e welcome to another dish of the richmond police beat i know it's probably been a couple months and so was time we talked to each other and one thing i'd like to bring up today is about every two weeks i do a report for the select board kind of looks like one of these breaks down or statistical information kind of highlights some of the stuff that we've done in a little narrative and what we've done for arrest the good thing now is because people always you know say you know they want more information but these are now downloaded to the town's web page so you can actually go in and i think the town manager jeff or banach has put them all way back to two thousand and thirteen and it kind of gives a  synopsis of what's been going on because a lot of times what you see now out there the reader front porch form or something like that things kind of get exaggerated you know people assume this they don't know the facts these kind of laid out a good thing i don't identify people in this i don't identify exact addresses so it's the it's all public record and it just breaks down everything so if you really truly want to know what your police department is doing just go to the town web page and kind of scan through what these reports i do for dislike or have to say we're going to try to cover a little bit of the last couple months that we've missed the big thing that everybody's been talking about in town of course is the burglaries  in the last two months we've had seven reported burglaries a couple of those have been business type burglaries word actually nothing's been taken somebody has gone in to the a business rifled through some file cabinets desk probably looking for easy money and nothing's been taken and we've had several other types of burglaries are being said in the last two months we've had seven reported one of those has basically been solved in no action taken and just recently on the ones we had served on hillview road in some surrounding areas we did have done a five to suspects on that we've just recently completed this is back from march we recently completed paperwork we've submitted the paperwork to the state's attorney's office and we've requested arrest warrants on the male and female and these are kids they're both around thirty years old late twenty's early essex these people have violent their harrowing users their heroin addicts are not using they're getting it for somebody that their would that is using a lot of this we've traced back some of the stolen property  additions that we've gotten so far the property sold was sold for the purpose of a buying heroin we just with the assistance of the vermont state police they did a war which we were partially involved with so we knew it was happening based on some information that we had up in franklin county and some of their property it was stolen and one of the home burglaries here in hillview was recovered up there so the state police is making arrangements to get that property back so we are making progress in this we're also submitted some additional names to the vermont health forensic lab we lifted some fingerprints off another burglary we have ari eliminated ten suspects based on what bronco had byrd database and their fingerprints because they use a different system so there's a lot quicker they can usually do in a couple hours where when we submit these fingerprints for comparison to the vermont forensic lab in waterbury with the state police it can take weeks months or sometimes even longer because they compare those the computer does with every fingerprint that was taken in not just the state of vermont but the entire country because if he doesn't recognize anything here if they were mine then it goes to the national system which then gets into the f b i system and it tries analyze those fingerprints which are millions and millions it does work sometimes it doesn't work like on t v so you know i talk to you once before i had a burglary case that took me fifteen months to get good d n a sample i collected blood so i made it to the lab and then fifteen months later the d n a sample had it which is not conclusive because everybody thinks if they see on t v you know the computer says oh john doe did this crime doesn't work that way you can't just go arrest on that in that particular case they had or will get in on what they call nine testimonials basically it's a search warrant for saliva and then compare again so that it goes all shipped back to the lab again so that's where we are with those i've been quite busy since the last time we talked we've handled over two hundred fifty cases some of those a been accidents they range from everything from accidents to suicides  corporate greeno who's the school resource officer has recently handled three sexual assaults now that sounds really bad but it's not you know some stranger com in breaking into homes and sexually assaulting somebody these are one juvenile suspect unlawfully making sexual contact against three female different three male female suspect victims and their cases have been put together now this is fairly recently and what we've done is transfer that case to cousy which is a chain unit for special investigations and they specialize in sexual assault cases and in this particular case because we're dealing with all juveniles what norm is going to happen with this case is they've already sent an investigator  they've interviewed the parents of the suspect they've interviewed decides back there's no priors in this they'll start with counseling mandatory counseling if the sauce juvenile suspect doesn't come around to that then he will be held accountable through the court system where he will be issued a civil basically it's called a jew when i open a citation which is not public record by the way because they're under the age of eighteen it's a completely different form than we give to anybody that's considered adult eighteen and above in this county for for doing our requirements because everybody thinks it's you know under sixteen it's actually under eighteen  we give juvenile citations to anybody under eighteen and those are not public record so you would never actually see a press release that said you know john doe exurban team did this on that particular type of case because once it goes to court then the judge can make a determination whether that is going to be treated as an adult or as a juvenile and if it's continued as a juvenile it'll it's always stay secret  be public record and then they can get him expunged later in their life if they stay clean so we've had no two hundred fifty two cases we're still having accidents you know we've written three hundred four traffic tickets in this last couple months and i got to tell you that one of the problems we're having in part of these accidents that we're investigating is when the the new electronic device law took effect back in october we rarely saw anybody when they first took a fact you know using their cell phone while driving or texting and by the way those are two separate offenses if you're on your cell phone and driving it's one hundred sixty two dollars fine but if we catch you actually looking down and texting using your fingers and stuff to send messages that's a two hundred twenty or thirty dollar fine it's a completely different offense we just recently investigated another accident again where to piers witnesses course the was a rear end accident was report with injuries witnesses said it appeared that the female operator was actually texting and driving down one seventeen by the lucky spot and just clobbered as pick up in front of her total her car of course she denied texting so she did get ticketed for a violation of following too close luckily nobody was seriously hurt her car is probably going to scrap yard in the truck approach be it was a four wheel drive charges but just in the last couple months we've made twelve dui arrests driving on the influence a small town like richmond you know it does happen here and we have made want to arrest for domestic assault and you know we have no choice and those told you before when we have domestic assault cases and we actually see signs of physical injury no matter slight the victim no longer has a say in that we have to by statue make the arrest and most of the time when we make an arrest on a domestic assault if it's a night or the weekend that person he or she because sometimes are getting more and more where the the violator the she is off to jail and they'll be held there o until the next available court date with if it's on a friday night a lot of times it's not til monday and or tuesday if it's a holiday weekend and they'll spend their time in jail we've had six criminal d one of these is the same guy three times two days in a row to learn his lesson so we finally after we got him the second time consecutive days the very next day a warrant come out for his also somebody we've charged with criminal offenses in the past i warrant came out because he didn't complete his mandatory work release program he was five days short of going to work  and he actually turned himself in here on the reason i think he turned himself in we we've actually had a we actually have a working reporter with him believe it or not you know as many times we rest from which is probably twelve to fifteen eighteen times now no it's a couple years we always treat them respect he's always given it back you know we haven't really had any issues with him and in this particular case he did turn himself in but he also knew that the very next day there was another  coming out for him because we had gotten him for the sale and possession of stolen firearms and he was supposed to plead out to that and begin a thirty day sentence and he failed to show up for court there like that and they were issuing another warrant so we actually took him to jail on the one warrant we had for his fare to complete his work group then notified the court system that he was in jail and and was supposed to be held for at least five days and that would give the court time to figure out so i think he sent three send it out his plea agreement and we're probably going to trial with him on this sale possession of the the officer linda move got a complaint of basically swear words and grades are actually car into the granite of one of the buildings in town school building and that turned out to be a fourth grader so they were not taking any court action the parents that's been a notified the kids being held responsible he's got some kind of things he's going to do through the school to make amends for his actions but i don't think will hopefully will have no more problems with him the other thing i'd like to bring up because the the police is nationwide are really been taken a beating and it was eight hundred thousand police officers in this country but the press only usually wants seeing the kind of print the negative and a lot of times they're not getting the information right which was evident with the stuff in missouri after you know all the rights and stuff the evidence that came out but this is national police week that's why the band last year we lost over one hundred twenty police officers this year so far we've lost over forty officers killed in the eye duty nationwide just recently three in the last week new york city twenty five year old officer new york city shot and killed you know investigating a suspicious person and two and had his bird mississippi a day and a traffic stop which is one of the most dangerous things we do believe it or not more officers are assault and assaulted and killed and as you know copping traffic stops and and that and domestics are the two most dangerous things we generally deal  with because you never know what you're walking up to but i just like you you know i think because you know there's like i said there's over eight hundred thousand police officers in this country and ninety nine percent of them are trying to do the right thing every day like anything out so you get a few bad apples and that's what seems to make the press but i'd also like to talk about what you can do to protect yourself and your property and we're getting a lot more you know the more press that we get and and i'll be honest with you you know we do press releases all the time but we're lucky if you see one out of ten that's actually put in the press so you see on t v they just that interested him but you know home burglaries a lot of things you can do to protect yourself one of the things that we offer is a property check if you're going to be away for any length of time cause give us the information one of the things we like to see is that information that you have actually have somebody else helping watch that house that's checking on it you know a neighbor a friend a family member we have some kind of a relative and somebody has access you know a lot of our people now we do house checks here that are months on end and specially in winter time were the people are headed to florida and stuff or someplace southwards warm for four or five or six months during winter time if we do have a problem with a house we actually don't like to break windows and break down doors it's kind of nice if we have access to somebody who actually has a key to it i am not going to take your keys and have them here and label ma because we just can't do that but on the form we actually fill out it'll say that you know who has a key what's their contact number and how to get you know how hold on the other thing we like to see is you know too many people now lights newspaper box in the paper stuff it's a dead giveaway you know that there's nobody at that house all they do is knock on the door most of these are monday through friday residential burglaries because that's when people are working during the day all they do is they knock on the door if you do answer the door they get some bogus story you know i'm looking for such and such or the big one lately is or not lately it's been quite regular is do you need any yard work or do you need your driveway fix germany unless they've got a vehicle that's all marked up this is you know a b c lawn care or you know d f you know driveway and road repairs they're not legitimate what you can do for us is get a good description of that vehicle get a good plate number and describe what the person or people look like and write it down don't try to put it in memory don't confront these people because some of these people can be dangerous when cornered just like a wild animal just unite interested shut the door lock it know what you can we're actually lately we're having more and more people calling w students they're all fisheries or you know woodland type biology type students going to the river to go fishing and all their fishing gear and stuff but you know we don't know that until we check another one that we've been getting called on the lot is the salesman so we've been getting that we do have a woman which we did have i did have linda put out on the front porch for him for next couple months to a different department of health she's driving a toyota corolla she will information that she's gathering if you so are inclined and will take in a more extended survey you can be paid up to thirty dollars but you'll you'll know that she's legit you know she has a photo i d it says  whatever the company is doing it for my department of health and her pictures on it and you know we don't have seventy something year old woman usually going out there in committing crimes  said that we had a seventy something year old woman overdosed on heroin not too long ago but this one is legitimate so like i said protect yourself call the property watches and we will try to check your property when we can't you know we've had houses that we've checked you know one particular house they had water break it could've gone on for weeks did some damage but you know luckily they had a contact name and number because we didn't have access to the house and got the you know got that problem taken care of the people were they were happy to be in florida put your lights on timers the you know multiple timers you can get now that change lights in rooms you know you don't want them on the same time going off off at the same time you know i have at least two or three different timers they're fairly cheap you get them at richmond home supply or you know any home supplier hardware's type store i think they're down like ten dollars it's a cheap investment different light separate different times you know maybe the living room like comes and goes in a night bed light room comes on or whatever just make the place looked into another thing that we're seeing now if you do have cars in the vehicle in the yard and you actually have people helping you keep track of the house move the vehicle around you know or be a call that sits there for weeks or months at a time stuff accumulates on it it doesn't take a rocket scientist nobody's been driving that been sitting there a long time you know especially in the wintertime when it's got two feet of snow on it have people come if you're gone in the winter have so many maintain a driveway make it look lived in you know stop your newspaper deliveries stop e mail deliveries and those that still use mailboxes in the rule carriers have the contacts have somebody have the keys and you know we don't charge in this town for alarms if you do decide to get an alarm system which can be but quite expensive unlike the state police that charges yearly yearly fee and plus if you get too many false alarms they charge you a fee for that too  know won't respond we don't do that now if we get too many we did have a seasonal home here that we had like six false alarms in a matter of about four or five weeks and we sent them a letter and say look until you get this problem squared away we're not responding to that alarm anymore because they're all been faults and they've since fixed the alarm it turned out to be the motion detectors were too sensitive because  season of the mice were set off and then we get called the alarm outside that it's you know lately the last couple days we've had to deal with some mental health issues which are time consuming and we had a husband  wife in their infant child here just the other day i think it was thursday from maine helping to move an elderly relative into a house you know alcohol and mental marital problems and so maybe some mental health issues don't mix some threats were made the woman was hysterical we get calls we go there corporal bowick and myself the next thing we see is the wife in the infant running down the road and the husband jason are on foot so we enter see the husband and i find the admin after nearly denying it in midst of the fact that he had marital issues he finally admitted that he did threaten suicide but a lot of what he said he said he couldn't remember because he drank a whole bottle of brandy the night before we actually got him to consent to come here with us voluntarily we called howard mental health they sent a counsellor down which he had refused to according to his wife in the past because this has been going on on an opera that seven years and they spent a good couple hours here talking this out of the counselor and the man that made the threats  which is a good beginning so he finally acknowledged that yeah i maybe i do have some problems where before it was always it's not me it's her you know it's always her trying to blame it on you know her  we actually tried to blame it on and then you know the very next day we're dealing with another one where we have to call crisis and so you know there are avenues out there for you to get help and we'll do the best we can to try to get to that help but we can't do it by ourselves we need your help and again i encourage you to go on to the town web page look up what we do and it gives you a sense of what's going on in town and that's really all i have today until we meet again hopefully it won't be quite as long as is this last time