Agricultural Laborer Detained In Panton Knife Attack

A farmhand, Jose Armando Lopez Moreno, 22, of Panton, was taken into custody and declared his innocence on July 18, 2025, regarding felony and misdemeanor attack charges following a knife attack at a Panton farming operation the previous evening. Lopez Moreno is charged with stabbing and slicing 23-year-old Marcos Diaz Lopez, also of Panton, with a broken bottle at a farm on Jersey St. at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 17. Diaz Lopez sustained grave but non-lethal injuries and was transported by air to the University of Vermont Medical Center, where he is in precarious but steady condition. Another individual implicated in the episode also received medical attention for a head wound.