it's been probably about five and a half six weeks since we spoke to you last today the first thing i'd like to talk about is home safety many of you probably either read the newspaper in the last couple days or saw on the television news stations the incident in jericho where a woman came home in the afternoon saw a strange car new yard went in their house and confronted a burglar well the good thing what she did was she was able to get back out of the house get the plate number of the car and then call the police the bad to hang about this whole incident was she confronted the burglar now this happened to be a woman that was in her house burglarizing her and had recently just done another one and was out i conditions from other burglaries but the problem with that is that you shouldn't do that this particular case nothing happened but you never know if the  suspect is hopped up on heroin we have a lot of heroin abuse in his county and one of the reasons they're having so many burglaries are looking for things that they can sell that they can buy get money then buy their heroin or crack cocaine which is also big right now and believe it or not even marijuana the best thing you can do is if you come to your home and you think somebody is in there you see a vehicle for all get the plate number that's how we track this down and then get out of there and call nine one one let law enforcement do their thing then they should be searching your house not you confronting them this case nothing happened but you know there have been cases in the past where you corner the suspect they could be armed with a knife or a gun or pick up anything in the house and it's a danger to yourself at that point so just get out call nine one one let the police get there and do their thing  this particular case the the suspect was known by the plate number and and they tracked or right to her house and she sensed been arrested and charged with but only that burglary but another burglary and she was out i conditions for several other burglaries and this this is a college educated woman that's in her fifty's i believe that apparently has a habit and is breaking in the people's property that they get items to sell so just be safe don't do that the other thing i'd like to talk about briefly again we've had several more car breaks in the town since the last time we spoke we probably had five or six more most of those are bickles that are parked on residential streets in town it happens at night the people are leaving their their personal property within sight in the vehicle and there they get entered they're taking you know one particular case they had a special pair of sunglasses but they're a very special prescription they're worth two thousand dollars well the suspect doesn't know that just another pair of sunglasses  but they're picking up you know easy things that can be sold we did have one case where they actually broke a car window the side door window because the wallet was left right there in between the seats on the council  in plain view that was the only thing that was taken they never even looked underneath the little shelving storage shelf underneath the dashboard there was some money change some dollar bills some other items that were worth money that they didn't get taken but the wallet happened to be right there in plain view and they took it and then we've had other one other currents going on in town this mostly at the park and ride and think we've had four of them now where people are leaving their vehicles there for an extended period of time and they come back they start the vehicle up and it just doesn't sound right they've been caught in the catalytic converters out of a takes probably about two minutes they're bringing their little portable saws all going in there and they're cut in now and as these catalytic converters range anywhere from zero about one hundred thirty dollars to two the big ones we had stolen which were at the park and ride were worth about two thousand dollars apiece and it's just these vehicles have been left the park rides under construction worker in there all the time because we do have a fair amount of activity in there especially late at night but these vehicles have been left for extended periods of time i would recommend you not leave your vehicle extended period of time and right now with it being under construction it doesn't have the best lighting hopefully when this expansion to the park and ride is completed the lighting will be better but it's really hard for us when we got one hundred fifty to two hundred cars in there to try to look at every single one you know they see our cruiser pole and all you do is duck under underneath there behind another vehicle if they're in there but we have confronted some people in there since the last time we spoke about five six weeks ago we've handled one hundred sixty two calls for service to those calls we investigated were untimely deaths we did one of our officers has been sent to the death investigation school officer green  so week long school one was a suicide or a male decided to shoot himself and we investigated that these are kind of long and drawn out because we have to wait for the autopsies and if they think there's drug toxicology test and all that stuff and then we have to deal with the family after you know when these people commit suicide they don't think about the mothers and the brothers and the fathers and the sisters and all that after that that's what we deal with rigs out right now dealing with the mother of the suicide victim to return some of the property we're not going to return the weapon that was used but the rest of their property were turned to the family and we also had untimely death for a seventy two year old man was found at his camp in town and he was found outside was you unique about it first is the outside was padlocked or locked and it appears that he came out of the the building through a window we don't know why and crawled to the front porch where he died and he'd been there probably a couple  days before somebody noticed him so of takes a little time to investigate that but it turns out it appears that we'll never know why he went out the window we know he had a stroke we're speculating that he probably just went out the window because that was when you have a stroke you don't have all the functions of your body went out the window and then for some reason was trying to get to the front of the house or maybe to a vehicle we're not sure and then died right there but the autopsy showed that you know he was seventy two years old he was actually in good health and for some reason he had a stroke so it took a couple days to deal with that one of the things that we just did was back in believe it or not july second two thousand and twelve at about four fifty in the morning i got called to the kitchen table beach drill for a burglary that occurred there while i investigated that burglary  i could tell that when the suspect broke the glass door at that time and over that he or she cut themselves either on the hand or they the arm so i collected the blood i collected the blood off of  menu up a wine list and off the door mechanism where the lock mechanism where they broke in so this doesn't work like t v and i'm talking july second two thousand and twelve about two weeks ago the lab simply back a d n a hit and we actually identified the person that did it located him it wasn't that hard because he was under twenty four hour curfew would it let tronic wandering because he was out on salt robbery charge he took the catchers the cash register alone which was used was twelve hundred dollars and then probably three hundred dollars to damage the door so here again this person has a drug addiction and he's doing  to support that habit when south burlington p d detectives confronted him because when i went looking for me down there he wasn't there even though it was supposed to be they found him later in the day he doesn't even really remember which isn't that uncommon you know when they get under the influence of narcotics or even alcohol at times or they do so many they just can't remember how many they've done and those of you that have read the papers or watch the news see this  become an epidemic the burglaries the house breaks the car theft or thefts in the cars and they're just looking for easy items south burlington p d and we have a direct line with them through the computer system that the humala has a where you can turn in your old phone and i pads and stuff like that it won't take a laptop and laptop computer but it basically looks like an a t m machine and they're finding that the drug addicts are stealing these i pads and i phones and cell phones and stuff they put them in this machine and it gives them money depending on how much it's worth a lot of them are only five or ten dollars some of them are you know suspicious thus when you take one of these new brain new apple wives or whatever they call it now and the machine isn't a couple hundred dollars for one of those phones or retail for six seven hundred dollars right now for the top of the line one but the good thing about this machine is it takes their photograph and they have to put their thumb print up there or fingerprint to identify him and it's all done electronically and we're getting i should say we south burlington is getting two or three hits a week out of that phone return machine and echo environmental phone where they have a long name for it  but the one thing that we did learn is the scripts are get smarter so they'll just ask somebody you know i forgot my i d they might walk up to you as they ever got my id can you just insert this phone and see what it's worth don't do it because they've either done enough and they know the circuit the routine or the they're just trying to get you involved and then they'll say oh if i get three hundred dollars i'll give you ten dollars to do that and that's one of the common things that they're using right now so if you're in the humam or down in the town burlington because brown like it has one also if somebody confront you and it sounds suspicious it is suspicious just don't do it s all five are for criminal d l s which is driving while your license suspended criminal in vermont there's two different violations one civil and one's criminal always criminal if you've been charged was a d w i or leaving the scene five civil violations for operating with your license suspended so that means these people got to get caught five times now they don't just usually get caught because they look at that there's john doe over there and i know he's under suspension it's they  for something else or stopped for speeding or running a red light or traffic light or inspection violation and when we run them in the computers that they come back suspended and they have to get five of those convicted before they become criminally suspended but we had five five criminally suspended we had one false information to a police officer with this case with officer green hat in the motor vehicle stopped and things just weren't right and the guy told me was somebody and doing some digging and looking at some other paperwork basically in the long run the guy knew we had a warrant greeno confronted him he finally admitted who he was he was arrested on the warrant what you were just going to jail in the seven hundred fifty dollars warrant and co to post his bail and gone and done it but now he's got the warrant he was charged with false information with a police officer he was also criminally suspended so he actually went to jail that there that evening because all because he lied about who he was and they do that to us all the time we also had possession of heroin here we have that here in richmond people don't think we do but we do we got actually an assist to a medical call and the guy was passed out and the needle still in his arm and the drugs go in it and a bag and he was on probation so not only did he get admitted to the hospital but he's going back to jail we've already talked to the prosecutor he's being charged with possession of heroin and is because he's on conditions of release they're violating him and he'll be back in jail shortly and that may not be a bad thing because it's a lot harder for them to get their drugs while they're in jail maybe a way for him to to get over this addiction this guy had  a good business and he just got hooked on the drugs and he's basically lost his business and he's going to end up back in jail all because of heroin we've had three conditions of violations arrest and what those are and he's most of the time are repeat offenders for us and two of these arrests it was the same guy in two days and one of them was the same guy that we've arrested like four times now the underlying problem generally is condemned these violations in all three of these cases they got liquored up they already had conditions from the court from arrest that we've done in the past and they go back to where they are supposed to be and this basically leads us to get called there and then we end up charge him with violations conditions a release of courts not open they go to jail and all three of these they went straight to jail and one guy that we was the fourth time we've arrested in the last couple months he spent almost i think thirty days in jail from prior ones we had because of his alcohol problem so it's just you know it's too easy today to pick up a helpline phone number and call someone to get in it's hard to get into a place but it's not hard to get that process rolling it just takes a phone call the one guy that we were arrested from town i think we arrest him twelve times in i would say seven week period the biggest problem with him was they didn't have a bed for him and then when they finally got  bed for him one of the treatment facilities he went there to start is alcohol rehabilitation one of the staff members knew him and there was a conflict of interest so guess what he goes out put on another waiting list for another facility in the meantime he got arrested because he was supposed to go to court he didn't get warrants issued for him we happened to hear his name through dispatch down in another town dispatch called the other towns a day by the way this person has warrants out for him and he went straight back to jail hopefully now he's in a treatment facility in the central part of the state to deal with his uncle mean this is a man that we arrested for dui at eight forty in the morning he was point one ninety eight more than twice over the limit so that's a serious drinking problem most of time we were arrested on his violations conditions he was intoxicated a lot of them in the morning you know  and he started in the morning so there's alcohol as you know is a is something that can be treated they just have to want to do it and we did have one dui arrest  basically that was for more vehicle stop and as that person blew more than twice he was like a one six eight and this was his second offense and then we had to leave in those scenes this is one of those  here again you make things worse it was a simple motor vehicle accident and they tried to flee and hide and one of my officers was able to track him down to work the house he was high and so and so i just maybe getting either nothing just filling out an accident report or a simple traffic ticket he got the traffic ticket plus he got charged criminally with careless and that was an operation in leaving the scene of an accident so it's just it's most the time it's better it's always better to wait till the police get there if you run there's always going to be more underlying charges that come we also in this time period we wrote one hundred forty two traffic tickets which sounds like a lot but you're talking quite an extended period of time in the numbers are down and i think a lot of that is we've been doing a lot of high intensity traffic work and we actually had a grant that expired and this september and i just got authorized for a new one and over time traffic enforcement grant so what we do is the guys that are going to cause they're working overtime on their own time but going to traffic areas and we're hitting the areas where our stats show is we're having the most accidents and most of our accidents are huntington road byrd road east and west main street and one seventeen that's where the majority of them are and so that  new grant just kicked in we actually haven't even started yet but i think why the numbers are down and they're seeing now in the officers out there but they see myself every day making traffic stops but i got to tell you this is a good thing it's a lot harder today to find a violation than it was last year and that's the purpose of this is to educate people and to get them to abide by the traffic laws and which reduces accidents as reduces injuries and reduces deaths written warnings we did write eighty three of those parking tickets we wrote forty now that that's quite a few in this time period but thirty five of those were written one day by myself and officer green oh at the gorge because you couldn't have gotten a fire truck or any influence through there it hasn't been as bad this year because the weather was kind of miserable for the most part in the waters but real high so we haven't had the traffic with the one day we had eighty degree weather the water level was down the water was clear it wasn't running brown like it had been for most of the season we had cars parked everywhere and we rode like thirty five tickets and that one day between two  about writer's cramp then we haven't had a problem since you know our next biggest complaints are usually for the store where people want to park in the handicapped parking lot cheaper for right under town parking ticket has only a twenty five dollar fine versus if we rode it under state violation or it's over two hundred dollars fine another case we had and this happens this is basically a road rage case and i'll just briefly go over this back on september sixth at two twenty four in the afternoon which isn't a high traffic for us in this county because just before the large commuter time but we had to bridge construction for the checkered house bridge and we have the construction going on for the parking ri ht we had a woman decided that waiting was too long so she decided to pull out a line she hit now ali the first traffic controller she went down and for some we just decided she was going to turn around she hit the guardrails when the other traffic controller another second traffic controller tried to you know wait stop you know get away she hit that one and then she fled the scene we have tracked her down because they were able to get the plate number and this woman's been charged with leaving the scene of the accident careless negligent operation and she's probably going to get some traffic tickets the car wasn't hers the cars that's been sold by the family and now she's going to go face the judge all because she was basically in a hurry to get to wherever she was going and we don't know where that is at this point but just there was no need for it you know the traffic will move there's been some complaints the other day i know the traffic was tied up for up to twenty minutes at the park and ride but they were putting the power lines that they had route to dug up so they only had one lane and that was basically the new access lane coming  the enters they operand so it did tie traffic up because they had to run the fiber optics of the power lines were running underneath the road because that will have a traffic signal in that on it that intersection in the near future when they complete deck instruction four hundred fifty dollars and this is almost like i think we talk about something like this almost every time we we talk on the show of course the buyer signs are checked for thirty three hundred dollars not four hundred fifty and basically go ahead and cash just check send me the difference take out you know whatever shipping cost as well it's all bogus you get stock you send them the money and people actually do this they fall for this they'll go will send the person you know the product and the money and then they get stuck and it's just it's simply a scam now most of the time they they go after the elderly people but not all the time you know this was one of those crimes of opportunity that you know because you put someone craigslist if you get something like that it sounds too good to be true it is don't do it she did the right thing she brought it in to us unfortunately these people could be anywhere in the country or the world that do this stuff and it's hard track and they found a lot of it out of out of country but a lot of it also i mean it's out of the west coast  or the southwest seems to be a hotbed for or florida seems to be another hotbed for it they actually have a stash houses in florida where you send the stuff on these type of cases and then they resell it and nobody lives there it's just the drop houses all it is all we also have another one to talk about briefly it looks legit a minute you're getting a flyer from it says u happy us air but it's a letter that says if you do something so much so and spend this amount of money and you'll get extra points and it's all a scam and it could be you know the letter might be say it's from jet blue it might say it's from southwest it might say it's from you know delta or american airlines if you see something like that it just looks too good you can always pick up the phone and call the airline and they will tell you if they're actually doing something like that most of my not doing that right now it was another scam letter and normally you're not going to be told that you could pay a certain amount and we'll hold this bonus points for you for whatever trip you think you're going to do it's just a scam so if you think it's not legit call the airline and don't use the number that's listed on the form letter you get because it's a bogus number look up in the phone book call the airport you know ask for jet blue or whatever company it happens to be and are you offering this and ninety nine times out of one hundred you know it's a scam and then what they do is they use legitimate and kind of their letterhead never think and they send out these bogus things that just trap people in and take your money you know doesn't sound like much if there are asking for ten or fifty dollars but they do that a thousand times throughout the country or more it's a lot of money to them and it's a white collar crime so the penalties if they actually get caught because of it is a federal crime are a lot less if they're dealing heroin or or crack cocaine or robbing banks or something like that we do have one new employee lance martell you won't see him for a while he's been in the academy and in pittsburgh he's going to be full time because we lost officer josh chancellor who went to wilson p d but lance all graduate from the academy sometime in november but even after he graduates from the academy after his sixteen weeks there will be another four weeks where he has to go back to the academy for certain other classes that offer during the sixteen weeks like the dui and the radar and some spillman which is the computer stuff and then he'll be under neath you know with us so probably hopefully by february he'll be out on the road on his own and in february i'm hoping to have two more in the academy which will be one more than were authorized but we already know that one that we currently have will probably be leaving between july and september next year and we've taken employment with a larger agency but he's given us enough heads up that we're we're actually the some of this paperwork on my desk in the background investigations that we're doing to get to new members into the academy hopefully in february