Vermont State Police Log: Domestic assault tops the list of citations

Vermont State Police have dealt with a rash of typical criminal activity, including impaired driving, speeding and a car crash.

Police reported a relatively quiet Independence Day Weekend except for two incidents of assault.

A Bristol man who had two previous domestic assault convictions was arrested last Thursday.

Police report that Craig Disorda, 50, of Leicester was driving a Can-Am Defender utility terrain vehicle and it hit a tree.

Troopers from the Rutland barracks responded to a crash on Forest Dale Road near Stone Mill Dam Road.

She was jailed at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility with bail set at $500.

Police responded to a one-vehicle crash in New Haven last Saturday and ended up issuing two citations for impaired driving.

Troopers ultimately located and recovered the stolen vehicle, and while conducting an investigation officers said they discovered a separate stolen vehicle in Monkton.

In what appeared to be a quiet week for Vermont State Police according to the number of cases the New Haven barracks announced, troopers did arrest a Waltham man who they suspect of driving drunk for the third time.

In five different instances recently, VSP cited locals for driving under the influence.

Troopers were assisted by members of Vermont Fish & Wildlife, as well as Bristol and Vergennes police.

A very serious two-car crash on Bristol Road in Monkton on Monday morning sent two people to the hospital and closed the important north-south artery for at least two hours.

Police report that 33-year-old Matthew Stanley was driving along Basin Harbor Road in Ferrisburgh when he lost control of his vehicle.

Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Guess, who was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, was a passenger in the vehicle driven by Aron G. Therrien, 27.

Troopers stopped two different Vermont men in Addison County this past week and cited them for driving under the influence of drugs.