Recent finds

Trooper Trudeau of VSP Bratt assisted at a motor vehicle stop on I-91 in Rockingham. K9-Gally was deployed and he alerted hard on the vehicle. A search warrant was issued located in the vehicle was approximately 3.32 ounces of cocaine.

Sergeant Whitehead and K-9 Braden (Brandon PD) were called to assist with a traffic stop. On an exterior sweep of the vehicle K-9 Braden alerted twice. After consent was obtained, an 8th ounce of marijuana was located.

K-9 Tazor and Officer Dewey (Colchester PD) assisted in locating a male who had fled after driving his snowmobile down a main road in August. The male stopped, fled into the woods and into a swamp. The male was found hiding in the swamp, charged with DUI4.

Officer Post and K-9 Bricks (Rutland PD) were sent to a family fight at local hotel. As they attempt to make contact the suspect boogied out a back window. K-9 Bricks started a track and through heavily populated residential yards to a junk into full sprint towards a deck. As they approached the deck the suspect emerged from under 4 feet of water drinking a beer. The suspect was quoted as saying "I wont fight or run with him here."

K-9 Cairo with Trooper Lombardi assisted Lamoille outpost with a drug sniff of a vehicle. Cairo alerted on the vehicle, a search warrant was later obtained and a few grams of MJ were found under the passenger side front seat.

VSP responded to Rutland Town to a report of a missing 83 year old male. The elderly man was last seen walking with his dog toward a wooded area. Approximately 1 hour into searching, a K-9 Mitch with Trooper Giolito located the elderly man in a wooded area.