EB-5 investors seek financial docs on Quiros’ children, business partner
Investors in a lawsuit who claim they were defrauded by Jay Peak’s owner Ariel Quiros say they want to look at the financial records of those close to him. Attorneys for investors in the class-action...
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Burwell will get trial date in 2017
Editor’s note: This article by Jordan Cuddemi was first published in the Valley News on Nov. 30, 2016. HARTFORD — An Upper Valley man who is suing two Hartford police officers alleging they used...
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SCOV Law Blog: Felon makes appeal #4 on conviction
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Andrew Delaney. Chandler v. State, 2016 VT 62 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,”...
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President set to sign Leahy-backed criminal justice bill
President Obama is prepared to reauthorize a criminal justice reform law long championed by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy that senators voted to extend on Thursday. The Justice for All Reauthorization Act —...
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Fell attorneys seek mental health records
The U.S. District Court and post office building on West Street in Rutland. Photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDiggerThe defense team for Donald Fell is seeking access to criminal and mental health records they...
View ArticleNew Hampshire man sentenced for bath salts distribution ring
A New Hampshire man convicted of a scheme to distribute a synthetic drug obtained from China was sentenced to six years in federal prison last week. Michael DePalma, 57, was facing charges related to a...
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Report suggests prisoners benefit from extended drug treatment
Inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger Fewer than 2 percent of Vermont prisoners given extended access to prescribed opioid treatment drugs as part of a pilot...
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Investors seek Jay Peak-related brokerage records
Gov. Peter Shumlin, Jay Peak CEO Bill Stenger, Ariel Quiros, the owner of Jay Peak, and his son Ary Quiros at a ribbon cutting. Photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger Attorneys in a class-action lawsuit...
View ArticleTwo found dead in Newbury
Vermont State Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Newbury. Police found the bodies of Kenneth Welch, 80, and Barbara Welch, 76, dead of apparent gunshot wounds at their home Monday...
View ArticleDrug-related infection is found to have killed prisoner
A bacterial infection related to intravenous drug use caused the death of a prisoner last month, according to his death certificate. David Bissonnette, 38, died Nov. 22 at the University of Vermont...
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Jump in domestic assault reports in Rutland spurs speculation
Rutland Police Chief Brian A. Kilcullen outside the police station. File photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDiggerRUTLAND — A sharp increase in the number of reported aggravated assaults and domestic violence...
View ArticleStudent brought gun to school as ‘precaution,’ police say
COLCHESTER — A Colchester High School student brought a gun to school Tuesday that he was carrying “as a precaution” and did not intend to use, according to police. School administrators heard about...
View ArticleBennington man faces new child pornography charges in federal court
BENNINGTON — A Bennington man free under supervised release conditions related to a prior conviction for possession of child pornography has been arrested again on similar charges following an...
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Shumlin offering pardons for marijuana possession convictions
Gov. Peter Shumlin announces Thursday he will consider pardons for those convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger RANDOLPH — In his final weeks in office,...
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AG’s office: Montpelier officials hewed to open meetings law
Montpelier’s mayor and city councilors apparently didn’t violate state law by discussing official business outside a meeting, the Vermont attorney general’s office indicated in a letter Wednesday....
View ArticleAutopsies indicate Newbury couple died of homicide-suicide
(This story is by Jordan Cuddemi, of the Valley News, in which it first appeared.) NEWBURY — A small-town community is reeling after an elderly husband and wife died this week in what police say is an...
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SCOV Law Blog: Defining ‘reasonable doubt’
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Andrew Delaney. State v. Levitt, 2016 VT 60 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr Mr. Levitt got convicted of simple assault and was...
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Garza accused of being ‘mastermind’ in bitcoin fraud scheme
(This article by Bob Audette was first published in the Bennington Banner.) BRATTLEBORO — A local man dismissed from a fraud civil suit is being described by the remaining defendant on the suit as the...
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Quiros sues insurer for $2 million, and counting, in legal fees
Ariel Quiros at a groundbreaking for AnC Bio Vermont in May 2015. File poto by Anne Galloway/VTDiggerJay Peak owner Ariel Quiros is suing his former insurer he claims should cover $2 million in legal...
View ArticleSuspects in chase facing charges in sheriff’s department thefts
The suspects in a high-speed chase through central Vermont are now facing charges of burglarizing the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Vermont State Police say they tried to stop a car Jeremiah...
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