Total reported incidents, including traffic stops: 216
Arrests: 3
Civil tickets, 1; traffic tickets 11; warnings, 29
Sept. 13 at 9:26 a.m., police separated two teenagers who were fighting at Laraway School in Johnson, and cited one of them into juvenile court for an alleged assault.
Sept. 13 at 2:12 p.m., a teenager who shared an intimate photo of herself several months ago said it was recently shared on Snapchat. Police are investigating.
Sept. 13 at 7:13 p.m., a car went off the side of Cross Road in Wolcott. No one was injured, but the vehicle had to be towed.
Sept. 14 at 3:50 p.m., a resident of the Jones Road area of Hyde Park suspected a neighbor shot at their dog. The neighbor said the complainant’s dog had been trying to get at his chickens, so he fired a couple of warning shots into the ground to scare off the pooch.
Sept. 14 at 8:33 p.m., three people were arguing at a home in the trailer park off of Wescom Road in Johnson, and one of them said he’d chased a guy out of the house who was doing heroin.
Sept. 15 at 2:51 p.m., a Johnson resident living off Railroad Street said someone egged their car and house, but didn’t have any suspects in mind.
Sept. 15 at 4:36 p.m., in Johnson, someone saw the words “HELP” in the window of a house and called for help. Police discovered the message was just a very early Halloween decoration.
Sept. 15 at 8:16 p.m., a Johnson resident on St. John’s Street told police that her neighbor, Tiffany Clark, 50, of Johnson, was outside her home, yelling at her, despite having court-ordered conditions to stay away. Police cited Clark to appear in court on suspicion of violating an abuse prevention order.
Sept. 15 at 10:14 p.m., in Johnson, a son said his mother had a broken arm but wouldn’t go to the hospital. Later, the woman’s daughter called to say she had been taken to the hospital.
Sept. 16 at 8:16 a.m., exactly 12 hours after the complaint from St. John’s Street, a person from the same address kept calling police but canceling the complaints. Ironically, the complaint was about someone who kept calling her.
Sept. 16 at 9:55 a.m., a car rear-ended the one in front of it as it turned from Route 15 onto Sterling View Road in Johnson. No injuries; no tickets.
Sept. 16 at 11:14 a.m., a long-running landlord-tenant dispute on Town Hill Road in Wolcott is continuing, with multiple complaints to police.
Sept. 16 at 11:47 a.m., a shovel, pry bar, hammer and a 40-inch demolition fork were among items reported stolen from a home on Plot Road in Johnson. Police are investigating.
Sept. 16 at 10:29 p.m., deputies assisted Northern EMS, which responded to reports that a Northern Vermont University-Johnson student had taken too many pills.
Sept. 17 at 9:30 a.m., deputies responded to reports of an out-of-control teenager at Lamoille Union High School. The student was later suspended, police say.
Sept. 17 at 1:56 p.m., a dog found in Johnson appeared to have a broken jaw and numerous cuts and bruises. Police are investigating.
Sept. 17 at 3:21 p.m., an ATV was seen speeding along School Street in Johnson.
Sept. 17 at 3:52 p.m., police are investigating a report that a Katy Win trailer park resident was scammed out of money.
Sept. 17 at 4:21 p.m., a Lamoille student was busted with a dab pen, two vape pens, and some marijuana.
Sept. 18 at 1:43 a.m., a woman told police she was concerned that her daughter’s boyfriend was being abusive to her. When police arrived at the daughter’s Johnson home, she told the cops to leave, that everything was OK. The man at the house was cooperative, police say.
Sept. 18 at 10:06 a.m., police helped calm down an unruly Laraway youth and give him a ride home.
Sept. 18 at 7:31 p.m., police accused George Goins, 62, of Hyde Park with unlawful trespass after he allegedly walked into the Johnson Maplefields eight days after the manager tried to serve him a no-trespass order.
Sept. 18 at 8:41 p.m., police gave a Johnson kid a ride home, after hearing from his worried mom.
Sept. 19 at 2:42 a.m., a hit-and-run damaged two parked cars on Center Street in Johnson. Police are investigating.
Sept. 19 at 11:58 a.m., the manager of the Jolley convenience store in Johnson told police Tyler Foster, 24, of Morrisville, who had been issued a no-trespassing order, had come into the store, bought some beer and left. There was also a warrant for Foster’s arrest. Police asked around town for Foster, and saw him walking around on Railroad Street. Foster ran off and deputy Philip Perkins got out of his cruiser and chased him down, handcuffing him in the tall grass near McCuin Heights.
Sept. 19 at 3:34 p.m., police responded to a Wolcott home for a report of a mentally ill person with weapons, but said everything appeared fine.
Sept. 19 at 5:07 p.m., a hit-and-run damaged a car in the Lamoille Union parking lot. Police are investigating.
Sept. 19 at 7:18 p.m., a be-on-the-lookout was issued for a runaway 17-year-old from Wolcott who has a history of running away, but the youth was not actually missing.
Sept. 20 at 6:18 p.m., a suspicious-looking black Subaru was seen prowling Wescom Road near the Johnson skate park.
Sept. 20 at 8:15 p.m., some unruly kids were picked up from a North Hyde Park home and taken to their grandparents’ place.
Sept. 20 at 8:49 p.m., a car hit a bear on Route 15 in Johnson, near where the Long Trail crosses the road. Police are unsure about the fate of the bear, which was nowhere to be seen, and the car was not damaged.
Sept. 21 at 4 p.m., after a mother-daughter quarrel at a Hyde Park home, the younger woman went to stay at her grandmother’s house.
Sept. 21 at 4:42 p.m., a Johnson resident thinks someone entered the home and turned on the hot water, which ran for 24 hours.
Sept. 21 at 7:08 p.m., a driver got a ticket for squealing his tires in Johnson’s Old Mill Park.
Sept. 21 at 8:25 p.m., a cellphone charger was reported taken from the Johnson Maplefields.
Sept. 22 at 11:04 a.m., a Wolcott resident took in a couple of Labrador dogs, feeding them and even giving them a bath. But then, the person refused to turn the dogs back over to the owner, until convinced otherwise by police, who said the dogs were in good shape, if a little old.
Sept. 22 at 7 p.m., a Toyota Tacoma headed west on Route 15 in Hyde Park crossed the center line and hit an eastbound Dodge Ram towing a tandem roller in a trailer. The Ram driver saw the other truck coming and tried to steer off the side of the road, which caused the trailer to crash through a horse fence. The Ram was also carrying the driver’s girlfriend and two young children in car seats — a 3-year-old and a six-month-old — none of whom required medical attention. The Tacoma driver submitted to a sobriety test and let police check his cellphone, and police said he was not intoxicated and didn’t appear to be calling or texting. He got a ticket for being in the wrong lane. His truck was demolished and the Ram’s entire driver’s side was damaged, as were the trailer and roller.
Sept. 23 at 11:30 a.m., the sheriff’s department met with Lamoille North school officials and a neighbor who had threatened to spread manure on the school fields if the school shot off fireworks during homecoming. School officials say the issue was resolved and the neighbor posted a public apology.
Sept. 23 at 3:30 p.m., a Wolcott resident reported a package stolen from the front porch.
Sept. 23 at 7:16 p.m., a Wolcott woman became combative after she appeared to overdose on opioids and was revived with Narcan. After calming down, she was taken to Copley Hospital for an evaluation.
Sept. 23 at 10:11 p.m., a person was reported brandishing a gun at the Johnson skate park. Police are investigating.
Sept. 24 at 3:09 p.m., police came to the aid of a Hyde Park woman lying on the floor of her village home. Police had to force their way in to help the woman up. She told police she had fallen down the night before and couldn’t get up, and she was taken to Copley Hospital.
Sept. 24 at 6:55 p.m., a car driven by a 17-year-old girl crashed into a tree on Ober Hill Road in Johnson, but she was able to drive the car to her passenger’s house, which was nearby. No one was injured and the driver wasn’t ticketed.
Sept. 25 at 9:19 a.m., Laraway kids were throwing rocks.
Sept. 25 at 2:56 p.m., a Johnson property owner said someone was dumping trash in their Dumpster on St. John’s Street.
Sept. 25 at 4:57 p.m., a car was egged on Wilson Road in Johnson.
Sept. 25 at 5:24 p.m., a pickup truck was seen on its side off Garfield Road in Hyde Park.
Note: Charges filed by police are subject to review by the Lamoille County State’s Attorney Office and can be amended or dropped.
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