After Bennington Police conducted an investigation of a drug overdose at a motel in town early Wednesday morning, detectives realized that drugs from recent pharmacy robberies in New York might be involved. That led to several arrests and to the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants, thousands of prescription drug pills, guns and hypodermic needles at locations in both states.
Often in crime novels or films or cop shows on television, jurisdictional disputes and jealousies among local, state and federal departments and agencies get in the way of swift, effective police work. And the public typically suffers as a result, often in dramatic fashion.
No doubt such delays and roadblocks do occur in real life, as departments, officials and agencies all seek to take credit or protect their own turf. The exact opposite seems to have taken place on Wednesday and Thursday in Vermont and nearby New York, involving police in Bennington, Hoosick Falls and Cambridge, and sheriffs with Rensselaer County, N.Y.
And the public benefited from their cooperation.
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