CASE#: 22SJ004764
OFFICER: Gerrish / Cpl. Hartwell
AGENCY: St. Johnsbury Police Department
CONTACT#: 802-748-2314
DATE/TIME: November 6, 2022 @ 0046
LOCATION: Railroad Street
VIOLATION: Impeding Public Officers, Eluding a Police Officer, [EXPUNGED]
ACCUSED: Robert Guest, Jr (28)
RESIDENCE: Lyndon, VT
SUMMARY OF INCIDENT:
On November 6, 2022 at about 0046 hours, a St. Johnsbury Police Department patrol officer observed a motor vehicle violation on Memorial Drive. The vehicle was stopped on Railroad Street in the Walgreens parking lot. Contact was made with the operator, Robert Guest, Jr, who was found to be operating a motor vehicle while under lifetime suspension due to past DUI actions. Guest subsequently took leg bail off into the brushy area between the railroad tracks behind Railroad Street and St. Mary’s Street. An exhaustive search of the surrounding area was made with the support of the Vermont State Police. Guest was later contacted via telephone and he turned himself into the police station on the afternoon of November 6, 2022. Guest will face arraignment in this matter on January 23, 2023 at 0830 hours in Caledonia Superior Court. Guest’s vehicle was hauled away by McKay’s Towing of Lunenberg, VT.
