Police caught a burglar inside Champlain Farms on Friday

ST. JOHNSBURY — Police caught a burglar inside Champlain Farms on Friday who had been blocked from leaving the store by a store employee’s car. Lucien Riggie, 39, of Sutton, was arrested inside the store on Friday morning by Sgt. Lester Cleary, of the St. Johnsbury Police Department, and arraigned later that day in Caledonia Superior Court for crimes of burglary and petty larceny. Riggie is accused of using a stick of firewood bundled for sale outside the store to smash a window of the Railroad Street store to gain entry.