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Considerable clouds this evening. Some decrease in clouds late. Slight chance of a rain shower. Low 47F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph..
Considerable clouds this evening. Some decrease in clouds late. Slight chance of a rain shower. Low 47F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Updated: May 4, 2024 @ 9:09 pm
Vermont Community Newspaper Group
A Morrisville man will serve one to five years in jail for assaulting his girlfriend and forcing her to take a harrowing ride as he tried to elude police.
Kane Plante Jr., 22, pleaded guilty Dec. 18 in Lamoille Superior Court to domestic assault and attempting to elude police. Under a plea agreement, charges of unlawful restraint, careless or negligent driving, providing false information to police, and violating conditions of release were dropped.
Plante admitted kicking and punching his girlfriend, Tristen Goodwin Hicks, on July 8 after an argument at Pine Crest Trailer Park. Afterwards, he forced her into the back seat of her Subaru Forester and sped down Golf Course Road, where Morristown police officer Scott McCollough saw the car run a stop sign. McCollough tried to stop the car, but it sped up curvy, unpaved Goetz Road at speeds of up to 60 mph, according to court records.
When the car stopped at the end of Goetz Road, Hicks was in the driver’s seat, and said she had been driving. Plante told McCollough he had ordered Hicks to elude police because he was afraid that neighbors may have reported their argument.
Plante, who is prohibited from drinking alcohol under the conditions of a previous conviction, registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.099, above the .08 considered legal proof of intoxication.
Hicks and Plante were questioned at the Morristown police station and later released.
However, after watching a tape of the pursuit, captured by a camera in his police car, McCollough saw that Hicks had been sitting in the back seat, and switched places with Plante just after the car stopped.
When he questioned Hicks, she admitted she had pretended to be the driver to protect Plante.
The judge banned Plante from contacting Hicks, and ordered him to spend 24 months on probation after he gets out of prison.
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