Posts Tagged ‘crime’
Early Morning Shooting, Crash Wakes Brookland
Just before 4am, a loud boom woke me from a cold sleep. I got up, looked around, and lay back down until I heard the sirens of a significant police and fire response. Dressing quickly, I was outside about 4:15am this morning, to see Engines 15 and 17 fighting a car fire in my neighbor’s [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Metro Escalators Closed Due to Police Situation
Update: Foggy Bottom Metro Escalators are open again. Police presence remains. Post reports the “unruly subject” was an aggressive panhandler.
Update from the GW Hatchet: Police activity following an altercation led to the escalator shutdown. An “unruly subject” being escorted from GW Hospital tried to grab someone outside, and the recipient of the grab proceeded to [...]
Metrobus Passenger Shot on U2 near Minnesota Ave
‘Metro Bus, Downtown Washington DC’courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
Metro has just announced that a passenger on board a U2 Metrobus was shot early this evening near the intersection of 18th & Minnesota Ave SE. The passenger was transported by life-flight helicopter to Washington Hospital Center with significant injuries. No motive is apparent, [...]
Shooting at Pentagon Metro
(Video from ArlingtonNews)
Update, the next day: Pentagon shooter J. Patrick Bedell was a software engineer from California, with lots of online trails: a Wikipedia profile, a blogspot blog, an Amazon review and wish list, a Linked In page, and a SourceForge project. See DCist and Gawker for additional details on Bedell’s disturbed online presence.
(Earlier updates [...]
Another Cuddling Incident
‘Cop Car in Georgetown’
courtesy of ‘Hoosiers United’
Has the “Georgetown Cuddler” returned? Police report that a woman in Glover Park awoke on Sunday morning to find a stranger spooning her in bed. Upon discovery, the man fled without stealing anything, or otherwise causing any property damage. This crime bears striking resemblance to a spate of sexual [...]
Northface Store Robbed, Handgun Involved
‘North Face Store, Georgetown’
courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’
Yesterday afternoon thieves entered The Northface Clothing Store on M Street in Georgetown, stole a large amount of merchandise and held the pursuing security officer at gunpoint before making their getaway.
At around 1:45pm, five suspects entered the store, removed a significant amount of merchandise, exited the store without paying and [...]
Spot Crime in DC
If you like keeping an eye on local criminal activity, then look no further than SpotCrime’s Washington, DC Crime Map. This handy little tracker allows you to search by crime type (Arrest, Arson, Shooting, Burglary, etc.,) by date/time, by location, and enroll for crime alerts. It also allows you to report crimes, but usually takes [...]
More »MPD Divers in the Potomac
What was up with those MPD scuba divers in the Potomac just off Washington Harbour this morning? Did someone throw evidence into the river? Or was someone sent to sleep with the snakeheads in cement shoes? In any case, thanks to the officers for letting me go pseudo-paparazzi on the diving action this morning and [...]
More »Metro to Conduct Random Bag Searches
Washington Post tells us that teams of Metro Transit Police with dogs will be conducting random bag searches on trains and buses at times when “heightened vigilance” is required. Passengers will be taken aside at random intervals before boarding buses or entering rail stations to be screened; those who do not comply will not be [...]
More »Metro Arrest
This was the scene at Foggy Bottom Metro this afternoon as Metro Transit Police personnel pulled a guy from an Orange Line Vienna/Fairfax train and detained him, for what offense I do not know:
Larger video here.
The suspect appeared to be asleep when I first saw him, but awoke with some poking from an officer, and [...]
Stabbing on Capitol Hill
The Hill East and MPD-1D mailing lists are abuzz with the alarming news from Capitol Hill of a woman sexually assaulted and stabbed multiple times by a burglar late Monday night.
According to the account of a neighbor who came to help, the victim came home to an intruder in her house, and ran into a [...]
The icing on the cake
Go Ahead…, courtesy of maxedaperture
If the never ending-escalator problems, line closings on busy weekends, and service delays weren’t enough for you, here’s another Metro gem for you: if the current trend continues through December, “serious” crime on the metro will be up 15% for 2008 says the DC Examiner.
It’s not as bad as it might [...]
Two “Suspicious Package” Alerts
Two news alerts today of “suspicious packages” at Gallaudet University and Judiciary Square Metro Station this morning.
Ballard North Hall at Gallaudet was evacuated while a bomb squad was called in, and Judiciary Square Station was closed, with trains continuing to travel through it but no stops.
Update: Judiciary Square Station is back open again after the [...]
Pitbull Mauls Child, Gets Shot
Got this heads-up from Commander David Kamperin on the MPD-1D Mailing List about officers shooting a pitbull in SE after they saw it attacking a six-year old girl:
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Stolen Shakespeare First Folio Recovered
December, 1998: “I shall steal this priceless edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio from a Durham University exhibition! The perfect historical literary crime! Ha ha!”
July, 2008: “I wonder if this First Folio I stole is authentic? I shall bring this to the Folger Shakespeare Library and leave it with them for analysis. No way they can [...]
