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Middlebury Police Log: Bristol woman cited for DUI after accident

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Halee Ross, 23, of Bristol for driving under the influence, following their investigation of a crash at the intersection of Foot Street and Quarry Road on Dec. 16. Police said they measured Ross’s blood-alcohol content at 0.101%; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

In addition to conducting daily patrols of the Bakery Lane area to check on houseless people camping under the Cross Street Bridge, Middlebury police last week:

• Took a report of a potential internet scam on Dec. 11.

• Investigated an alleged road rage complaint in the Court Street area on Dec. 11.

• Received a report that someone had painted slurs on the walking bridge off Creek Road on Dec. 11. Police also found a vandalized trash can in that area.

• Responded to a complaint of a drunken person allegedly trying to steal alcohol from a Court Street convenience store on Dec. 11.

• Enforced Middlebury overnight winter parking ban in the downtown area on Dec. 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16.

• Arrested Cassandra Chasse, 32, of Middlebury on an active in-state arrest warrant, at the intersection of Cross Street and Bakery Lane on Dec. 12. Police said she was released on citation.

• Received a report that a package had been stolen from in front of a Maple Street building on Dec. 12.

• Were informed on Dec. 12 that graffiti had been spray painted under the Cross Street Bridge.

• Assisted a person having a mental health crisis on Porter Hospital campus on Dec. 12.

• Reunited a person with their lost phone on Dec. 12.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS (MREMS) as rescue workers evaluated a suicidal woman in the Elm Street area on Dec. 13.

• Assisted a Maple Street restaurant with an agitated man who had refused to leave the premises on Dec. 13.

• Helped a disabled man who had been walking along Court Street Extension on Dec. 13.

• Assisted two motorists as they changed a flat tire on Route 7 South on Dec. 14.

• Helped a Good Samaritan find the owner of a lost wallet on Dec. 14.

• Assisted a Washington Street business with an unwanted person on Dec. 14.

• On Dec. 14, cited Tyler Deveau, 22, for petit larceny, following a police investigation of theft “and other suspicious circumstances” at the state offices within the South Village Green development off Court Street.

• Assisted MREMS in evaluating a person who had been experiencing mental health issues at the Abby Pond Trailhead on Dec. 14.

• Responded, with MREMS, to a report of a person who had passed out in their vehicle parked off East Main Street on Dec. 15.

• Cautioned a person who had reportedly been driving unsafely on Case Street on Dec. 15.

• Served a no-trespass order on a person who had refused to leave a Washington Street business on Dec. 15.

• Helped evacuate a Seminary Street apartment that had filled with smoke at around 10:50 p.m. on Dec. 16.

• Issued court diversion paperwork to a youth who was the subject of an underage drinking complaint in the Jackson Lane area on Dec. 16.

• Assisted Middlebury firefighters investigating a report of smoke in the Otterside Court area on Dec. 16.

• Set up a command post in the Marble Works complex during the Dec. 16 “Very Merry Middlebury” celebration and handed out free popcorn as part of ongoing community outreach efforts.

• Responded multiple times — along with the Middlebury and Bristol ambulance teams — to the Abbey Pond Road area on a report of a person having a mental health crisis.

• Assisted an Exchange Street business with an unhappy customer on Dec. 17.

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