As Vermont state troopers were attempting to arrest 24-year-old Brandon Tallman after an altercation with a neighbor, his 52-year-old father, Wayne Tallman, jumped into an excavator and swung the bucket in their direction. The younger man's mother, Amy Talman, also attempted to interfere with the arrest and was given a citation for impeding an officer. The father was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a protected official, resisting arrest, impeding and reckless endangerment. The son was arrested for aggravated assault, burglary, unlawful mischief, and resisting arrest.