The sordid events leading up to the brutal 2022 murder of Massachusetts teenager Isaiah Rodriguez in Danby serves as a microcosm of the gang-related violence, drugs, and crimes that came to our community and still lingers in the shadows here in Bennington.
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The first two in a string of coming arrests for the murder of teenager Isaiah Rodriguez in Danby in 2022 were arrested Monday morning by investigators from the Vermont State Police as they showed up for an unconnected arraignment at the Bennington Courthouse.
The defendant in a years-long child sex assault case violated his conditions of probation minutes after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of prohibited conduct, a misdemeanor, with a suspended sentence, by contacting the young victim minutes after an emotional victim’s statement.
Bennington Judge Kerry McDonald-Cady shot down a defense motion Thursday morning asking for the release from custody of a defendant accused in a 2023 shooting in which he is facing a possible life sentence for attempted murder. The charge against Arron O Shea stems from allegedly shooting at a friend multiple times at close range, hitting the victim at least one time, in a wooded area in Bennington known as “the desert.”