PRESS RELEASE
Bellows Falls Police Department
170 Rockingham Street Bellows Falls VT
802-463-1234
CASE #: 22BF000717
OFFICER: Cpl. Ian Tuttle & Ofc. Robert LaBelle
DATE/TIME: 04/10/2022 at
approximately 0136 hours
LOCATION (specific): Hadley St, Bellows Falls
VIOLATION: Driving with a Criminally
Suspended License & Arrest Warrants (3-Instate)
ACCUSED: Tasha C. Benware (age 36)
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Brattleboro, Vermont
SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: On April 10th,
2022, at approximately 0136 hours, an officer with the Bellows Falls Police
Department conducted a motor vehicle stop on Hadley St for a motor vehicle violation.
After stopping the vehicle, the operator was identified as Tasha C. Benware, 36,
of Brattleboro. Benware’s license was discovered to be criminally suspended in
the State of Vermont and it was discovered that she also had three active
arrest warrants issued by the Vermont Superior Court.
Benware was arrested and transported to the Bellows Falls Police Department
for the purpose of processing. At the completion of processing Benware was
issued a citation to appear in Vermont Superior Court – Windham Criminal
Division to answer to the charge of DLS on 04/19/2022, per the court. Benware
was transported to Southern State Correctional Facility where she was lodged in
lieu of $600 bail.