beat spent about six weeks since we last talked we've had quite a bit going on in town i think the biggest thing in a lot of people have been talking about it is the felony traffic stop we made the other day right in front of the  cable t v channel fifteen office i'd like to talk about that a little bit we've had a rash of thefts in town over the last few months a lot of this is copper being copper piping wiring of all different kinds of anything that they can take to a salvage yard and make money and as i've told you in the past we solve crimes a lot times only with traffic work but with the citizens help and let me just start would saying that this whole investigation began in back on january sixteenth officer bullock it took a burglary complaint at blue flame gas which is located right there and governor pack wrote part of that that was they cut the padlocks broke and they stole wiring and some other stuff that they didn't know was still until we recovered it but how the citizens helped in this and we took the initial burglary complaint and about ten days later a citizen actually i was at another call a citizens contacted me that he had a person that he knew who get it done if i thought it was very curious that the guy every night was drawing insulation from wiring into the complex dumpster so not having a search warrant because the supreme court ruled in this state i need a search warrant to look in garbage the owner of the dumpster actually took it out showed it to me and i just took a few photographs which we took to the the latest victim victim was able to identify that housing course there was no copper tubing left in it one in south burlington and a vehicle that we were looking for that was tied into this these thefts so working with in conjunction with south burlington p d wil ourselves culturist the p d in south burlington p d we attempted to hit all three locations at the same time one being here in richmond one being in south burlington and we thought t asics because what happens when you hit one place the phone starts ringing and if we're not at all three locations property gets disposed of and rather hurriedly so using our offices we sent one officer south growing can be six because we were looking for a car actually just went on their own and we couldn't find the car there and we conducted a search warrants we didn't find anything in south burlington but here we found so much property mostly brass about brass fittings copper tubing copper wiring i mean we're talking thousands of feet will probably never find the owners we found a brand new gas furnace a wall furnace worth about anywhere from eleven to fifteen hundred dollars that was still in the box with the serial number we had to call our town highway garage and bring a full sized pickup and we filled the better that there him until he was in our suspects father's apartment and luckily the serial number was still on it they were able to track it and that was part of the burglary that look investigated back on january sixteenth so we found several pieces of property that were done if i would also find a lot of power tools they spent a battery operated power tools luckily they had a company name grabbed him into them called that company they came and looked at it yep that was a burglary that they had from one of their sites in essex back in two thousand and twelve like i said this all started from a citizen calling up and say you know this is a little suspicious and here's what i saw and it led to all this after we completed the two property searches we couldn't find a vehicle so we put out a b o l which is be on the lookout countywide just so happened i was headed up one seventeen i spotted the vehicle we made a felony stop on it stop yes our weapons were drawn there was four cruisers there just happen to be shift changing plus eight people and over time since the initial burglary of the blue flame gas and i did we find their property we have also found over we had another property it was a company out of southern vermont that was doing gas work on berber road which over ten thousand dollars in stuff was stolen we've identified that property we have identified a burglary  essex and we think we've identified another that the property from a vehicle here again copper tubing or copper wiring here in town so from met one little tip so far we've been able to tie these people in the least one of the people into four different thefts and these are felony theft because it's everything that was taken in each one was worth in excess of nine hundred dollars which makes it a felony both subjects were started to be processed here in the father happened to complain of a chest pains so we transported him to fletcher allen against his wishes we call the rescue squad in lo and behold the triple bypass surgery so he won't be going to court for a while the son was lodged at the correctional center on a ten thousand dollars bail and for some reason they kicked a moost in the next day and conditions but that's not for us to decide that's for the courts and the judge to decide but i think what's going to happen right now working with the surrounding agencies based on this one search warrant that one little tip we're solving crimes now seems like on a daily basis that person these people or person and another person have been responsible and we're talking thousands and thousands of dollars worth of property so here again i just like there reiterate what you think is not important you see something suspicious can be very important all this started from one simple little concerned citizens thinking this doesn't look right and contacted me so it worked out since the last time we talked and we've been fairly busy and we've handled the over one hundred twenty four cases we've made not counting these because we're still in the process of working that we've made fourteen ar three of those have been for drunk driving one of those was an accident where the suspect rear ended another in another car and then left the scene officer green i was able to basically they had the registration number which is also very important get a registration number which gave us a home location headed to that location serino found a vehicle where the operator who was pretty highly intoxicated had gone off the road again before you get home so he was processed for dui he fused to take the evidentiary breath test which is here in the office so that's actually separate charges when i was a charge with a dui charge what's called dui refusal and leaving the scene of the accident because you have a duty you have to stop and then if i yourself when you're involved in an accident that that other people's property is damaged so we had that one we had a total of three dui arrests we had two careless and negligent operation arrests basically this is people doings foolish things in their vehicles and that is a criminal offense it's one of the five motor vehicle offenses along with dui that is a criminal  offense we had possession of a controlled substance basically somebody had drugs that regulate drugs they were charged for that that's also not part of this case because as a follow up to that search warrant we also found are positive for both marijuana and cocaine so that twenty seven year old male is also being charged with that along with violations of conditions of his release  basically unlawful most of his you go and damage somebody else's property when you know you'll have the right to do that back on december twenty second at about eight fourteen in the evening corporal jay cancel an officer lance  court there the twenty one year old suicide old combative male at his grandmother's house once at the scene he wanted the officers to kill him and while they were at the scene they were processing it trying to get him under control they discovered that he had just under four ounces of marijuana which is still illegal in the state because it cut off as one outs but he had it all packaged for resale little tiny baggies you know so he could resell it so he was dealing it st the cruiser and the crew that particular crew has what we call a half cage in the back so they're very confined he decided to take his head and try to break the cage out kick the windows stuff like that so instead of bringing him here to our confined holding cell they took him the wilston p t which is a much more spacious holding cell easier to deal with plus an extra hand they got in there they process them he's fighting the whole time when they're trying to put him back in the car taken to jail he decided to fight and ended up getting pepper sprayed which is this little o c spray canisters that we carry which is basically just pepper spray it's made from a plant and it does thing and it's you know usually the effects and we wash your face off last you know five minutes or less but they took him to the hospital he's still banging his head on the cage he's still trying to kick out the glass he actually damaged the cage and the door panel in the cruiser which is one of the things we'll charge him with so when court when he's in his right mind hopefully they'll order him to pay for the damages called restitution because the door panel on is you know a couple hundred dollars and if you had actually damaged the cage you know there are seven eight hundred dollars to fix one of those so we took him to the fletcher allen emergency room where he proceeded to try to assault the staff so long story short he ended up getting restrained and as far as i know this was on december twenty second his bail was set at ten thousand but because of his mental state he still can car rated and i don't know when his actual hearing will be we had to arrest for false tokens out of us also was bill books case initially and he had to go get subpoenas subpoena the court records this person through the surveillance video became really easy once we got the surveillance video because the same woman that many was saw on t v news that had been involved with all the person that young at the grocery stores throughout the county a matter of fact because of that once we got the videos it was easy to find her because she was in the correctional center so we just simply went down the correctional center gave her a citation appear in court for a false token that was one of the cases and the other case was similar there again we had to go get subpoenas to subpoena the records and all this stuff takes time nothing gets done in forty eight minutes like it was on t v one criminal d l s that's basically your right to operate is suspended criminally and to simple assaults we got officer linda move got called to the park and ride to a newly renovated park and ride where two adult males in their twenty's decided to get into fi they probably just stopped there and broke it up we just you know nothing might happen but that is i had to go at it again before the officer got there there was i got involved one person had to go to the hospital and they're both going to be charged with simple assault basically it's simple assault mutual friday and that's because you are fighting with somebody and there's injury and it's over basically nothing so they'll both have their day in court during this last six weeks we were issued hundred seven traffic tickets and that's actually down a little bit because we had some really bad weather we had a lot of ice during this time period we spent quite a bit of time directing traffic we had you know fires we had the andrew burn fire we had a fire in the trailer park so there's a and then we had just the plain old bad weather but believe it or not even with all that ice we still  speeding tickets because people don't slow down and normally we investigate less than seventy accidents in a year in this town we had twenty five or more just in that short period of time al most all of these actions other than a couple that were dui related are basically people don't slow down when the weather conditions basically try to force you into slowing down and they are going off the road hitting trees hitting telephone poles hitting other vehicles so we had twenty five we had you know more than a quarter of what we usually do in a whole year in a short period of time we also wrote one hundred forty five warnings and we had ten  we issued most of those are because of richmond has a parking ban in the winter and when you know it's going to snow and if your vehicles left on the public street in town it has to be moved because highway can't get there plows through there to clean the roads up and they'll call us you know could be four o'clock in the morning when they come out you know the car such and such is blocking whatever road happens beyond has been moved when you get a parking ticket we've had to actually talk some of them and you have to pay the toll fee well on the parking banners you realize also that say the new parking lot and depot street some of those spots are we're listed at twenty four hour parking but that doesn't mean you can stay there when they're in the winter when there's a storm the parking ban still takes effect you know from that two am the five am time you can't leave the vehicle there they can't maneuver these plows around vehicles specially on these narrow streets it's not so bad on route two because the state does that but on the secondary roads like depot we're street you know tilden avenue baker street places like that you try to get a plow through there and they just can't get around the vehicles and will have been taught that we have been told to a different location you know just move them we did have one death in town officer green i myself had to go unfortunately to sudden death in town it's a standard there was nothing suspicious about it was sixty seven year old male had been suffering from  ass and he passed away at home but like anything else we have to make the plenary investigation just to make sure there's nothing suspicious call the deputy medical examiner who comes to the scene with up forms you know saying that you know this is basically nothing suspicious here and then the body can be released so the family can do what they have to do with it and we've had several of those in the last six months  greeno has actually been to school for us to be our death investigator it's a minimum of forty hours school and the school just basic give you clues on what to look for if there's actually some suspect which most cops with any timeline know about that already but it's just a formal school that we send the officer to and we only have one i've been through it but it was so long ago that you know i'm still certified in it but you forget things after doing this for almost thirty seven years task force does it's made up of deputy u s marshals they have a state police officer and i think they have another list books are and what they do is look for violent offenders that either of skipped hearings abide by their court conditions didn't show up for court things of that nature well they had a tip that somebody that we've dealt with in the past was in town officer linda  actually went to the area they thought he'd be hanging out while the taskforce was another part of town and saw two women in a man a man fit the description that actually never dealt with him and was one hundred percent sure but was pretty sure this was the guy so he just kind of engaged him in conversation small talk guy he made it who he was now what he did is went off to the side watched a guy observed him got ahold of the task force said your guys here and that was actually at the lucky spot store on what one seventeen it's dark you know it's by thirty six o'clock in the evening in this one vehicle one and one seventeen was watching the whole thing and stopped in the middle the road so when brett tried to turn into the back in the parking lot the guy just decided to go forward to watching it cost us a headlight bucket on the cruiser which is about three hundred dollars but this gentleman was assessed successfully taken into custody he was held on fifty thousand dollars bail as far as i know he's still in jail because he violated his conditions and he's also wanted on aggravated sexual assault and assault and robbery which basically is an armed robbery and hopefully he stays in jail for time costs about three hundred dollars replace the headlight bucket you know he's in jail and recap you know it's been professionally busy week you know we are solving these crimes but again if i can just remind people if you see something suspicious what do you think is nothing could be something very important to us take the time to jot the information down or call us just like this gentleman did led to all these cases were about to close not only here in town but throughout the county and it may even expand beyond that because i know that wilson officers right now  down in washington county and some follow up on stuff that they're doing based on this and they're also up in franklin county and follow up based on this which turns into a whole lot of paperwork we spend a lot of time doing the paperwork so if you see something suspicious write it down if you see a vehicle suspicious the again i cannot repeat myself enough right the plate number down it may turn out to be nothing ninety nine times out of one hundred what is that one time which leads into something like this it took us you know two weeks to do put this together basically and a day and a half to get all the paperwork ready for the state's attorney and a judge to sign the wars