MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police were part of a large contingent of area law enforcement to respond to Porter Medical Center campus at around 8 p.m. on this past Friday, Aug. 30, after a report of a disorderly man with a firearm in the hospital parking lot.

Police said they found an armed Brian Dodds, 38, of Bristol refusing to allow several family members to exit their vehicle. Police said they were eventually able to help family members get out of the vehicle and took Dodds “into custody without injury.”

Middlebury police were assisted at the scene by Vermont State Police, Bristol police and the Addison County Sheriff’s Department.

Later that evening, at around 11:45 p.m., police said they were called back to Porter on a report of a “patient actively assaulting several staff members” at the hospital. Police said they found Dodds in a physical altercation with hospital staff when they arrived on scene. Police said they were able to gain control over Dodds and helped staff return him to his room, where he was restrained. As a result of this incident, police said they cited Dodds for aggravated assault, simple assault, two counts of assault on a healthcare worker, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

In addition to conducting daily foot patrols downtown to monitor members of the local houseless community, Middlebury police last week:

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS (MREMS) on a medical call to the Washington Street area on Aug. 26.

• Investigated a theft complaint at Aubuchon Hardware off Route 7 South on Aug. 26.

• Gave a ride to a stranded patient who had been discharged from Porter Hospital on Aug. 26.

• Checked on the welfare of a woman who was experiencing a mental health crisis in the Washington Street area on Aug. 26.

• Responded to a reported disturbance in the Bakery Lane area on Aug. 27. Police said one of the people involved was taken into protective custody due to intoxication and was sent to Rutland for detox services.

• Responded to a report of people yelling behind the Champlain Farms store off Mary Hogan Drive on Aug. 27.

• Checked on the welfare of a child in the South Village Green neighborhood on Aug. 27.

• Helped Porter Hospital officials destroy drug paraphernalia on Aug. 27.

• Assisted Mary Hogan Elementary School staff with a “juvenile problem” on Aug. 27.

• Assisted MREMS with a drunken person on Main Street on Aug. 27.

• Assisted MREMS on a service call to a Case Street address on Aug. 28.

• Checked on the welfare of an elderly couple in the Ossie Road area on Aug. 28.

• Responded to a report of someone using boulders to block the parking lot at the Abbey Pond trailhead on Aug. 28.

• Helped Middlebury College Public Safety dispose of contraband that had been seized from students on Aug. 28.

• Checked on the welfare of as Shannon Street resident on Aug. 28.

• Checked on the welfare of a person in the Bakery Lane area on Aug. 29.

• Checked on a group of houseless individuals who had gathered on Mary Hogan Drive during the evening of Aug. 29.

• Responded to a report of a shattered glass door on Valley View Drive on Aug. 29.

• Investigated a report of a local juvenile potentially sending inappropriate pictures to another juvenile on Aug. 29.

• Responded to an untimely death report at an Old Pasture Lane home on Aug. 30. Police said the deceased — 89-year-old Jack L. Goodman — had died of natural causes. 

• Responded to a report of people yelling on Mary Hogan Drive during the early evening of Aug. 30.

• Arrested Gabriella Mowry, 27, who is unhoused, for failure to appear on an outstanding warrant.

• Assisted a local woman with a stalking complaint on Aug. 30.

• Calmed an agitated person who was walking on the Cross Street Bridge on Aug. 31.

• Cited Nathan Paquette, 46, of Middlebury with driving under the influence, two counts of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, simple assault, and assault on a protected professional (a heath care worker), following their investigation of a drunken man causing a disturbance and threatening staff at Porter Hospital on Aug. 31.

Police said they measured Paquette’s blood-alcohol content at 0.152%; as a matter of comparison, the legal limit for driving is 0.08%.

• Cited Colleen Tremblay, 54, of Shelburne for driving with a criminally suspended license on Route 7 South on Sept. 1.

• Helped MREMS with a drunken person founding lying on a North Pleasant Street sidewalk on Sept. 1.

• Helped a person who was experiencing a mental health crisis on Abbey Pond Road on Sept. 1.

• Responded to a reported dispute among people in the Bakery Lane area on Sept. 1.

• Escorted two employees of a Main Street business to their vehicles following reports of a customer acting suspiciously at around midnight on Sept. 1.