http://rutlandherald.com/article/20140702/NEWS02/707029914
PHOTO BY ERIC FRANCIS Martin Gonyea, 27, of Springfield, pleaded innocent Monday in White River Junction criminal court to charges of disorderly conduct and violating the conditions of his release. Published July 2, 2014 in the Rutland Herald Drug case suspect returns to court By ERIC FRANCIS CORRESPONDENT WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield man whom authorities suspect of being a drug dealer with the street nickname “Little G” was back in court Monday accused of violating his pre-trial release conditions. Martin “Marty” Gonyea, 27, had been released in mid-May after he pleaded innocent to a felony count of selling heroin as well as to an accompanying misdemeanor count of possession of bath salts. As part of his court-ordered conditions, Gonyea was prohibited from possessing any dangerous or deadly weapons, including knives, while his cases are pending. Springfield Police officers Robert Keleey and Larry Muldoon responded to Main Street on Saturday morning after a caller reported that Gonyea was repeatedly tossing a large throwing knife into the wooden sign in front of the Hole in the Hill Pub. “Gonyea saw us at the traffic lights, turned the sign around and put it back where it belongs and walked away,” Keleey recalled in his report. Keleey wrote that he walked up to Gonyea and removed the nine-inch knife from Gonyea’s front pocket. Once he was handcuffed and in the police cruiser, Gonyea told police that the “knife was not a deadly weapon…a knife is a tool,” Keleey reported. During his original arrest on the drug charges in April, police said Gonyea had a glass crack pipe fall out of his clothing and shatter on the floor of the Springfield Police Department as he was being fingerprinted. When that happened, police said, Gonyea insisted the item did not belong to him. Gonyea pleaded innocent Monday to misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and violating a condition of pre-trial release. He was re-released on the same pre-trial conditions.
Oh well, another day at the White River Junction courts, where another accused is "re-released" to continue preying on our community. Our court system is seriously out of touch with the majority of people who are law abiding citizens.
ReplyDeleteThat's because most judges, legislators, and governors, thanks to their very tidy government paychecks, get to live in neighborhoods far removed from those plagued by the criminal element. Until that time at which such "social pains" affect their own lives, they will continue to turn their backs on the rest of us and continue to dump this garbage back on our streets.
ReplyDeletehe was throwing a knife on Saturday morning? and re-released under the same conditions he was violating! well, the court's message to him is clear: more power to you, Little G. I'm glad I decided it might not be a good idea to go to the Farmer's Market.
ReplyDeleteSo what were the consequences for breaking his pre trial conditions. OK little G. you got one more chance to get this right? Or three more?
ReplyDeleteWhat is going on in White River court? This is just plain crazy????
Little G? That name is nickname is straight up wack. Looks like home boy has been on a Big Mac attack. Gots to be using that knife to be cutting calories, and not signs. Straight up gangsta of the mean streets of Springvegas.
ReplyDeletethis is springfield
ReplyDeleteis this guy okay? I seen him hanging out alot where I work
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