VSP News release // Marble Valley Correctional Center // kitchen worker (inmate) exposing correctional officers to bodily fluid while performing kitchen duties 26B4005961

VSP News Release-Incident

 

STATE OF VERMONT

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

VERMONT STATE POLICE

 

NEWS RELEASE

       

CASE#: 26B4005961

RANK/TROOPER FULL NAME:   Det. Sgt. Jesse Robson                          

STATION: Troop B-West Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), Rutland barracks                   

CONTACT#: 802 773 9101

 

DATE/TIME: 8-3-26 0151 hours

INCIDENT LOCATION: Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility (MVRCF), Rutland, VT

VIOLATION: Attempting to assault 10 MVRCF correctional officers by exposure to bodily fluid (saliva)

 

ACCUSED:  Dylan S. O'Neil                                              

AGE: 34

CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Rutland VT

 

VICTIMS: 10 on duty correctional officers assigned to the overnight shift at MVCC

 

SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: 

Staff members from the Vermont Department of Corrections contacted Vermont State Police BCI after reviewing video footage from the MVCC kitchen overnight. 

 

An inmate at the facility working as an overnight kitchen staff worker, Dylan S. O'Neil, was preparing food and utensils for the on-duty correctional officers’ meals. Video shows O’Neil holding a tray of utensils close to his face when he begins making deliberate facial and head movements that clearly indicate he was spitting onto the utensils. It appeared that O'Neil spit into the utensil tray approximately 13 times while occasionally shifting the contents in an apparent attempt to contaminate as many utensils as possible.  These utensils were then included with food trays delivered to the 10 on-duty correctional officers. 

 

On 8-6-26, O'Neil was issued a citation for the above offense.

 

No additional details from the Vermont State Police are available. The affidavit of probable cause will be filed with the court and made public following O’Neil’s arraignment. 

 

 

COURT ACTION: Yes

COURT DATE/TIME: 9-14-26 10 AM        

COURT: Rutland Criminal Court

LODGED - LOCATION:  O'Neil was transferred to Northwest Correctional Center in St. Albans VT by DOC staff.  According to DOC staff, O’Neil was incarcerated at MVCC due to underlying federal charges. 

BAIL: N/A

MUG SHOT: INCLUDED

 

 

Detective Sgt. Jesse Robson

Vermont State Police Troop B – West

124 State Place Rutland VT 05701

802 773 9101