An armed robbery at the Smart Shop in Wallingford
last month was staged by the store manager and her boyfriend to cover up an
embezzlement of funds. It was initially
reported that the robber forced the pregnant store manager at knife point into the
bathroom and then stole an undisclosed amount of money. Investigators say the surveillance video showed
a different storey. Store Manager
32-year-old Kelly English had been embezzling from store deposits. Police say English and her boyfriend
30-year-old William Shaw, planned the robbery to cover the missing money. About $10,000 had been stolen. English said she took the money to support a
prescription drug addiction.
Charges against a former Rutland City attorney are pending,
as a deadly hit-and-run case remains under investigation. The case against Christopher Sullivan is
being reviewed by both the Rutland County state's attorney's office and the
Vermont attorney general's office. Mary
Jane Outslay died Wednesday night when she was struck as she was crossing a
street in Rutland. Sullivan has turned
in the car he was driving that night to police, and more information about the
case is expected to be released soon.
Shaw told police they used the money to support a
prescription drug addiction. A woman has been charged in a fatal accident that
happened in Bristol last November.
Police say 19-year-old Ashley Ann Nancollas of Bristol has been charged
with gross negligent operation with death resulting. Nancollas was driving on North Street in
Bristol near the intersection of Park Place when she struck a pedestrian,
86-year-old Anne Roscoe, who was crossing the street. Roscoe died as a result of her injuries. Nancollas is due in court at the end of the
month.
The Senate Finance Committee is not at all happy with the
tax package they've been handed by the House.
Yesterday, they heard from a coalition of groups who are unhappy about
the idea of removing the current sales tax exemption on vitamins and dietary
supplements. Although removing the
exemption would raise about three-million dollars for the state, the Finance
Committee agreed with the groups it would discourage the use of healthy food
supplements and medicine. House
provisions extending sales taxes to bottled water, soda and candy are still
under review.
The school budget passed Wednesday Night at the Mary Hogan
Elementary School. A group of around 20
Middlebury residents voted unanimously for the spending plan of over
$6.4-million for next school year. The
meeting lasted about an hour.
The Leicester School Budget passed on it’s second time
around. On Tuesday, voters in Leicester
voted 68 to 61 in favor of the $1.1-million spending plan. The new spending plan for the elementary
school reflects just under $10,000 in cuts from the budget proposed on Town
Meeting Day.
On May 14, resident in Vergennes will go to the polls to
vote for or against a $1.45-million bond for a new police station. The new proposal is $400,000 less than the
proposal that was shot-down on Town Meeting Day. The project cost is now roughly $1.55
million.
