http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131021/NEWS02/710219945
Published October 21, 2013 in the Rutland Herald More felony charges added to man’s slate By ERIC FRANCIS CORRESPONDENT WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Weathersfield man who was already facing three felony charges in August for allegedly leading police on a pursuit through downtown Springfield on a dirt bike was back in court recently on three more felony charges. Joey Bergeron, 32, has been held at the Springfield jail since August for lack of $15,000 bail, but the new charges stem from police investigations this summer. In one of the new cases, witnesses told police they had seen Bergeron driving a gray 3-wheeler at a high rate of speed through the Upper Falls covered bridge and across a field and shortly thereafter saw him behind the wheel of a red Toyota Tundra pickup which had its rear window smashed out. Weathersfield Police Chief William Davies wrote in his affidavit that the pickup appeared to have been the one that was stolen from the parking lot of a store in Downers Four Corners on Aug. 4 belonging to Russell Payson of Windsor. Payson had left it there that day while he caught a ride with friends to a fishing tournament on Lake Champlain. The pickup was recovered the next day near the gun range on Route 106 “in complete disarray” with “extensive damage,” according to a statement Payson completed for police. The missing gray 3-wheeler was eventually recovered on a snowmobile trail off Amisden School Road. Bergeron pleaded innocent to felony counts of operating without the owner’s consent and unlawful mischief and a misdemeanor count of petty larceny, all in connection with the pickup truck theft. Two weeks ago, Bergeron pleaded innocent to a felony count of possession of stolen property for the theft of a black Polaris ATV from a Ludlow resident that state police said came to light after a Rockingham couple said they purchased it from Bergeron for $3,000 cash in July. After Vermont State Police Capt. Ray Keefe took a look at the ATV and used the VIN number on it to confirm it had been reported stolen, he said the disappointed couple turned over a handwritten sales receipt signed by “Seller Joe Bergeron” stating it was “as is — no warranty.” In August, Bergeron pleaded innocent to attempting to elude police, grossly negligent operation of a vehicle and aggravated operation of a vehicle without the owner’s consent after police said that Bergeron stole a gray Can-Am 3-wheeler out of the driveway of a former employer in Ludlow. Bergeron now faces a total of six felony charges in Vermont, where he has been charged as a habitual offender due to his history, which includes nearly two dozen convictions for crimes ranging from burglary and possession of stolen property to escape. He also has open criminal cases pending in Massachusetts and Connecticut that he will face once he resolves his Vermont charges.
His parents must be very proud.
ReplyDeleteWe are. This is the first thing he has done without us doing it for him.
ReplyDelete"Praise the Lord. He's finally left home". Mom
ReplyDeleteThis has nothing to do with the parents, it's the inept criminal justice system that has created him and many more like him. Slaps on the hand just don't work the way they use to. Lock him up, and throw away the key.
ReplyDeleteHow naïve are you? Your parents make you and teach you right from wrong. The justice system is just a reaction to the poor parenting.
ReplyDeleteThe parents use to take care of their children, our liberal government has stepped into to seize control of that obligation.
DeleteAnon at 11:27 your post shows just how ignorant you are.
ReplyDeleteJust because parents try to instill values in their children does not mean those children follow/accept them. If that were the case, we wouldn't have so many criminals in this world. Stop blaming the parents, this guy made his own choices and his own life. Just leave the parents out of it. I know his parents and I know for a fact they didn't spend their Friday and Saturday nights looting and pillaging. They are normal, hard working people who did everything they could to straighten Joe out when he was a teen. Nothing worked, including the criminal justice system.
ReplyDeleteLife isn't so black & white as you all think it is.
ReplyDeleteHahaha...always blame someone other than yourself.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, always blame someone other than yourself.
ReplyDeleteThank heavens you've all posted as Anonymous! You'll never have to show your face in public knowing that you've had to eat your words.
ReplyDeleteLife is more complex than you think. A couple of U of Chicago scientists have just published a paper showing that the stresses of poverty produce children and adults who make very bad choices. In other words, you can't blame the parents solely for how a child turns out, especially if the parents were products of poverty themselves.
If you look at First World societies-- Japan, Germany, Britain, Canada (the US, although on paper an economic powerhouse, is no longer a First World country by most measures), they have far lower rates of childhood poverty and consequently far lower rates of criminality than we do.
So, what would you like to see us do to regain our former pre-eminence?
So it all comes back to money huh Chuck? No wonder the socialist countries with their "share the wealth" attitude are doing so well in the criminal justice and parenting arenas. I grew up way below the poverty threshold and have yet to spend a day in jail and have actually managed to gain an income well above the State Average. Sorry Chuck, your copy and paste comments hold no water with me (us).
DeleteChuck, what have you been smoking? Stresses of poverty???? What stress? Sleep till noon, Show up at Park Street market in your pajamas, pull out the EBT card, get beer, cigarettes and scratch tickets. Spend the day watching your big screen, cable TV, endlessly texting on the Obama phone. Free medical and dental care. Free job training. Yeah, a retirement plan like that sounds pretty sweet.
DeleteHow about the stress of competing to gain acceptance into a top tier school? Stress of earning a medical/engineering/law/math/physics or other demanding degree. What about the stress of paying student loans, a mortgage, job stability, health care costs, raising a respectable family, saving for retirement, paying taxes, home heating bills, etc., etc.,
Poverty has NOTHING to do with Bergeron's crimes. His irresponsible parents never had the decorum or common courtesy to make the kid apologize to neighbors when caught stealing as a child.
I can assure you, Mr. Bergeron did not grow up in poverty, so there goes your theory, ahem, Mr. Gregory (aka anonymous).
ReplyDeletePoverty is not limited to finances. Paris Hilton has a poverty mentality; so does Charlie Sheen...
DeleteI know this person's famuly personally. He comes from an upstanding background. His father is well know respected professional. On that note we raise them right, at certain point in time they all make their choices whether or not they were brought up right. Our CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES are punishment based NOT Correcting behavioral or emotional conditions. Treatment is non existent.
ReplyDeleteMy rule of thumb: once is a mistake, twice is stupid, and three times is criminal.
ReplyDeleteParents don't teach; children learn by interpreting what their parents both say and do; clearly, Bergeron not only learned things in the wrong way, but he doesn't know how to learn from experience. Just like Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen...