Steeple & Maplefield's

STATE OF VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
VERMONT STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE

INCIDENTS: Retail Theft

CASE #: 11A200235

TROOPER: Vermont State Police
STATION: St. Albans
CONTACT#: 802-524-5993

DATE/TIME: 01/09/2011, 1100 hours
LOCATION (specific): Maplefield's Service Station, Georgia, VT

VIOLATION: Retail Theft

ACCUSED: Chad Paquette
AGE: 31
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Burlington Area

ACCUSED: Sean Maring
AGE: 29
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Burlington, VT

VICTIM: Maplefield's Service Station, Georgia, VT

SUMMARY OF INCIDENT:

On 01/10/2011 State Troopers travelled to the Maplefield's Service Station in Georgia, VT to review store surveillance video as they worked to locate Shane Woodard - one of the offenders in the Steeple's Market Burglary (perpetrated in late December).

During this video review, Troopers observed two males, identified as 29-year-old Sean Maring of Burlington, VT and 31-year-old Chad Paquette of the Burlington area, captured on store surveillance stealing sandwiches. Paquette - who was wanted on Escape charges during this theft - and Maring were captured on video putting the deli retail into their jackets and down their pants.

Maplefield's personnel had previously been unaware of this theft of their merchandise until VSP responded and asked to review Maplefield's store video.

Paquette and Maring were also identified as associates of Shane Woodard, the offender of the Steeple's Market burglary, and had been at the Georgia Maplefield's with Woodard during this theft.

Before Troopers could locate Paquette or Maring, the two offenders were arrested and lodged pursuant to Paquette's arrest warrant and an unrelated offense Maring had perpetrated in Chittenden County.

Both Paquette and Maring were issued citations while they were lodged at the Chittenden County Correctional Facility. Both are scheduled to appear in Franklin County District Court on 02/28/2011 at 1:00pm to answer the charge of Retail Theft.