Crime
Vermont State Police Log for Jun. 5
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police implicated a Waltham man in crimes twice in the past week.
At around 9 a.m. on May 27, troopers went to Pine Oak Park in Waltham to check out an overnight theft from a vehicle parked outside a home there. As police explain it, on the previous evening at around 8 p.m., Scott Tower, 28, of Waltham got into a car owned by Lonie Parker and stole a large sum of cash.
Police allege that Parker then vandalized someone’s vehicle and threatened Tower.
On May 29, Tower and Parker separately turned themselves into state police, who cited Tower for grand larceny and cited Parker for criminal threatening and unlawful mischief. They are both due in court July 7 to answer the charges.
Later that week, Parker found himself in hot water again. State police were told about threats being made in a separate incident involving Parker. Troopers say that Parker and Thomas George, 30, of Shelburne spoke on the phone on the evening of May 29 and both threatened to inflict injury on the other. Both Parker and George were cited for disturbing the peace via telephone. Their court date is July 7.
In a separate case of a man apparently acting violently toward another man, troopers checked out a May 27 report of an assault in Bristol. After investigating the incident on Lower Notch Road, state police said they determined that Steven A. Hutchinson, 65, of Bristol had assaulted a 44-year-old man sometime that afternoon. Police cited Hutchinson for simple assault.
In the past week, state police also dealt with a trio of drunken driving cases that resulted in four citations for driving under the influence, or DUI.
In the first, troopers on May 31 at just before 5 a.m. were called to a one-car crash on Hollow Road near Weisenbach Road in Monkton. Police report that John Mcevilla, 28, of Greenfield, Mass., was driving a 2012 Toyota Sienna eastbound on a curve when the car left the eastbound lane and struck a tree. Police spoke with Mcevilla, who was uninjured, and ultimately cited him for DUI. They also issued him a traffic ticket that carries a $220 fine and two points on his driver’s license.
Mcevilla was released to a sober adult with a citation to answer the charges in Addison County Superior Court, Criminal Division.
The second case was on June 1 when, at around 7 p.m., a 2020 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Dennis Doyle, 69, of East Newport, N.Y., crashed on Route 17 near the foot of the Lake Champlain Bridge in Addison. Police screened Doyle and cited him for DUI.
Joseph Mullen, 54, of Northport, N.Y., was not involved in the motorcycle crash, but apparently, he was driving by and stopped at the crash scene. While speaking with Mullen, troopers detected indicators of impairment. They cited Mullen for DUI-Refusal.
Finally, on June 2 at 10 minutes before 5 p.m., state police responded to a one-car crash at the intersection Lake Road and Arnold Bay Road in Panton. Police took Melissa Sorelle, 38, of Ferrisburgh to the New Haven barracks for processing, and officers allege she damaged equipment there. Troopers ended up citing Sorelle for DUI and unlawful mischief.
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