Monday, January 4, 2021

21SJ000025 - Arrest on Warrant / Impeding Public Officers / Resisting Arrest x2 / Disorderly Conduct

ST. JOHNSBURY POLICE DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE

CASE#: 21SJ000025
OFFICER: Cpl. Hartwell, Ofcs. Gerrish & Guyer
CONTACT#: (802)748-2314

DATE/TIME: 01/04/2021 @ 0119
LOCATION: South Main & Bay Streets
VIOLATION: Arrest on Felony Warrant, Impeding Public Officers, Resisting Arrest x 2 and Disorderly Conduct

ACCUSED: Jonathan M. Fuller (34)
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: St. Johnsbury, Vermont

SUMMARY OF INCIDENT:
On the above date & time, a St. Johnsbury Police Department patrol officer observed a suspicious vehicle having difficulty in the snow at the rail trail parking lot off South Main Street. Contact was made with the operator and occupants, when it was determined that a passenger, Jonathan Fuller, had an active felony warrant for heroin possession. Fuller then fled the scene on foot towards the town wastewater treatment facility and through the adjacent woods along Bay Street while being pursued by St. Johnsbury police officers. Vermont State police quickly provided assistance. After a brief scuffle near 501 Bay Street, Fuller was soon arrested by Cpl. Hartwell with the help of responding troopers. Fuller was lodged at the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility on $500 bail for the warrant and cited for the other crimes into Caledonia Superior Court for March 8, 2021 at 1000.