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Vermont State Police An exhaustive ground search along Poker Hill Road in Underhill has uncovered no signs of Leydi Lopez. With the onset of darkness and additional investigative leads, the Vermont State Police is scaling back its outdoors search effort and concentrating on work by detectives from the Criminal Division.
Police would like to speak with anyone who traveled in the vicinity of Poker Hill Road and Timber Ridge Road from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Jan. 27, and saw anything unusual or possibly connected to this investigation.
Members of the public with information may call the Vermont State Police in Williston at 802-878-7111 or leave an anonymous tip online at www.vtips.us.
State Police searching for missing woman, 18, from Underhill
January 28, 2021 GMT
UNDERHILL, Vt. (AP) Vermont State Police detectives continued to search Thursday for a missing 18-year-old woman who was last seen leaving her Underhill home to go for a walk.
Leydi Lopez left her home on Poker Hill Road around 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. Her family reported her missing about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Police say investigators are considering all possibilities related to the missing-persons case.
Police say Lopez may have encountered an orange car that had slid off Poker Hill Road and a second vehicle, a dark-colored pickup truck, possibly a Chevrolet, with a cap and building material in the bed, that had stopped to help pull the orange car back onto the road.
East Cleveland City Council president demands firing of police officer who shot teen during pursuit
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio The president of the City Council is demanding that a police officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old male during a foot chase last week be fired.
Korean Stevenson pushed for the firing of Sgt. Larry McDonald on Wednesday in a letter to Mayor Brandon King. Stevenson points out in the letter that McDonald did not have his body camera activated when the shooting death of Vincent Belmonte occurred on Jan. 5.
“As a result of Sgt. McDonald’s overt and deliberate actions, the public, our constituents, and the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (who is charged with investigating the shooting) will not have access to any video and audio data,” Stevenson writes. “As an elected official and a citizen of the City of East Cleveland, these actions constitute a unilateral decision to remove police conduct from public scrutiny. This goes agai
Police: Prolific burglar charged in three break-ins in Stamford
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Daniel Oler, 49, of Stamford, was charged with breaking into three businesses on Stamford s West Side in April 2020.Stamford Police Department / Contributed
STAMFORD A local man is already facing burglary charges in five other municipalities has been arrested on charges of breaking into three Stamford businesses back in April, police said.
Daniel Oler, 49, of Stamford, was charged with three counts of burglary, three counts of criminal mischief and two counts of second-degree larceny, police said. He was held on $250,000 court appearance bond.
“Oler is a prolific burglar that has arrests that span the last few decades,” Bureau of Criminal Investigations Lt. Tom Scanlon said. “Sgts. Chris Felmen-Merced and Sean Scanlan did a great job piecing together various elements of circumstantial evidence to build a solid case. Without question, had Oler not been apprehended, he would have continu