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West Glover woman denies attempted murder

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by Joseph Gresser

NEWPORT — Police say a West Glover woman fired a volley of shots at the pickup truck driven by a departing caller.  Alaina Bouchard, 35, of West Glover was brought into the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court here Monday and pled innocent to felony charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault and, also, reckless endangerment and criminal threatening.

Judge Rory Thibault ordered Ms. Bouchard held without bail, but scheduled a weight of evidence hearing for the afternoon of September 11, to determine whether to keep her jailed.

In an affidavit in support of the charges, Vermont State Police Trooper Anthony West said he was sent to Bean Hill Road in West Glover a little after midnight on Saturday to investigate a “weapons offense.”

A supplemental affidavit from Trooper Mark Pohlman took up the story saying a man called 911 and said he had been fired at while in his truck and leaving Ms. Bouchard’s home….

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Photograph of the truck’s rear window that was allegedly shot out.. From court records

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