beat it's been almost two months since the last one that we've done i'll give you a little recap on what we've done in almost two months since we last spoke one of things that we have done is since that time period we've made seventeen arrests some of those arrests have been for dui actually ten of their us have been for dui and what's interesting even here in richmond two of those arrests have been drug driving while the influence of drugs and that's a lot more complicated than most people realize realize because we can't just bring him into the office and get a breath sample from we actually have to go to what is called a d r e it's a drug expert get him  evaluated and then we have to request a blood test on that the average time do arrest somebody for driving the influence of drugs is four to five hours when you count all the paperwork so we actually had two of those in the last couple months out of the ten duis that we've arrested we've also had five people arrested for driving under suspension criminally and there is a difference in this state now there's a civil suspension which means basically it's a traffic ticket for two hundred  fourteen dollars to two hundred forty two dollars depending on which offense it is in your give it up to five offenses now before it becomes criminal and then the criminal one is just that it's people are arrested for the driving under the influence for criminal a suspended license as we also have one a rest for a fugitive from justice who is wanted in new york state high bail was a drug case and one of the officers took him in isn't enough to lodge that person but that person was taken into custody affidavit was done and he was placed in the chin in county correctional center until new york state authorities came and got him we had one case of  trespass where the suspect was arrested for that one case of unlawful missed differ actually we had two cases of that and that's basically a vandalism case where somebody destroys somebody else's property and doesn't have any right to do that we had two of those we also had one case of a female decided that she wasn't going to get arrested for one of those cases and so she was also charged with resisting arrest she decided to fight the officer her b a c was well up there near three zero so that can account for some of that we had a case of cultivation of marijuana we were called to a basically a family dispute and while investigating a family dispute we found a little grow garden in side to bedroom where his marijuana plants and some cultivated marijuana and seedlings and everything else all over so that person was charged with cultivation of marijuana and we also had a case of possession of marijuana where they actually had process marijuana more than five  grams probably more than just for themselves and that's basically the highlights of the arrests for this last couple months we also issued one hundred sixty traffic tickets and one hundred thirty seven warnings and handle two hundred twenty one cases during that period now i'm going to go into a little if you will highlight to some of the cases back some of you will remember back in march there was a commercial aircraft that was basically a laser beam was shined into the cockpit the pilot reported it to the f a a from the position of the airport the position to where the plane was when it happened they basically pinpointed the area that it occurred from somewhere around face corners so a couple nights later we did what we call a directed patrol we had officers our officers we had state police will stand p d and fish and game as a part of that combined effort we ended up basically stumbling on a large teenage drinking party many of them ran off in the was that we never saw corn this on that's them it's up to eighty of them for teenagers or those under twenty one were issued what we call pas ticket search for underage drinking tickets but we also call them fishing game because if they had a loaded weapon in the car it was a loaded shotgun which is a fish and game violation so they were charged with that what a loaded weapon with a motor vehicle and whatever fishing game does after that i'm not sure if the other charges pass tickets are basically you get to freebies and you get to is a three hundred dollar fine those that are under twenty one they get a taf ticket or underage drinking ticket or possession ticket are allowed to go to a basically a training facility session and you sign a contract and you basically are told you have to do certain things and if you complete that then the ticket is dismissed if you don't complete it then you have to pay three hundred fine and that your first conviction in this particular case this was one of the softest subjects it was a second violation so this will be a second chance at it and if he doesn't complete this than any other subsequent violations will automatically pay the fine and their driver's licenses are suspended as a result of that that's that was one of the things that resulted from our concentrated effort to try to find out who might have been lasering that commercial aircraft was trying to land in the burlington international airport but we know it was around face corners during this reporting period we've also got all the officers of the apartment with the exception of one and gone to the sovereign citizens training what most people realize as sovereign citizens we've started to encounter them more and more in vermont and these are people that don't believe that local state or federal laws apply to them we had one case where one of our officers stopped a lady basically let our officer think that she was somebody else turned out she was one of the sovereign citizens the traffic ticket was issued on this turns out that the real person who own the vehicle who was in another state at the time got wind of it we got a phone call we were able to get photos and determine that we had the wrong person that ticket was dismissed and then we had to apply for an arrest  to go after the the female that was who falsely dennis fighters out this woman has a history of basically we have no rights to arrest her investigate her to traffic stops do anything that's associated with a federal state or or county government they just that's their belief they have some other beliefs and sometimes they're mostly just passive resistance something it's just verbal other times it can be all we have to armed they had a case out in the midwest where the father had  sixteen year old son shoot and killed two police officers on a traffic stop so they are here and we are now getting trained on them because we seem to be running into them more and more in the state of vermont this is our second is that dealing would sovereign citizens people within richmond we've also had a couple fraud complaints again i've got to we talk about this every time one person's debit card was taken for five thousand dollars it's imperative that you  check your statements on a regular basis debit cards are not as secure as credit cards basically if you use your credit card and it's hacked it's one hundred percent most of the time one hundred percent covered that's not always the case with debit cards so if you're going to do something on line probably better off using your credit card then you are your debit card because that is covered by the credit card companies but if you see something on your statement that you know in this particular case i was looking at my notes the purchases were actually made in california this person's never been to california and the key to that person in that california i didn't buy anything there got a hold of the banking copying it was another scam that card had been hacked it's happening more and more not only in this state but throughout the country to the point that the federal government is trying to initiate new legislation to go after them because this is something that most men this bill county and state police departments don't have the resources to handle because you're dealing with national and international theft so again check your  statements we also helped out with the essex police department on a burglary case turned out we went to the home here and in town now we did we not get the person we wanted but we ended up getting a sixteen year old  truancy charge that basically had been a school for over a week just the parents of had some legal issues criminal legal issues and that they've decided that you know kid doesn't want to go to school when the law says they have to go to school so that that sixteen year old was actually taken in custody by the school resource officer at the high school and brought back to the school and they'll be hearing a truancy hearing in front of a judge which are s r o has dealt with many of them through camels on middle school in the past three months he's probably been to court for seven eight nine different joins hearings now so that's you know sometimes that stuff people don't know that law enforcement gets involved and we also had another fraud but in this particular case this was a another five thousand dollar fraud we're working closely with the bank in police department because we were able to trac back to a location and in the bennington area bennington p d they're going to their detective sergeants is very interested in handling this case or assisting in this case and probably if there is actual court action someday it will be handled out of the bennington superior court system instead of in county superior court because that's where the offender that we believe is located right now and i was just in a two week period  some of the other things that we've we've been able to do we talked about the unlawful misdefine awful trespass resisting arrest those cases stem from  call that want to our guys went to and he still rode basically former girlfriend showed up highly intoxicated decided that she was going to stay there when she was on wanted call came in the us both she had to leave at some certain language for the officer told she was under arrest decided that she was going to do that either so she ended up with multiple charges and was lodged at the cheating county correctional facility back in early may our officer was caught one of our officers was contacted by about a sexual assault on a four year old he basically prepared some information got what he thought was enough and the victim who is currently in the barry city area and the four year old victim there was a nuff to warrant and investigation so pond further review of the case and finding some more facts  called me and what we did is called cousy and for those who don't know who he is a chit and you know for special investigations it's run out of the an office near the courthouse in burlington and these are detectives specifically trained to deal with child sexual abuse cases reviewing the case with them they did we did all the term and that there looks like there's probable cause in this case that this four year old was being assaulted by a distant relative who was eighteen and because the interview and all that stuff would it take place and barry we wrote the initial investigation and then we turned that case over to cousy investigators so right now that's you know we took the initial complaint the cases out of our hands and if there's court action it will be done through the quds investigators the crime happened here in richmond the case could be tried in either washington county or cheat in county depending on you know is very hard interview a four year old i did that for two years in my prior job and that's why these cousy and they call me all different things every county has one these people are specially trained to to interview youth that have been sexually assaulted and i gotta tell you it is reform are investigated for this two years is a long time to do this trying to build cases where four year olds i've had it i had one as young as eighteen months old and had been sexually abused all the way up to seventeen and that's used to cut off unless it's a dramatic case and it's takes a special type of person to be able to sit down with these kids and victims and talk  to about what happened to him and the good thing about cousy being near or its namesake in every other camera at every county in the state now is that they have special offices now with special rooms designed you know it's not the sterile interrogation room you see on t v you know where you have to chained down a chair and a locked up table and no rooms and just bars all over the place these are brightly colored rooms with all kinds of  diagrams and showing teletype things that these kids can because they don't know what they're talking about they just know that they hurt in a certain part of their body and he's investigator so that case that was back in early may is referred has been referred to cousy and and we're looking for a good conclusion on that within the rest another case one of our officers handled and here again alcohol  was on federal probation for drugs we finally got her she blew a point two five four for those that don't know point zero eight blood alcohol content is the legal limit of intoxication in most states in this country this woman at four thirty nafta and was a two five for a normal person doesn't get to have to fight for the average person that has some experience in alcohol was passed out at three zero and a lot of people will be dead at four o five all in my thirty plus years experience the highest one i ever had was still upright was a college student who blew a four one in the afternoon and he was still not but he was still talking and walking but it seems like alcohol is always a factor and here again federal probation was contacted and this lady was lodged at the chin in county correctional center because act wouldn't would fuse there and federal probation will probably charging her because of course consumption of alcohol was one of her conditions and shows her be charged with a federal crime one of my officers officer linda muth was able to obtain information that assisted willesden p d they'd been looking for a person for a grand larceny which is a felony offense who'd been hiding from them information he obtained able to have williston contacts south burlington p both the p d s south burlington wilson went to the location that officer linda moved located and found the guy he tried to hide he tried to run but they had enough cops there that he was taken into custody so hopefully he won't be stealing people's personal property anymore for at least a little while one thing that most people don't know is a small department we have here an officer joshua hansel is also serving in the air national guard and he just like to point out that he just reached recently was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the air guard so that's a good thing for him recently in the town we've had several complaints of suspicious phone call complaints and it's generally been centered with elderly people they're getting this phone call in the person says you know i'd like to come to your house and do a security check what we found is tracing back the phone numbers these have been legitimate they've been through a d t business but because of the recent publicity with all the crimes that have been going on and this is the right thing for people to do is they call us it was simply just tracking down the phone number and finally finding the right person turns out to be a salesman we've had sort of like is that we've had several calls turns out to be the same company they're basically out there trying to find business and seeing if you want to get a security system placed in your house so they are legit if you get a call from a t t securities incorporate out of wilson vermont more likely it's the jet but if you think you have one of those calls it isn't especially if they ask for personal information never give that out that's when you hang up on them and you call us but when in doubt call us in this as simple as what we did we have a way of tracking phone numbers if you don't have caller id and this these calls have to be legitimate if you actually look at our stats we've had very few burglaries in the in this last two weeks we've had four reported burglaries another one at the lucky spot right now the we have some good video from the surveillance cameras where pretty much ninety nine percent sure  think we've identified the culprit so we do expect an arrest in that case in a short period of time our part sometimes when they know that we're looking for him is finding them because they hide from us the other burglaries you know they were called in his burglaries one is probably nothing more than a landlord tenant dispute you know they couldn't agree on their separation and they call in the police and what the public doesn't realize is law enforcement for the most part is does not get involved in civil process and i was by statute they can get involved in civil process as the sheriff's department and that's where you have to get a court order because you know you want to repossess something and then you pay the sheriff's department to go out there to actually serve the paperwork and if they say a piece of property that you want to see is it they can actually have it seized or have it seized by somebody else day to day law enforcement agencies both you know state and in this bill do not get involved in civil process even though we get called to him all the time and we end up becoming mediators and just telling him that ok this is not a criminal complaint this is a civil complaint and we can't handle that for you sometimes they don't like that and sometimes are thankful that we give them the proper routes that they can take over in my book case over there i have a big three ring binder just on and it landlord disputes which are also bill we are tired not civil as a somebody you know bounces the rent check or something like that but most everything else in the tenant landlord situation is a civil violation and it has to be handled differently than you know what we would handle as a law enforcement agency and a couple of the other burglaries are we've had recently one was a is a vacant another vacant house but we don't think anything was taken on that in that burglary at this point we're not short because it's vacant and another report of a burglary which may or may not be a burglary it was in a storage facility located out in the jonesville area and that one just happened the other day and i don't have enough information on it but we don't think anything was taken in that one or at least i don't have any information that anything was taken in that one either but luckily here in town