Rutland Man Sentenced For Running “Crack House” In Rutland, Vermont
Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 9:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
BURLINGTON, VT.- On Monday, a 52-year-old Rutland, Vermont, man and a former nurse, learned he would be spending the next two years in federal prison after being sentenced for turning a Rutland, Vermont, residence into the 1990s Warner Bros movie “New Jack City,” style “Crack House.”
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Michael P. Drescher, on Monday, August 4, 2025, Daniel McSwiggan, 52, of Rutland, Vermont, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss to 24 months in federal prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to Managing, Controlling, and Maintaining a Drug Premise.
McSwiggan Used And Allowed Others To Smoke Crack Inside The Residence
According to charging documents and statements made in the District Court, in late June and early July of 2024, McSwiggan rented and occupied a residence in Rutland, Vermont, where he used and allowed others to use crack cocaine, and from which he and others distributed the crack cocaine.
McSwiggan, a former practicing nurse at a local medical center, was terminated from his position in April 2024. McSwiggan also possessed multiple firearms at the residence. During the early morning hours of June 24, 2024, McSwiggan discharged a rifle in the direction of a rival drug dealer, as the dealer ran away from the residence.
During a subsequent court-authorized search warrant at the residence, law enforcement investigators located and seized a Savage .308 caliber rifle, a Ruger .22 caliber rifle, 282 rounds of ammunition, a quantity of crack cocaine, and items of drug paraphernalia.
Acting U.S. Attorney Drescher commended the investigative work of the Rutland Police Department, the Vermont State Police, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Vermont Drug Task Force, which led to the successful prosecution of McSwiggan.