Vermont State Police Log: Crashes keep police busy

Vermont State Police dealt with two motor vehicle crashes in Addison County last week — the first sending a person to the hospital with injuries.

A Vermont State Police investigation last week into a reported domestic assault earlier in the month ended with a Cornwall man accused of a felony.

On Aug. 18, Vermont State Police announced that troopers had cited a Monkton man for sex crimes involving a child.

The Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office on Aug. 3 confirmed to the Vermont State Police that there was no foul play in the death of a Middlebury teenager this past spring.

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.