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BARTON — A 56-year-old man from Barton was arrested this morning after police say he called Circle K and threatened to shoot people.

James Marcy is being charged with criminal threatening, following the incident.

Police say the manager at the Circle K in Barton contacted them to report a threatening phone call made by Marcy, who they say is an employee.

“Marcy had stated that he was going to go to the store and shoot everyone,” a statement issued by Corporal Callie R. Field reads.

Marcy was arrested for criminal threatening and brought before a judge this afternoon.

He was released on conditions to stay away from the store and the employees.

BARTON — A crash in Barton early this morning sent five people to the hospital, with some of the victims being transported by DHART for serious injuries, police say.

At around 2:15 a.m. police were called to the single-vehicle crash with injuries at the intersection of Hollow Road and Cross Road.

Police say the vehicle was found to be in contact with the dirt slope on the east side of Hollow Road, with the five occupants out of the vehicle with multiple injuries.

The driver was identified as Dylan Holmes-Sanborn, 18, of Newport. Police say he was not in possession of a valid operator’s license, and also found to have been operating the vehicle without the owner’s consent.

“A preliminary crash investigation revealed Holmes-Sanborn had been operating on Cross Road at an imprudent speed, crossed the intersection of Cross Road and Hollow Road, and collided with the dirt slope,” a statement issued by Trooper Daniel Lynch reads.

Holmes-Sanborn, along with four juvenile passengers, were transported to North Country Hospital by EMS.

Police say the injuries the juveniles suffered are considered to be serious, and that DHART air medical transport was requested.

Police are still investigating the crash, and say more information will be released later.

NEWPORT — A 32-year-old Barton man was sentenced to twenty-five years in jail based on his conviction for receiving child pornography.

Earlier this week a judge sentenced William Allen for his crimes. He will have to serve a lifetime period of supervised release after completing his prison sentence.

Allen, who has prior Vermont convictions for possessing child pornography and for lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, was initially charged in state court with child pornography offenses in June 2014.

A federal indictment was returned in July 2015 against Allen and his wife, Kerissa Allen, for child pornography charges.

Kerissa pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in February 2016. William pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography in August 2016. Kerissa was previously sentenced to four years in jail based on her guilty plea.

At the sentencing hearing for William Allen, which began June 27, the government presented evidence that Allen sexually abused three children prior to his state arrest.

Based on that evidence, the court found that Allen had engaged in a pattern of sexual abuse of children within the meaning of the federal sentencing guidelines.

Even though Allen was convicted of receiving child pornography, the court could and did consider Allen’s contact offenses against children in fashioning the appropriate sentence.

Because of Allen’s prior convictions, he faced a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years in jail. The court agreed with the government that William and Kerissa Allen took digital images of the abuse of two of the children, though the storage media for those images was never located.

Further, the judge found that Allen urged Kerissa Allen to attempt to falsely take the blame for his child pornography crimes charged by the state.

NEWPORT — A Newport man was sentenced to serve up to ten years in prison after stabbing someone in the face with a pen back in 2015.

Gregory Willis, 37, was in court last week where he pled guilty to a felony charge of aggravated domestic assault.

As part of the plea agreement the state dismissed another charge of aggravated domestic assault, as well as three other misdemeanor charges.

Willis was charged with attacking a 41-year-old man from Barton at his home back on June 2, 2015.

According to court records, the two were arguing at the time about Willis’s wife, Kimberly Willis, a 34-year-old woman who was found dead two weeks before the incident, in Albany.

The affidavit states that the victim told police Willis had attacked him with a pen, catching him in the head and face several times.

When police arrived at the scene of the altercation, they found blood inside the home, as well as the broken pen.
The victim was bleeding in several spots, including his chin, eyebrow, and near his ear.

Willis fled and could not be located when police arrived, but he turned himself in later in the day. He was taken into custody for the assault and violation of conditions of release charges.

Willis originally told police that the assault was an accident, and that he was just trying to get the man to stop talking about his wife.

Kimberly Willis’s autopsy showed there was no foul play in her death. Her body was found a quarter-mile from her car parked on Shutesville Road, in May of 2015.

Willis will serve between 18 months and ten years, with credit for time served, for the assault.

BARTON — A 45-year-old woman was killed in a car crash on I-91 in Barton, Monday evening.

The incident took place at around 8:00 p.m.

Police say Stacy Bissell, 45, of White River Junction, was traveling southbound on I-91 when her 2014 Honda Accord traveled through the median and into the northbound lanes.

Bissell’s vehicle collided with a 2006 Subaru, operated by Richard Farrar, 59, of Newport.

Both vehicles sustained significant damage and Bissell was pronounced dead at the scene.

Farrar was transported to North Country Hospital.

Police say it is still unclear if speed or alcohol played a role in the crash, but that the incident is still under investigation.

There were initial reports that one of the vehicles was on fire, however, that was not confirmed.

Precautionary measures were taken by Barton Fire Department.

Troopers from Derby and St. Johnsbury were at the scene, along with personnel from Barton Ambulance.

NEWPORT — A corrections guard from Barton working at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport, pled guilty to stealing money from an inmate as she was being booked.

Ryan Duquette, 39, of Barton, plead no contest to a charge of petty larceny after police say he was caught pocketing a $100 bill while an inmate was being processed.

The incident took place back on August 13, 2015, when court records say a video camera caught Duquette putting the $100 bill in his pocket, when it should have been placed inside the prison’s safe.

The investigation was opened when the woman was released from jail and did not receive her money back.

Duquette was given a suspended sentence of one to three months, after pleading guilty to the larceny charge that was knocked down from the original charge of embezzlement.