Vermont State Police charged an unruly New Hampshire man with aggravated assault and unlawful trespassing after he broke into a Bristol house early Saturday and tried to attack residents, according to a police report.
At 2:25 a.m., troopers responded to a disturbance on Carterville Road and found that Isaac Crawford,22, of Keene, New Hampshire was using methamphetamine when he got into the house while the residents were sleeping.
Police said the residents did not know him and Crawford unsuccessfully swung a baseball bat at one of them and then a pickax at a neighbor who came to help.
Crawford was arrested, taken to the New Haven barracks for processing and then to the Northwest Regional Correctional Facility on $10,000 bail with a citation to appear in Addison County Superior Court next week.
Troopers were assisted by the Bristol Rescue Squad and Middlebury Regional EMS for precautionary evaluations, the report stated.
– Auditi Guha
