Crime
Middlebury Police Log: Middlebury man cited for DUI
February 6, 2025
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Charles J. Ouellette, 31, of Middlebury for driving under the influence, following a stop on North Branch Road on Jan. 31. Police said they measured Ouellette’s blood-alcohol content at 0.222%; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
- Checked on the welfare of a local man who had shown signs of mental health challenges on Jan. 27.
- Assisted Vermont State Police with an agitated man at a traffic stop on Cady Road on Jan. 27.
- Checked on the welfare of a homeless man tenting off Merchants Row on Jan. 27.
- Cited Tyler D. Baker, 28, for driving under the influence and driving with a criminally suspended license on Court Street on Jan. 28.
- Helped a person contact a local family member on Jan. 28.
- Responded to a report of a person allegedly driving erratically on Route 7 South on Jan. 28.
- Spoke with Jackson Lane residents on Jan. 28 about a recent fight between four neighborhood dogs.
- Served court diversion paperwork on Jan. 28 on a person who had allegedly tried to steal $400 of merchandise from a Court Street store.
- Helped Middlebury Regional EMS (MREMS) with a drunken man on Main Street. Police said MREMS took the man to Porter Hospital.
- Responded on Jan. 28 to a two-vehicle crash on Route 7 South that resulted in one driver being taken to Porter Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
- Responded — with MREMS and firefighters — to a two-vehicle crash on Jan. 28 on Seminary Street that resulted in a person being injured.
- Helped a stranded driver on Route 7 North on Jan. 29.
- Offered the assistance of the department’s police dog, Guinness, to another department on connection with a potential illegal drugs case on Jan. 29.
- Enforced Middlebury’s overnight winter parking ban in the downtown area on Jan. 29, and again on the 31st.
- Cited Tanya M Brace, 35, of Leicester for driving with a suspended license on Route 7 South on Jan. 30
- Received word on Jan. 30 that an Exchange Street storage locker had recently been broken into.
- Checked on the welfare of some Washington Street residents on Jan. 30.
- Cited Pierre A. Laroche, 32, of Salisbury for allegedly violating a restraining order in the Jackson Lane area on Jan. 30.
- Euthanized a sick bear found in the Otter Creek off Creek Road on Jan. 30.
- Checked on the welfare of a person in the Court Street area on Jan. 30.
- Received a report at around 7:26 p.m. on Jan. 31 that a pickup truck driver had driven off the roadway at the intersection of North Pleasant Street and Court Square, striking (and knocking over) a lamp post. Police said the driver didn’t report the collision.
- Received a report on Jan. 31 that someone had rifled through vehicles parked in the Ossie Road area of East Middlebury. Police reported the culprit stole items from at least one vehicle.
- Responded to a report of a U-Haul truck striking a gas pump at a North Pleasant Street filling station on Jan. 31.
- Assisted a local resident with a credit card fraud case on Court Street on Jan. 31.
- Checked the welfare of a man living in a tent off Merchants Row during frigid temperatures on Jan. 31 and Feb. 2.
- Gave a courtesy ride to a stranded patient who had been discharged from Porter Hospital on Feb. 1.
- Responded to a parking complaint from a business owner on College Street on Feb. 1.
- Prevented the fraudulent use of a credit card at a Washington Street business on Feb. 1.
- Responded to a reported traffic hazard at the intersection of Exchange Street and Route 7 on Feb. 1.
- Reunited a local family with their lost pet on Feb. 1.
- Allowed a stranded woman, who had been discharged from Porter Hospital without transportation at 3 a.m. on Feb. 1, to sleep the remainder of the night on a cot in the Middlebury PD lobby during a snowstorm.
- Assisted MREMS in responding to a report of a man having a medical crisis on Danyow Drive on Feb. 2.
- Assisted MREMS at a medical call on Grand View Road on Feb. 2.
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