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Perry
Police said one of the women was trying to raise money to bail out a friend, but now she must come up with $5,000 in bail herself.
Worse, the woman contacted someone named Mark, of Mendon, who she thought could purchase 14 grams of crack cocaine, the police affidavit said.
Instead, she contacted Officer Mark Fiore of the Castleton Police Department. Fiore worked with other agencies including Vermont State Police and the Rutland City Police Department.
Sharese C. Perry, 37, of Brockton, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony charge of possession of more than 2.5 grams of cocaine.
As of 4 p.m. Thursday, Perry was being held in the Rutland jail after failing to post $5,000 in bail.
Trooper Christopher Loyzelle, in an affidavit, said Fiore called VSP Sgt. Lucas Hall on Wednesday to describe the phone call.
Fiore said a woman called him believing he was a different person named Mark, around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday. The woman said “Barbie” had been arrested Tuesday night in Quincy, Massachusetts, and “she needed to come up with $5,000 to make Barbie’s bail,” Fiore said.
The woman, who called herself Kim, asked if Mark would buy crack cocaine if she brought it to Rutland.
Affidavits filed in the case aren’t clear regarding who called Fiore. Three people, including Perry, were in the car that was stopped in a parking lot Thursday but none were named Kim, according to affidavits.
Loyzelle’s affidavit said Fiore “entertained Kim’s request” and agreed to meet her at a commercial parking lot on Route 4 in Rutland at 10 p.m. Wednesday to complete the sale.
Fiore said Kim had asked why they couldn’t meet at his house and he said he didn’t want his neighbors to become suspicious.
Police set up surveillance in the parking lot. When a car came to the parking lot around 12:40 a.m. on Thursday, Hall and Loyzelle approached and spoke to the driver, Monique Chire Hinton-Henry.
Loyzelle said a woman in the backseat, later identified as Perry, was holding two cell phones, one of them operating a program that provides driving directions.
A third woman, Audrey Franklin, was in the front seat, Loyzelle said.
Perry and Franklin said they didn’t know why they were in Vermont and were “just asked to go for a ride” and believed they were going to a ski resort, Loyzelle said.
While at the parking lot, Rutland Police Officer Nathan Harvey and his K-9 Unit, Cobalt, conducted a search. Cobalt alerted to the presence of narcotics, Harvey said.
Loyzelle said when police took the three women to the Rutland barracks, Franklin agreed to speak to police. She said “they smoked crack the entire ride to Vermont,” the affidavit said.
“She advised the plan was to have (the other Mark) give them the money they needed or get paid to perform a sexual favor,” Loyzelle said.
After obtaining a search warrant, police allegedly found 13.8 grams of crack cocaine Loyzelle said Perry had hidden inside her body.
At Perry’s arraignment Thursday, attorney Chris Davis, who represented Perry, asked Judge Thomas Zonay to consider an unsecured bond or a bond for which Perry would have to post a percentage of the total.
Deputy Rutland County State’s Attorney Daron Raleigh asked Zonay to set bail at $10,000.
Zonay told Davis he had considered a bail that might be easier to post, but said he thought $5,000 was necessary because Perry had no ties to Vermont and had allegedly come to Vermont for the sole purpose of selling drugs.
One of the better stories of the morning.