Vernon, VT Police Department

BRATTLEBORO – A Vernon man accused of inappropriately touching a child under the age of 10 pleaded guilty last Monday to lewd and lascivious conduct on a child.

In Windham District Court, Kevin O’Neil, 38, entered into an agreement with the state, but will not be officially sentenced until this week.

The agreement includes a sentence of eight to 10 years, all suspended except for nine months of prison time to serve.

In also states that O’Neil will be on indeterminate probation.

O’Neil engaged in lewd and lascivious behavior with the victim for two years, according to court documents.
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BRATTLEBORO – Rodney Allen Moore, 44, of Vernon, was sentenced on Friday in U.S. District Court to six months in jail after pleading guilty to one count of possessing a weapon after conviction of a felony.

Moore also recieved two years of supervised release following the completion of his jail term from Judge J. Garvan Murtha.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Burlington, Moore, who was previously convicted of three felony offenses, was found to be in possession of a Remington Woodmaster rifle on Nov. 17, 2008, in violation of federal law.
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On January 24, 2010 at approximately 7:20pm, Paul E. Boyce and Thomas G. Johnson were involved in a head on collision with no injuries on Route 142. Traffic was temporarily re-routed for approximatley 45 minutes on Route 142 where the crash had taken place because of icy road conditions. Continue reading ‘Accident in Vernon’ »

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The new Vernon Police Department Chevy Tahoe will be arriving soon.

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BRATTLEBORO – Brittany Gilbert has traveled thousands of miles over many weeks to assist dozens of young children in Haiti. She has flown to the tiny island country five times, even surviving the heart-stopping earthquake on Jan. 12.

But the most challenging part for the Gilbert family is still on the horizon.

Brittany, a 21-year-old Vernon resident, and her mother Karen are currently drawing on all their resources to bring two Haitian orphans, 4-month-old David and 2-year-old Melodie, back to the Green Mountain State.

Brittany Gilbert returned to Vermont on Sunday evening after spending several days in Florida with 11 of the Haitian orphans from the Heartline Ministries facility she was working with in Port-au-Prince.
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VERNON — For the last four months, Brittany Gilbert has worked in a Haitian orphanage with about 22 young children in humble conditions.

Since the devastating earthquake hit the island country earlier this week, the 21-year-old Vernon resident has seen the orphanage’s exterior wall leveled and the facilities so badly damaged, the children and staff cannot go into the buildings.

“To feel the earth literally shaking you and tossing you across a room is the scariest thing I’ve ever felt,” she wrote on her blog from Haiti.
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BRATTLEBORO -- The homicide rate in Vermont hit its lowest point in two decades after only four documented cases in 2009.

While there are still two additional homicides cases currently under investigation, the figure is down significantly from the 17 such crimes in 2008.

Max Schlueter, director of the Vermont Crime Information Center, said the rate in Vermont tends to consist of peaks and valleys, often committed by people who know the victim in some way.

“In Vermont, really, the ups and downs are more related to the nature of the peoples’ relationships than to any type of trends,” he said. “I think if you look at the homicides over the years, they do seem to be more of a roller coaster than a linear increase or decrease.”
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BRATTLEBORO — To add to the growing list of this winter’s snowmobile accidents, local law enforcement investigated two more crashes in Windham County last week.

This coincides with yet another fatal snowmobile accident in Vermont, this time in Salisbury, where five people on three snowmobiles fell through the ice of Lake Dunmore, causing the death of Kevin Flynn, 50, and Carrie L. Flynn, 24, both of Whiting, and three-year-old Bryanna Popp of Brandon, according to State Police.

Snowmobile accidents have now resulted in six Vermont fatalities in December and January alone.

In a less serious crash in Windham on Saturday, a Connecticut man was sent to the emergency room of Springfield Hospital for a broken wrist.

Jeff James, 43, of Brookfield, Conn., sustained the injury as the result of a three-vehicle collision with a father/daughter pair riding together on separate snowmobiles, according to the Vermont State Police Department, Rockingham barracks.

The police report stated that the case is still under investigation but that at this time, it appears there will be charges issued.

Speed appeared to be a factor, the police report said.

Neither the 13-year-old girl who collided with James nor her father was seriously injured.

All snowmobile operators born after July 1, 1983, who are 12 years of age and older, must take and pass a snowmobile safety course, according to Vermont law.

A Vernon youth narrowly escaped a snowmobile crash Jan. 6 with minor injuries after he crashed his snowmobile, according to the Windham County Sheriff’s Department.

The juvenile, whose name is not being released due to his age, was traveling through a field when his snowmobile collided with a set of logs.
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A juvenile escaped a snowmobile crash Wednesday, January 6, 2010 with minor injuries after he crashed is snowmobile in Vernon.  The juvenile, whose name is not being released due to his age, was traveling through a field when his snowmobile collided with a set of logs and he was thrown from the snowmobile.  The juvenile was brought home by his friend who he was riding with.  The crash was investigated by the Windham C0unty Sheriff’s Department and the Vernon Police department.
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Kevin Murray, 39, of Guilford, was arrested Saturday, December 26, 2009 for driving with a criminally suspended license. Corporal Mark Anderson and Deputy Richard Almeida of the Windham County Sheriff’s Department stopped Murray for driving with a cracked windshield on Wheeler Road in Vernon. Investigation revealed Murray to be driving with a suspended license. He was arrested and processed for the offense. He will appear in court at a later date to answer to the charge.
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