Police investigate harassment of migrant workers
An activist group alleges that a group of people surrounded farmworkers’ homes in Addison County, shouting insults and firing guns. Migrant Justice has called on police to investigate. Following...
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Burlington man charged with sending fake tip to ICE
A 23-year-old Burlington man is behind bars on allegations of filing a fake claim on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tip line. Cole Swarkowski wrote the online complaint claiming he...
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In federal lawsuit, DCF accused of unlawful family separation
DCF Commissioner Ken Schatz. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger The Vermont Department for Children and Families has been accused of unlawful family separation in a lawsuit filed in federal court. The...
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Man whose ’06 sex case led to uproar reaches deal on child porn charge
A convicted sex offender whose 60-day jail sentence in a child sex abuse case more than a decade ago sparked a national outcry has reached a plea agreement on a new child porn charge. Mark Hulett,...
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Man accused of rampage through Burke, days after a 26-mile police chase
John Sheehy was charged in connection with a high-speed chase that began in Lyndon. Vermont State Police photo John Sheehy ran seven stop signs and a red light, hit a cat and nearly crashed head-on...
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Trooper cleared of charges in Quechee shooting
A Vermont State Police trooper who hit a Quechee man with buckshot in May has been cleared by the Vermont Attorney General. Trooper Eric Vitali, Westminster Barracks. Hired July 11, 2005. Vermont...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Different sets of rules for different kinds of records
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. Oblak v. University of Vermont Police Services, 2019 VT 56 This case is sort of a go-with to In re: Affidavit of Probable...
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Montpelier state offices lockdown lifted after report of armed man
The Vermont State Police are assisting the Montpelier Police Department in responding to a report of an armed man at a state office building Friday. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger This post was...
View ArticleBarre man accused of embezzling from VTrans
A Barre man was accused Friday of embezzling almost $1,000 from the Agency of Transportation, according to a Vermont State Police press release. John Johnson, 73, is facing one count of embezzlement,...
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Should police announce all arrests? Panel hears public release debate
Col. Matthew Birmingham, director of the Vermont State Police, addresses a press conference in 2018. File photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger A joint panel of state lawmakers heard differing views...
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Priest misconduct report prompts questions among survivors
From left, Bishop Christopher Coyne and members of the church’s lay committee, Mike Donoghue and Mark Redmond. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger A Vermont Catholic Church report revealing the names of...
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DOC: Vermont inmate dies of apparent suicide in out-of-state prison
A common area for prisoners in the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility. Courtesy photo A Northeast Kingdom man convicted of murder has died of an apparent suicide at a privately run prison in...
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Two armed robberies hit NEK over Labor Day weekend
Police said a man held up the Subway in Lyndonville on Monday. Armed robbers stuck up two Northeast Kingdom businesses over the holiday weekend, according to the Vermont State Police. The first...
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New records: ‘On EB5 you need to recognize Leahy and only Leahy’
Sen. Patrick Leahy speaks at a news conference at the Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington on Friday, June 21, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Before Vermont’s EB-5 immigrant investor program...
View ArticleBridport men charged with vandalism in Addison County
Vermont State Police have arrested three Bridport men for vandalism in connection to incidents on farms in Addison County. State police announced Monday that Christopher Thompson, 26; Christian...
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Slain man’s stepson had gun used in fatal Hinesburg shooting
Kory Lee George appears in a WPTZ video during a 2007 arraignment for assault and robbery in Burlington. BURLINGTON — The stepson of a man shot and killed earlier this summer at a trailhead in...
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Days after Montpelier lockdown, no updates on police investigation
A Vermont State Police trooper on State Street during the lockdown at the Capitol Complex on Aug. 30. Photo by Kit Norton/VTDigger This post was updated at 5:29 p.m. to include comments from Gov. Phil...
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Border Patrol running immigration checkpoint on I-89 in Lebanon, NH
Border Patrol agents stop traffic along I-89 south in Lebanon, N.H., on Thursday. Agents were stopping cars and asking occupants if they were U.S. citizens. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley News...
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Essex County camps destroyed by ‘suspicious’ fires
The fire that destroyed this Avery’s Gore camp was reported to police on Sept. 1. Vermont State Police photo State police are investigating a pair of “suspicious” fires that burned down two camps...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Lawyer for kids appeals order for them to stay in DCF custody
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by SCOV Law editor Andrew Delaney. In re C.P., 2019 VT 62 (mem.) Sometimes, an appeal isn’t complete enough for SCOV to do anything but dismiss the...
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