Hartford man pleads guilty in drug raid near high school

Police remove evidence from an apartment on Hartford Avenue near Hartford High School in White River Junction, Vt., following a search on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Police remove evidence from an apartment on Hartford Avenue near Hartford High School in White River Junction, Vt., following a search on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. James M. Patterson

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Valley News Staff Writer

Published: 01-09-2025 4:32 PM

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 54-year-old Hartford man whose home across the street from Hartford High School was the target of a police raid in 2023, pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor count of cocaine possession.

James Ingerson was sentenced to serve one to two days in prison, all covered by time already served, in Windsor County Superior Court on Jan. 3, according to court records.

An accompanying state misdemeanor charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm was dismissed with prejudice.

Ingerson is at present in pre-trial detention at an out-of-state facility on a federal possession of a firearm charge stemming from the weapon that was seized by police during the 2023 raid of his Hartford residence, according to Department of Corrections and U.S. District Court records.

A plea agreement under seal has been entered in the federal case, court records show.

Ingerson also has drug charges pending against him in Grafton County. A dispositional conference in that case is set for Feb. 4.

An attorney representing Ingerson in his Vermont state case did not respond to an email for comment on Wednesday.

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