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Burlington Free Press -- April 11, 2006
By Matt Sutkoski
Free Press Staff Writer
April 11, 2006
A long string of home burglaries in northwestern Vermont came to an end Friday when Colchester Police Detective Edward Fournier noticed a car with an odd paint job, prosecutors and court papers indicate.
Fournier was in Hinesburg at about 11 a.m. Friday, helping with a traffic detail when he saw a white Subaru with a blue hood on Pond Road, near Champlain Valley Union High School. According to court papers, Fournier remembered a witness telling him of a similar car spotted near the site of a home burglary the day before on U.S. 7 in Colchester.
Fournier stopped the car on Aube Ridge Road. Allie Duda, 24, of Morrisville was driving, and her passengers were Jonathan Hinton of Burlington and Korey Murray of Underhill, both 25. The two men were charged with burglary of an occupied building, and more charges are likely, authorities said.
The detective said several items in the car, including video games and pillow cases, were similar to items reported stolen in Colchester and Milton. Police said they also found a backpack containing marijuana in the car. Other officers who arrived at the traffic stop found more items, including property stolen from a Hinesburg home and a receipt containing the name and address of the homeowner, police said.
Authorities also said the victim of a Charlotte burglary said photos of Hinton and Murray matched the two men he saw on his property at the time of the break-in.
In statements to police, Duda said she drove Hinton and Murray to burglaries in Charlotte, Colchester, Fairfax, Hinesburg, Morrisville, Starksboro and Stowe, according to an affidavit Fournier wrote.
Hinton and Murray are being held at the Chittenden County Correctional Facility. They appeared in Vermont District Court in Burlington on Monday and invoked a little-used rule that allows them to wait 24 hours before entering their pleas.
They are scheduled to do that in court today. Colchester police did not return a phone call seeking comment about whether Duda might be charged.
Richmond police are investigating whether the pair were involved in burglaries in that town. Hinton and Murray will likely face burglary charges in Addison, Franklin and Lamoille counties, Colchester police said. Other people might be charged in connection with the burglaries, authorities said.
Contact Matt Sutkoski at 660-1846 or
msutkosk@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com
Additional Information may also be found on the Channel 5 website at:
http://www.thechamplainchannel.com/news/8609668/detail.html?taf=pla
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