers at Motel 6 called police and said there was a disturbance and possible drug activity in a room at the hotel, police said. Hotel employees said they saw many people walk up to a ground-floor window, stay a short time, then leave without coming into the building.
Officers who went into the hotel room said they found Ashley DeJesus, 19, and Roseann Rosado, 18, both of the Bronx, N.Y. Police said they also discovered what appeared to be 130 Oxycontin tablets and ,200 in cash.
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Darryl Morgan and Amber Ducharme caught in crack bust.
An alleged New York City crack-dealer and his 17-year-old Burlington girlfriend are the latest busts in Winooski's stepped-up squeeze on drug dealers.
Winooski police arrested 22-year-old Darryl Morgan of New York City yesterday after he allegedly made a series of crack-cocaine sales in a sting.
He pled innocent to felony drug conspiracy charges.
Police say Morgan moved to Vermont six months ago and recently started using his local girlfriend -- 17-year-old Amber Ducharme of Burlington -- to make crack deliveries.
Yesterday she pled innocent to four counts of cocaine delivery. Police say Ducharme has co-operated in the investigation. She was released on conditions pending trial.
The judge ordered Darryl Morgan held on bail set at ,000, in part because he is wanted on unrelated charges in New York.
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Drug and alcohol abuse takes a heavy toll,
as evidenced by the number of people in jail who landed there through some form of substance problem. Now a new effort is underway to put a dent in the problem -- even though the attempt may be against the odds.
Gov. Jim Douglas and mayor Peter Clavelle put aside any political differences to embrace a new approach to solving this old problem.
... Alcohol leaves individuals and their families ravaged. The scourge of hard drugs is a growing crisis that seems to defy solutions. Douglas has made this his own priority with a .1 million program aimed at drug and alcohol education, treatment and enforcement. Now the greater Burlington area will launch a series of meetings known as study circles, in which small groups of interested people meet with the goal of coming up with workable solutions.
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Drug theft charges are being dropped
against a South Burlington woman because her alleged victim died.
Thirty-one year old Patricia Brady-Coon pleaded innocent last month to stealing morphine from a terminally ill man in Essex.
Prosecutors say she posed as a visiting nurse to gain access to the man's home and then stole his drugs.
Police say Brady-Coon got the patient's name and address while working as an EMT at Fletcher Allen Health Care.
The man has died of natural causes so prosecutors were forced to drop charges because there is now no complainant, but they say the case is still under investigation.
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Elizabeth Eikenberry
has pleaded guilty to stealing pain killers meant for her elderly patient. Surveillance cameras caught Elizabeth Eikenberry, 57, on the job at the Ethan Allen Residence in Burlington. The video shows Eikenberry drinking oxycodone meant for her 87-year old patient.
Eikenberry was sentenced to six months in jail. She can not practice nursing until her probation is complete.
Emery Corey has been accused of driving his bus while drunk.
Police say 68-year-old Emery Corey, of Williston, drives for the South Burlington School District. A concerned citizen saw Corey's bus parked on the side of Hinesburg Road at 4 p.m. Monday, and then called police. Police went to the area and found discarded liquor bottles.
They located the bus as Corey was parking the vehicle in the bus lot. After speaking with him, the officer suspected Corey was drunk. It's unclear, however, if Corey had been drinking while kids were on the bus.
Corey's blood alcohol content was .06. The legal limit for bus drivers is .04. Police are still investigating the incident.
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Foot soldiers in the war on drugs aren't always undercover police
or armed border agents.
Sometimes it's a hotel housekeeper.
... Last year, rescue workers responded to an 18-year-old woman who had overdosed at the University Inn and Suites in South Burlington. The woman recovered, and helped lead police to the arrest of a man considered to be one of the area's largest heroin dealers. The man had been at the hotel with the young woman.
In February, police arrested two people at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center after allegedly finding 19 grams of crack cocaine, 55 bags of heroin and some unbagged heroin in their room. In June, three men were indicted in federal court for allegedly selling cocaine and ecstasy. Police said they were using a room at the Towne Place Suites in Williston to do some of their business.
... Police rely on hotel workers to keep their eye on what's going on in the hotels. Lots of traffic into a certain room is suspicious.
Four people are now in police custody in connection with a fatal
shooting in Burlington Wednesday morning.
Police say Elrehaine Whitely was shot as he sat in a car in the alley next to a Pine Street apartment building. Police say Whitely and two other men had gone to the building to sell cocaine that had been ordered by young customers living in the apartments rented by Spectrum Youth Services. But police say the young customers instead tried to rob the drug dealers at gunpoint -- and when it was all over at least seven shots had been fired from two handguns -- and Whitely was mortally wounded.
Late Wednesday night police arrested to suspects in connection with the shoot-out. Stephanie Dellavecchio, 18, a resident of the Spectrum apartment, pleaded innocent to assault and robbery and drug conspiracy. Errol Richards, Jr., also 18, pleaded innocent to similar charges.
Thursday afternoon police captured two more suspects. One they have not yet identified. The other is 22-year-old Dan Jones -- another Spectrum Youth Services client.
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Heroin claims woman after 10-year slide into drug abuse.
Five days after Rebekka Dreibelbis died at the age of 24, her parents began cleaning out her apartment. In the bedroom, Rebekka's mother found her daughter's silver baby bracelet in the top of her jewelry box.
Her parents found it almost unbelievable that Rebekka had kept the bracelet through her decadelong struggle with drugs. She kept the jewelry when she could have hocked it for heroin. She never let go of this small reminder of the comfortable life and loving family she left behind.
Rebekka lost her battle with alcohol, marijuana, LSD, prescription medication and heroin. She died of a suspected heroin overdose March 15 in her apartment on North Winooski Avenue in Burlington.
John Hamilton is facing Crack Cocaine Charges.
A man from Winooski faces federal crack cocaine dealing charges.
Police say they've been investigating 40-year-old John Hamilton since last spring. They arrested him in South Burlington on Friday, and found 10 grams of cocaine, 24 grams of crack cocaine plus ,000 in cash.
Hamilton faces the charge of possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base, or crack cocaine. If convicted, he faces between five and 40 years in prison and a fine of up to million.
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John Hawley was arrested on charges of assault and robbery,
A 20-year-old Milton man, who reportedly told police he had a drug problem, was arrested Saturday afternoon in connection with an armed robbery and two attempted robberies Friday in Colchester.
Colchester police Detective Sgt. Charles Cole said John Hawley was arrested about 4 p.m. when he went to Colchester police headquarters to talk about what he thought was an unrelated matter.
Hawley will be arraigned Monday morning on charges of assault and robbery, attempted assault and robbery, and attempted robbery, Cole said. He was expected to be lodged Saturday night at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington.
Friday, Colchester police reported that a man brandishing a knife demanded money at the Bayside Triple M Deli on Heineberg Drive at about 5 p.m. The clerk reportedly fled and no money was taken.
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Lee Anne Billings, 39, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court
in Burlington to one count of allowing Champion's Tavern to be used for drug dealing between late 2000 and the spring of 2001. She was originally charged with eight counts stemming from alleged cocaine and heroin dealing at Champion's and at the Steer & Stein Pub in Burlington, which Billings also owned.
Billings agreed in the plea deal to cooperate with investigators in other cases and testify at other trials if necessary.
Billings is the last of nine co-defendants to either plead guilty or agree to plead guilty, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney James Gelber. A sentencing hearing has not been scheduled. Billings was released on conditions until the sentencing.
Police are still counting,
but initial reports indicate at least two dozen motorists were arrested for drunk driving on New Year's Eve in Vermont.
At least half of the DUI arrests came in Chittenden County where police set up sobriety checkpoints at several locations throughout the evening. Police say seven inebriated drivers were caught during checkpoint stops despite weeks of publicity warning motorists that police would be out in force on New Years Eve.
"To make sure people know that we're out here, that on New Year's Eve especially. We call it amateur night when it comes to drunk drivers because, if you're going out and drinking and driving on New Year's Eve, you should get caught. I mean, that's just stupid," said Bill Wolfe of the Winooski Police.
Burlington police say their first DWI arrest of the New Year came just before 2 A.M. when a New Jersey college student swerved in his jeep and nearly slammed head-on into a Burlington police cruiser.
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Police have arrested a Burlington couple and taken two other men
into custody in connection with the murder of 27-year old Elrehaine Whitely.
18-year-old Stephanie Dellavecchio hid behind friends and covered her face with her hands and a hood.
Wednesday police arrested the Burlington teen and her 18-year-old boyfriend Errol Richards.
The couple is charged with conspiring to purchase drugs and involvement in an attempted assault and robbery.
By 6PM two more men taken into custody, including 22-year-old Daniel Jones.
Police reported him missing from a work fourlough program, earlier in the day.
The arrests came quickly, less than two days after the alleged crimes that apparently led to the murder of 27-year-old Elrehaine Whitely.
Police in Burlington have seized nearly ,000 cash
in connection with a suspected cocaine dealer.
Dannis Hackney of Winooski will appear in court Tuesday for possession of cocaine. Burlington Police found the drugs and over ,000 in a safe in a Winooski apartment. The amount of cash is about 30 times the average seized in local drug busts.
"Generally, people involved in drug dealing activities amass their proceeds from their drug business, they can't deposit them in banks and write checks, so they hold onto the money until they go to a source city, where the only way of getting drugs is U.S. currency on hand," Detective Shawn Burke of the Burlington Police Department told Channel 3 News.
Investigators were led to Hackney by a tip from his own father, Daryl James. Last week, Winooski Police arrested James for an outstanding bail charge. Last year, James was shot and wounded by two Massachusetts men during a home invasion and robbery. At the time, James said he didn't know why the robbers targeted him,
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Police in Williston said a woman crashed into propane tanks at the Korner
Kwik Stop Tuesday.
Police said Lynn Gravel, of Hardwick, had a blood alcohol level at nearly four times the legal limit when she hit the building. Gravel hit the building so hard that items in the store were knocked off their shelves, police said.
Gravel was arrrested on DUI charges after police determined she had driven to Williston from Hardwick.
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Police raided a South Burlington motel early Monday morning night
and made several arrests in connection with a suspected New York City-based cocaine ring.
It is the latest chapter in a drug investigation that began with a routine arrest in Winooski that has now become that city's biggest drug case in years, according to police.
For months police in Chittenden County have warned that cocaine trafficking is making a dramatic comeback.
Winooski police say they've been so busy with coke cases they have already run out of drug-investigation money just halfway through the year.
Law enforcement officers from Winooski, Essex, South Burlington, the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms raided a second-floor room at the University Inn.
Police say they found seven people in the room, as well as a large amount of cash, 51 grams of crack cocaine, and firearms.
Police searched a home on Cedar Street early in the morning.
Police searched a home on Cedar Street early in the morning. Police said they arrested Richard Waite, 42, and his wife, Theresa Waite, 40, and cited them with sale and delivery of heroin. Michelle Foy, 20, was arrested on an outstanding federal warrant for sale of heroin. Two juveniles were taking into protective custody, police said.
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Repeat DUI offender has been ordered held after a fatal wreck.
Repeat DUI Offender is being Held After Fatal Crash
A man accused of driving drunk in a crash that killed a teenager has been ordered held after pleading not guilty.
Shawn Burritt, 32, of Jericho, was on probation for an earlier drunken driving conviction Saturday when his car -- going south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 89 -- hit another vehicle, killing rear-seat passenger Nicolas Fournier, 18, of West Swanton, police said.
Police said Burritt took off running after he plowed into the teen's Volvo around 12:30 a.m. near Colchester.
Chittenden County State's Attorney T.J. Donovan said he doesn't know why Burritt was behind the wheel when his driver's license had been suspended for life.
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Sex Offender, David Barnes, Drove to State Police Barracks drunk.
Police say a South Burlington man was drunk when he drove himself to the State Police Barracks in Williston. Troopers say David Barnes, 65, went to the barracks to update his photo for the Sex Offender Registry. But when he got there, police thought he was drunk and gave him a breath test. They say his sample came back nearly twice the legal limit, so they arrested him for drunk driving.
Shawn Burritt,
32, was driving in the wrong lane on Interstate 89 in Colchester when he slammed into a car carrying five teenagers a little after 12:30 a.m. Saturday. Four of the boys were only shaken up but Nicolas Fournier, 18, of Swanton, who was sitting in the back seat died of massive internal injuries.
Police say they found Burritt walking away from the crash and he appeared drunk. Burritt refused to take a breath test-- but police say he confessed he had been drinking at a Colchester bar.
"He said he'd been drinking at the Spanked Puppy, that he'd had 8 to 9 beers, left the bar, went to an intersection, made the turn, and the next thing you know cars were coming at him," said Chittenden Deputy Prosecutor Paul Finnerty.
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Shawn Burritt, 32, of Jericho
accused of driving drunk in an accident that killed a teenager has been ordered held after pleading not guilty.
Burritt was on probation for an earlier drunken driving conviction Saturday when his car — going south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 89 — hit another vehicle, killing rear-seat passenger Nicolas Fournier, 18, of West Swanton, police said.
Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan says he doesn’t know why Burritt was behind the wheel when his driver’s license had been suspended for life.
Burritt is charged with drunken driving, gross negligent operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of a fatal accident, operating while under suspension for DUI and violating the conditions of his release.
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Shawn Gibson was sentenced to 25 years for a heroin-linked death
of Jill McCarthy's after he pleaded guilty in federal court to giving his friend the heroin that killed her on July 31, 2001.
On the seven related counts, Sessions sentenced Gibson to serve 20 years, which will run at the same time as the longer term. Gibson will follow his jail term with six years of supervised release, Sessions ordered. There is no possibility of parole.
A Family home is at stake in a drug case. Wayne and Ruby Gibson could lose the house they've owned for 25 years if federal prosecutors can show that their son was dealing drugs out of his bedroom in the South Burlington residence. Along with Gibson's criminal indictment, prosecutors filed civil papers seeking to seize the Gibsons' home.
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South Burlington police have reopened a 3 1/2-year-old case
of a missing man, and the family of the man has offered a reward for information about his whereabouts.
Michael R. Dumont was last seen on the evening of Nov. 21, 2004, when he was visiting a friend's house in South Burlington in the company of his immediate family, police said. Dumont received a phone call and told his family he had to leave to meet someone. He left, did not return home that night, and has not been heard from since.
According to records in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Michael Dumont pleaded guilty in 1986 to two federal charges: cocaine possession with intent to distribute and receipt of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was deemed a felon because of a 1983 state conviction for selling cocaine. A Free Press news story on the federal sentencing in 1986 quoted U.S. District Judge Albert W. Coffin as calling Dumont, then 32, "a major contributor to the cocaine problem in this area."
Dumont was sentenced to 10 years in prison....
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Stacey McGraw, 25, was found dead in a senior housing project
on East Spring St. in Winooski Thursday. The young mother was in the apartment of Arnold Sweeney, 67. Police have arrested Sweeney, and say the elderly man was dealing drugs from the housing project. Neighbors say they never suspected the older man was doing anything wrong.
Authorities believe McGraw may have died of a cocaine overdose-- based on what they found in the apartment, and what Sweeney told them.
Sweeney is in jail pending arraignment Monday on the cocaine dealing charges. But police say it will take at least two weeks to get the test results to determine whether they can charge Sweeney with drug-related manslaughter.
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Stephen J. Thompson has been sentenced to 8 years
in federal prison for two armed robberies in which drugs were stolen from pharmacies.
Authorities said Stephen J. Thompson used a BB gun that looked like a semiautomatic pistol when he held up the Rite Aid pharmacy on North Avenue in Burlington in May of 2006, and McGregor's Pharmacy in South Hero the following month.
He was charged with stealing Oxycontin and other opiate-based prescription drugs.
Thompson had argued for a reduced sentence, saying he had become addicted to opiates following a farm injury in 2001. Judge William Sessions rejected that argument.
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Steven O'Reilly and Raymond Stenson could be facing lengthy prison
sentences after being charged with dealing cocaine.
Steven O'Reilly, 22, and Raymond Stenson, 22, could each get up to 40 years in prison if they're found guilty. O'Reilly is a St. Michael's College student and Stenson is a Champlain College student.
Another Champlain College student, 20-year-old Christopher Wessling, was charged with stashing drugs for the two in his South Willard St. apartment. He could face 20 years in prison if convicted.
The University of Vermont school newspaper, The Cynic,
unofficially surveyed some students. Respondents report drinking alcohol at least twice a week and 57% admit trying drugs like heroin, cocaine and ecstacy. The newspaper polled 180 students, just a sample of the 7200 undergraduates on campus.
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The University of Vermont sends more students to campus judicial
review for drug violations than any other four-year college in the country, according to a ranking of government numbers to be published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The same ranking showed UVM is second when it comes to referring liquor violations to campus judicial review. In both cases,
UVM far outpaces much larger schools.
The numbers were part of a campus crime story posted Thursday at The Chronicle's Web site. The national weekly compiled
rankings from a data base of numbers that colleges are required by law to provide to the U.S. Department of Education. A total of 6,269 institutions reported information.
University leaders viewed the story as vindication of their enforcement efforts and not a sign that UVM has a disproportionately large drinking and drug problem.
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Stacey Parnitzke, 44, was arrested Friday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault on a child and jailed for lack of ,000 bail.
Her former boyfriend, Shane E. Casey, 38, who is described in court papers as a transient, also was charged.
The two were arrested based in part on entries in the child's diary.
The case came about after the 11-year-old girl, who has been living with her father in California for the last year and a half, told him in October that while she was living with Parnitzke, her mother would bring home men and allow them to sexually assault her.