Posts Tagged ‘Adams Morgan’

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Cops Sell D.C. Residents Fake Marijuana

If you have a certain Adams Morgan-area pot delivery guy on speed dial and you haven't been able to get through lately, stop calling—and count yourself lucky you didn't get busted.
A police source tells City Desk vice officers recently served a warrant on an alleged drug dealer's house in the 3rd [...]

Predictions Come True on Blockbuster’s Death Spiral

Another Blockbuster Video location is closing. With the once-mighty national chain shuttering its Adams Morgan location on Columbia Road, the District will be only left with one store, on 8th Street SE on Capitol Hill.
While Prince of Petworth reacts with "Woah, Big Adams Morgan News," Blockbuster's closure isn't really that big a shock, now is [...]

Cops Have Eyed 17th & Euclid For Years

Last night's shooting near 17th Street NW, Euclid Street and Mozart Place drew police to an area of Adams Morgan that they've been watching for years. In 2004, Washington City Paper's Jason Cherkis wrote about the scene at the corner of 17th and Euclid, where the Bennett family lives—and the allegations by authorities, and neighbors, [...]

Adams Morgan Shooting Victim Dies: Retaliation to Follow?

The victim in Wednesday night's shooting in Adams Morgan died of his wounds, The Washington Post is reporting. Mozart Place NW, in the vicinity of Euclid Street, was swarmed with Metropolitan Police Department officers following the shooting. MPD has been investigating the incident as a homicide.
According to an e-mail sent to an Adams Morgan online [...]

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1800 Block of Vernon Street NW, July 14

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Adams Morgan, June 28

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Columbia Road, NW © 2010 Matt Dunn

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Jim Graham’s Change of Heart on Loitering

So some posters on the MPD listservs are still all like...get these kids off my lawn. "I live on 16th Street NE, near Mt. Olivet Rd and the loitering is worsening as the weather warms," one exasperated resident says.
The complaining is mostly about youngsters hanging out in neighborhoods in large groups, intimidating wine and cheese [...]