Former Vermont deputy sentenced after shooting at drivers during road rage incident
A former Orange County Sheriff's deputy was sentenced on Wednesday after he was found guilty of shooting into a car during a road rage incident.
Officials sentenced 52-year-old William Pine of Brookfield, Vermont, to serve 18 months to 10 years in prison, with credit for approximately four months of in-patient treatment.
Pine had been found guilty of two counts of aggravated assault for shooting into a car and attempting to harm two people during an incident at an intersection in Williamstown back in October of 2019.
Pine also provided false information to Vermont State Police when he lied about the incident during a subsequent interview.
Officials said Pine was off-duty at the time of the incident.
The Court ordered Pine to serve concurrent sentences of 17 months to nine years and six months on each aggravated assault charge.
Consecutive to those sentences, the court ordered Pine to serve one month to six months on the false information to a law enforcement officer charge.