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Middlebury Police Log: Police investigate fraud and retail theft

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police launched an investigation into an alleged felony fraud and retail theft at a Foote Street location on Dec. 12.

In other action last week, Middlebury police enforced the town’s overnight winter parking ban downtown on Dec. 9, 11, 12, 13 and 16. Officers also:

• Responded to the report of a man sleeping inside Hannaford Supermarket on Dec. 9.

• Responded to a report of a truck towing a sled on Three Mile Bridge Road on Dec. 9.

• Investigated a report of two people driving erratically on Route 7 South on Dec. 10, trying to drive each other off the road. Police said they were unable to locate the vehicles.

• Were asked by Hannaford Supermarket officials to issue a no-trespass order on a woman who they said had been rude to staff on Dec. 10.

• Responded to a reported vehicle-versus-deer collision on Exchange Street on Dec. 10. Police said they euthanized and removed the injured deer.

• Served a temporary restraining order on a person in the Bakery Lane area on Dec. 10.

• Received a report about a houseless person trying to sleep in a Main Street apartment building on Dec. 10.

• Monitored area roadways adjacent to Otter Creek to watch for potential signs of flooding on Dec. 11.

• Responded to a trespassing complaint in the Buttolph Drive area on Dec. 11.

• Checked on the welfare of a person in the South Village Green neighborhood on Dec. 11.

• Investigated a hit-and-run accident involving two vehicles in an Exchange Street parking lot on Dec. 11.

• Responded to a “juvenile problem” at Mary Hogan Elementary School on Dec. 11.

• Assisted with a landlord-tenant disputes in the Cedar Court and North Pleasant Street area on Dec. 11.

• Responded to a report of an intoxicated man lying face-down on the sidewalk near the intersection of Brookside Drive and Woodland Park on Dec. 12.

• Assisted a driver whose vehicle had been leaking a significant amount of gasoline on Academy Street on Dec. 12.

• Responded to a report of someone driving erratically on Court Street on Dec. 12.

• Responded to a report of a drunken man in a wheelchair causing a disturbance in a Court Street business on Dec. 12.

• Assisted a person who had gotten locked out of their vehicle on Court Street on Dec. 12.

• Received two abandoned bikes on Dec. 12.

• Helped an East Main Street resident retrieve a runaway dog on Dec. 12.

• Assisted Vermont State Police with a reported domestic dispute in Waltham on Dec. 12.

• Searched in vain on Dec. 13 for a reckless driver on Route 7 South, near Plains Road.

• Assisted Vermont State Police at the scene of an accident on Route 125 in Ripton on Dec. 13.

• Cited Patrick L. Cota, 32, of Bristol for driving with a criminally suspended license on Seminary Street Extension on Dec. 13.

• Assisted operators of an Exchange Street business who reported receiving online threats on Dec. 13.

• Investigated a report of someone allegedly driving a vehicle at a Middlebury College Public Safety officer on Hepburn Road on Dec. 13.

• Searched in vain for a man who had been observed at 11:15 p.m. “behaving in a furtive manner” on Middlebury College campus on Dec. 14.

• Responded to the Halladay Road area on Dec. 14 to investigate a reported traffic hazard

• Checked on the welfare of a Macintyre Lane resident on Dec. 14.

• Investigated a disorderly conduct complaint at an East Main Street apartment building on Dec. 14.

• Participated in a Cookies and Milk with Santa activity at Aubuchon Hardware.

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