At a news conference last night on Belt Road NW, Chief of Police Cathy Lanier announced that Peiro E. Fuentes Hernandez of Capitol Heights had been arrested and charged with the murders of Michael and Virginia Spevak.
The Post has more details on the Spevak case, and NBC is reporting a connection between Hernandez and 622 [...]
If you followed our election coverage, you doubtless saw (or perhaps skipped over) a number of humorous videos chronicling the various races—local, national, and imaginary. As outro music to many of these videos, I used a snippet supplied by Jason Cherkis. The track garnered at least one serious fan: a regular commenter by [...]
In conjunction with the investigation into the murder of Michael and Virginia Spevak, ABC 7 reports that D.C. Police discovered a safe and computer during yesterday's search of the backyard and alley behind 622 Ingraham St. NW.
A neighbor also found a charred ID belonging to Dr. Spevak in the alley.
Inspector Rodney Parks, addressing the press [...]
District drivers unite! You have nothing but your electronic tickets to lose, and a world to win!
D.C. Police announced yesterday the deployment of eleven new "photo enforced mobile radar locations." That means more e-tickets, more bright flashes in your rearview mirror, more grainy photos of your car's ass sent to you in the mail.
Take [...]
This afternoon in the backyard of 622 Ingraham Street NW, police found evidence relating to the murder of Michael and Virginia Spevak . The house is less than twenty yards from the spot where the Spevaks' blue 2005 Scion was torched in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Officers have brought in four of the [...]
Police are mounting a full-scale investigation after the brutal murder last night of an elderly couple in Chevy Chase, D.C.
The victims, identified as Dr. Michael Spevak and Virginia Spevak, had been bound and brutalized after an apparent break-in. Their car—a 2005 blue Toyota Scion—was discovered this morning around 5 a.m. in the 500 block [...]
From Chante Brodie on the 4-D listserv:
Traffic Advisory for the Fannie Mae 2008 Walk for the Homeless National Walkathon
The Fannie Mae 2008 Walk for the Homeless National Walkathon will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2008. To facilitate this event, vehicular traffic restrictions must be imposed on all the noted streets downtown, Washington, DC [...]
Wearing a fake beard while robbing a bank: inadvisable.
Wearing a fake beard while robbing the same bank twice: priceless.
Image courtesy of BuyCostumes.com
In a thoroughly predictable turn of events, Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul were the write-in champions of 2008 (by all accounts a banner year for write-ins). That makes plenty of sense, given that both Clinton and Paul boasted die-hard adherents with a bit of a disenfranchisement complex.
To paraphrase President-elect Obama: "When people get [...]
This afternoon I visited 1034 Quebec Place, where a massive fire claimed a life this morning. Firemen had a four-block area on lockdown. Pepco technicians were on every corner, assessing potential damage to the grid. Baleful neighbors watched the excavation and gave the professionals a wide berth. One woman told me [...]
Eric H. Holder, Jr., former Deputy Attorney General and senior legal advisor to President-elect Barack Obama, was tapped today to serve as Obama's Attorney General, Newsweek reports. (Holder also served as co-chief of Obama's veep selection committee.)
In a cover story in 1997—the same year Clinton nominated Holder for Dep. Attorney General—City Paper questioned Holder's [...]
At 8:05 this morning, more than 120 firefighters descended on 1034 Quebec Place, NW, where a massive blaze had consumed most of the house, inflicted extensive damage to the homes on either side, and charred a corpse on the second floor beyond recognition.
As of yesterday, City Paper's office at 2390 Champlain Street, NW is no longer a two-story operation. (The idea is to save on rent while effecting, ahem, a "more perfect union" between edit and web.) So now the old editorial desks languish on the second floor—empty but not forgotten—and the CP staff in [...]
A few minutes after 11 p.m. tonight, a young woman was shot in the 700 block of Decatur Street, NW.
The victim sustained injuries to her left arm and is not in in critical condition, police say. She is seventeen years old.
Police tape also demarcated a house at the intersection of 7th and Emerson Streets [...]
In which Erik extols the unexpected joys of the Sunday Examiner and introduces a new fuego feature: the battle of the Spanish-language weeklies!
