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Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan announced that Michael Powers, 27, of Bennington, Vermont, was arraigned today on two felony counts of Promotion of Child Sexual Abuse Materials, seven misdemeanor counts and one felony count of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Materials, and one count of Resisting Arrest.
The charges brought against Mr. Powers are the result of a criminal investigation including the execution of residential and online data search warrants conducted by the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (VT-ICAC), including personnel from the Attorney General’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations, the Vermont State Police, and the Bennington Police Department.
A South Burlington man, who officials say has been found with firearms after two state court rulings that he was mentally defective, is now behind bars on a new federal gun charge.
Amrou R. Mohamed, 25, is charged with knowingly possessing a loaded firearm after he âhad been previously adjudicated as a mental defective,â according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington.
South Burlington and Burlington Police say they have repeatedly dealt with Mohmed for multiple gun cases in the last five years, including two shootings at his familyâs residence at 478 Lime Kiln Road in 2016 and 2018, records show.
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The Vermont Drug Task Force has completed a drug trafficking investigation with the arrest of a Grand Isle, Vermont man.
The Vermont Drug Task Force, Franklin County Sheriff s Department, Grand Isle Sheriff s Department, South Burlington Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Drug Enforcement Administration executed a search warrant last week at the home of 63 year old Michael Larrow of Grand Isle.
He was arrested on suspicion of sale of heroin and fentanyl trafficking.
Larrow will appear in Vermont Superior Court in September to answer the charges.
Police had been investigating the case since October 2020.
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