Vergennes Police Log: Fatal accident at Feed Commodities

Vergennes police, firefighters and the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad on March 26 to a fatal workplace accident on Meigs Road in Vergennes.

Vergennes police last week — for the fourth time in recent weeks — arrested Jacob D. Burmania, 30, of Waltham twice and cited him into court to answer to multiple citations for burglary, unlawful mischief and violating conditions of release.

Vergennes police on Sunday, March 9, cited a Panton man for driving without an ignition interlock device. Police also ticketed Travis Rivers, 51, of Panton for driving with a suspended license following a traffic stop on Panton Road.

Vergennes police on March 1 arrested a Waltham man for the second time in eight days and again charged him with number of offenses, including burglary and grand larceny.

Vergennes police after an investigation done with cooperation of Vermont State Police made an arrest on Feb. 20 in one in the series of property crimes recently committed in and near the city.

Vergennes police took reports of almost a dozen break-ins or attempted break-ins into vehicles parked around the city during the night of Feb. 14, including the theft of a firearm from a car parked on Prospect Street.

Vergennes police are investigating a number of burglaries and attempted burglaries around the city last week; cash was stolen during two of them.

On Jan. 30 Vergennes police responded to a reported fight between two construction crews at the downtown Vergennes Green construction site.

Vergennes police are looking into the repeat theft of an American flag stolen from the porch of a South Maple Street home.

Charges are pending against a woman who fled from a Green Street encounter on Friday, Jan. 17, with Vergennes police and allegedly led them on a car chase that police abandoned because of safety concerns.

Vergennes police on Jan. 7 issued multiple citations to a St. Albans man after conducting an investigation that followed receiving a report from a South Water Street resident of fraudulent bank withdrawals totaling $9,316.

Vergennes police were recently investigating one case of alleged fraud reported by a city resident when they came across a separate case in which they found a motorcycle at a Bristol residence they said was apparently stolen from a Brandon resident. 

On Dec. 23, Vergennes police summoned a Salisbury man to participate in the Addison County Restorative Justice Program in order to answer to the charge of disturbing the peace by electronic means.

Vergennes police ended up helping a student who was reported to have left their school at about 12:23 p.m. on Dec. 16 amid “concerns for her well-being” among the officials and teachers who helped find her.

Vergennes police were busy last week spreading the word about the new Vergennes winter parking law, and then enforcing it over the weekend.