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Judge approves search warrant for cellphone in deadly Vt. crash
NORTH HERO, Vt. (WCAX) – A judge has signed off on a request to search a cellphone in connection with a crash that killed a 20-year-old motorcyclist back in June.
The judge granted the request from the Grand Isle County state’s attorney for Ellen Willson’s phone.
Prosecutors believe Willson was using the phone when she drove her truck across the center line on Route 2 in North Hero, hitting Hunter Rounds and his father. Rounds was killed and his dad was seriously injured in the Father’s Day crash.
Court paperwork indicates that after police seized Willson’s phone at the scene, she requested to use it to get a phone number, but then admitted to deleting a message. She claimed it was unrelated to the crash.
Willson is not in jail but is under court conditions that she not drive.
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