Lathrop facing embezzlement charges

A Bristol woman is facing 19 federal felony fraud and tax charges in connection with a more than $700,000 embezzlement from a family-owned wood-logging and wood-chipping company in Addison County, court records show.

An undocumented immigrant from Addison County has been indicted by a federal grand jury for helping eight other undocumented Mexicans after they crossed the international boundary into Franklin County, federal court records show.

A Ticonderoga, N.Y., man, who police say was impaired by multiple drugs when he crossed the centerline on Route 22A in Addison and killed a South Burlington woman in a head-on car crash three years ago, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

BURLINGTON — Attorneys working on business involving real estate transactions are suing nine Vermont municipalities, including the Addison County towns of Lincoln and Whiting, for prohibiting or restricting access to public government records by claiming … (read more)

BURLINGTON — The mastermind behind a major heroin trafficking conspiracy in Addison County, according to federal authorities, is being held without bail pending a hearing in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Friday. Kevin D. Williams, 32, of Patterson, … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — A Middlebury College student has filed a federal lawsuit against his school for failing to provide refunds on tuition and fees after the campus was shut down last spring due to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Henry Mooers, a senior from Norwell … (read more)

BURLINGTON — An Addison County man, who officials say shot his girlfriend during a picnic in Hancock in August, late last week pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Brian Warner, 47, has felony co … (read more)

MONKTON — Vermont State Police will not say what, if any, discipline the department has imposed on a lieutenant and special teams commander stopped for excessive speeding and then spun his tires as he resumed his travels, according to officials. It’s the … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — Vermont’s Chief Medical Examiner has ruled that the death of a New York man struck by a tanker truck in New Haven last month was a suicide. Marcin J. Kosz, 40, of Lake George, N.Y., died instantly when struck by the truck on Route 7 near Town … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — Vermont’s Chief Medical Examiner has ruled that the death of a New York man struck by a tanker truck in New Haven last month was a suicide. Marcin J. Kosz, 40, of Lake George, N.Y., died instantly when struck by the truck on Route 7 near Town … (read more)

BURLINGTON –— A former Addison County resident, whose multi-state armed robbery spree ended in Brattleboro in 2018 when police shot him multiple times, has been sentenced to just over six years in federal prison for using a gun for three stick ups at Verm … (read more)

BURLINGTON — A gun unlawfully purchased by a Shoreham man at an Addison County sports store and later reported stolen was used in at least two shootings in Jersey City, N.J., federal court records in Vermont show. Travis Norris, 31, is facing a two felony … (read more)

BURLINGTON — A former Bristol woman who was charged with three unrelated embezzlements over seven years has admitted she violated her federal supervised release conditions. Billie Laflam Preston appeared in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Monday, Nov … (read more)

BURLINGTON — A Houston, Texas, man, who officials said faked being a doctor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center so he could do intimate exams on Middlebury College female students, has been found guilty in federal court for possession of child pornograp … (read more)

BURLINGTON — An illegal immigrant from Mexico, who was caught last month for the seventh time for being unlawfully in the United States, has been sentenced by a federal judge to time served and will be deported again. Floriberto Gomez-Garfias was arrested … (read more)