Vermont State Police Log: DUI cases keeping police on their toes

Wednesday last week — July 26 — was kind of a busy day for Vermont State Police dealing with people allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and other intoxicants. 

A Shoreham man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Orwell last week.

Vermont State Police, along with the state Department of Motor Vehicles Enforcement & Safety Division recently announced that they had concluded their investigation into a June 1 fire that destroyed a natural-gas tanker truck and damaged a portion of Rout … (read more)

Vermont State Police got a report of a family disturbance at a home on Fern Lake Road in Leicester on June 24 at a few minutes before 10 p.m.

Vermont State Police reported two encounters with a Leicester man last week.

In the past week, Vermont State Police revisited and, in some cases, wrapped up investigations begun in previous weeks.

Deaths and fires mixed in with other alleged illegal activity to make it quite a busy week for Vermont State Police operating out of the New Haven barracks.

On May 24, after the deadline for the last print edition of the Independent, Vermont State Police identified the driver who was killed in a May 19 crash in Ferrisburgh.

Troopers report that a 2012 Subaru Impreza was traveling southbound on Route 7 near Dakin Farm at around 12:12 a.m. when it crossed over into the northbound lane and crashed into a 2016 Volvo VNL tractor-trailer hauling a load of empty kegs to Shelburne.

The most serious criminal allegation leveled by troopers at the New Haven barracks of the Vermont State Police between May 9 and 15 were a pair of drunken driving charges that were levied within about a half an hour of each other.

This past January, Vermont State Police in New Haven barracks began an investigation into Thomas Utter, 34, of Bristol for numerous offenses spanning July of 2022 to January of 2023.

Late last Wednesday, Vermont State Police stopped a vehicle for a violation and ended up holding the driver in jail until they could send him out of state to face a murder charge.

Vermont State Police are alleging that a Ferrisburgh woman last Wednesday threatened a trooper with a gun and a chain, and then sicced her German shepherd on him.

Vermont State Police are asking for help from the public in finding the person who broke into the Bristol Country Store late Saturday night.

In addition to dealing with a number of traffic accidents and a driving-while-intoxicated case this past week, Vermont State Police were also helped in the search for a missing Middlebury teenager.