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Almighty Peaks Painting is a painting business in Colchester whose name comes up in local news over drug trafficking, not over paint jobs. Local news reports have connected the business and its owner, Derrick Holmes, to drug trafficking. In 2018, a Reddit commenter in r/vermont wrote that a building's owners had hired Almighty Peaks Painting for years and called its owner "the guy in Colchester who got arrested with a kilo of heroin."
βone business closed down after the ownerβs son (related to Mazzas) got into a fight with the Almighty Peaks owner.β
βNot the tenants fault that Boves hired local druglord Almighty Peaks Painting and then ignored residentsβ complaints about drug dealing and drug use by Almightyβs workers.β
βActually Boves hired Almighty Peaks Painting, company caught with a kilo of heroin and even though tenants complained for years about drug dealings and using, their complaints were unheard.β
βthe owners hired Almighty Peaks Painting for years - the guy in Colchester who got arrested with a kilo of heroin - regularly sold heroin to tenants and Boves ignored complaints.β
βDerrick Holmes, owner of Almighty Peaks Painting, pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court Friday.β
βOnce discharged from prison, Holmes, the operator of Almighty Peaks Painting in Colchester, will be on supervised release for four years.β
βAuthorities say Holmes used his Almighty Peaks Painting business as a distribution point for drugs and even paid some of his workers in drugs.β
βfederal agents arrested two suspected drug dealers and seized more than a kilo of heroin β street value as high as half a million dollars βoutside Almighty Peaks Painting, a business located in a Colchester strip mall owned by Sen. Dick Mazza (D-Grand Isle).β
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1 change recorded β last scanned Oct 23, 2026.
Typical Vermont range for this kind of work, from regional averages β not a quote from ALMIGHTY PEAKS PAINTING. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Finished floor area of the rooms in scope β not wall area.
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$5,600 β $8,350
Typical painting project around $7,000