Sheriff’s log: Deputy talks with kids

An Addison County Sheriff’s Department deputy stopped by a daycare in Middlebury on March 10 and spoke to the kids there. Later in the week, on March 13, a deputy spoke during Career Day activities at Otter Valley Union High School in Brandon.

Vermont is the target of the latest federal probe into Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse.

After he pleaded guilty to two crimes of violence, a Granville man on Monday was told by a judge that he will be spending several years on probation.

Researchers commissioned by the Vermont Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs describe ‘crying, screaming or throwing items in the office” of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos.

A jury trial has tentatively been slated for mid-March in the case of a Middlebury acupuncturist facing a felony lewd & lascivious conduct charge.

Christopher Rantanen, 40, of Brandon, was sentenced to a term of 35 months’ imprisonment. He previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

An alert Vermont state trooper from Addison County, who was on special foot patrol in downtown Burlington this past Friday, is credited with the apprehension of a dangerous Bristol driver.

A Franklin County drug dealer is facing a 20-27 year prison sentence after agreeing to plead guilty to two federal charges stemming from killing another drug dealer in Addison County, court records show.

Vicente De La Cruz-Rodriguez, 28, of New Haven, is being held without bail at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility in Rutland.

Vermont State Police arrested Vicente Delacruz Rodriguez, 28, of New Haven, and charged him with second-degree attempted murder and first-degree aggravated domestic assault.

Vergennes police received two complaints recently of stolen vehicles, but the incidents turned out to have different circumstances.

Vermont State Police said they dealt with two individuals who harmed people in separate incidents early this week.

A Brooklyn, N.Y., man arrested in Maine on a federal firearms offense is wanted on a murder charge in Vermont, stemming from a fatal shooting in June in Leicester. Zaquikon T. Roy, 35, was arrested Aug. 10 in Lewiston, Maine, on a charge of being a felon … (read more)

Middlebury police cited Jacob Burmania, 28, of Middlebury for criminal threatening, on Merchants Row on April 17.

Police cited a minor for allegedly walking out of the Vergennes Maplefields while refusing to pay for goods he had taken off its shelves — twice.