STATE OF VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
VERMONT STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
INCIDENT: Update -- Arrest of Offender in Steeple Market Burglary
CASE #: 10A205834
TROOPER: Vermont State Police
STATION: VSP-St. Albans
CONTACT#: 802-524-5993
DATE/TIME: Offense Committed 12/30/2010, 0334 hours
LOCATION (specific): Steeples Market, Fairfsx, VT
VIOLATION: Commercial Burglary
ACCUSED: Shane Woodard
AGE: 35
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Jericho, VT // Transient
VICTIM: Steeple Market, Farifax
SUMMARY OF INCIDENT:
As previously reported by the Vermont State Police St. Albans Barracks, on
12/30/2010 at approximately 0334 hours the Steeple Market in Fairfax, VT was
burglarized.
After an extensive investigation with collaboration between the Vermont State
Police in St. Albans and Williston and the Essex Police Department, one of the
offenders in this case was identified as 35-year-old Shane Woodard.
On 01/22/2011 after a two-week manhunt, Woodard was arrested in Chittenden
County by Troopers assigned to the Williston Barracks.
During the subsequent processing, Woodard - a self-identified crack-cocaine
addict - admitted to his role in the Steeple Market Burglary. Woodard further
admitted his role in the perpetration of several other commercial burglaries in
northern Chittenden County.
Woodard was ultimately transported to the Chittenden County Correctional
Facility where he was lodged for lack of $25,000 bail.
Woodard is scheduled to appear in Franklin County District Court on 01/24/2011
at 1:00pm to answer the charge of Burglary.
NOTE: The Vermont State Police St. Albans Barracks are seeking 31-year-old Chad
Paquette for questioning regarding his role in the Steeple Market Burglary.
Paquette currently has several warrants for his arrest inlcuding Failure to Appear and Escape.
Anyone with information regarding the location of Paquette is asked to notify VSP-St. Albans
at 802-524-5993.