Dupont Circle public-safety activist Rob Halligan has had his share of run-ins with Nathan Johnson, an inveterate thief who's pilfered clothes, food, and trinkets from many an automobile in Northwest over the past five years. So when Halligan spotted Johnson yet again in the company of police officers this past fall, after the 46-year-old was [...]

D.C. cops are in for some changes come 2007. And they won't just be answering to a new chief, Cathy Lanier. Many of the city's officers will also be answering to new badge numbers, and they're not all thrilled about it.
Back in the fall of 2005, now-outgoing Chief Charles H. Ramsey ordered that the department [...]

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MPD-1D
Have the birds near Gallaudet University looked especially dirty lately? John explains: “I have not had a chance to call in a report but last night in the 700 Block of L Street NE...an individual entered our gate and stole a [...]

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Brookland
PL forwards an e-mail that's been making the listserv rounds warning residents of a “NEW WAY TO DO CAR JACKINGS (NOT A JOKE!).” Cue the creepy music: “You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. You start [...]

There were a lot of big names at FedExField yesterday during the Skins–Eagles game: Betts. Campbell. Garcia. Randle El. But for any fan who had to park at one of the field's distant lots and take a Metrobus shuttle to the stadium, there were two names that were more important than any on the field: [...]

When the D.C. Public Library announced the arrival of wireless Internet at DCPL locations across the city in September, only a single neighborhood branch out of more than 20 found itself uninvited to the hip Wi-Fi party: the Deanwood Kiosk.
The hot-spot snub shouldn't have surprised anyone who's visited the diminutive, 150-square-foot hexagonal outpost on Nannie [...]

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MPD-6D
Ms V has a law-enforcement question: “My oldest daughter, who is 12 years old, snook a 17 year old boy in the house. Is there something I can do to keep this 17 year old boy away from my daughter? He [...]

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AdamsMorgan
Last week, scarlsondc spotted a handful of workers doing measurements inside the former DCCD music shop on 18th Street NW. He said the group buying the vacant building is a nonprofit working in drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Naturally, the rumor of [...]

A few weeks ago, 7th District Commander Joel Maupin lamented the less-than-ideal placement of one of Southeast D.C.'s new Metropolitan Police Department surveillance cameras. Police had hoped to hang a camera near the courtyard of the Wheeler Terrace apartment buildings, where three people have been killed this year, but instead had to settle for a [...]

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If you're a beat cop, what's worse than getting chewed out by your commander? How about getting showed up by him at a crime scene. According to Councilmember Jim Graham, after a woman was robbed by a BB-gun-toting perp in Mount [...]

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MPD-1D
It's not like the D.C. Department of Corrections has exclusive rights to humiliating prisoner escapes. When asked what the deal was with the police chopper circling over 13th Street and Maryland Avenue NE at around 10 a.m. Monday, Commander Diane Groomes [...]

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Chad Williams arrest report

Yesterday, Ward 1 D.C. Council candidate Chad Williams pleaded guilty to simple assault in D.C. Superior Court. The charge stemmed from a March 27 domestic violence incident with Williams' ex-girlfriend at his Holmead Place NW home. An arrest report alleges that after the woman had sought out Williams to resolve lingering financial [...]

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Brookland
Just because your strawberry plants mysteriously left your front porch doesn't mean they left your neighborhood, according to Joel near 20th and Kearny. In a post regarding the “perennial problem” of plant-nappings, he says he and his wife were working on [...]

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Petworth
Besieged local pol Sinclair Skinner informs members that “untrue and slanderous information” about him has been posted to the listserve, and that the poster has created “a Website to try to destroy my name and career.” Skinner says he's hired an [...]