The D.C. police commander who suggested that chauffeuring celebrities like Charlie Sheen around has been "standard operating procedure" for his department for years says he's in trouble.
Commander Hilton Burton says he's been "ostracized" by other police officials. He also says that, last week, Internal Affairs officers questioned him for a second time regarding Sheen's law [...]
Charlie Sheen remains the kooky albatross hanging around the Metropolitan Police Department's neck—only now he's been joined by a turkey.
Besides providing guarded companionship for the fowl that gets a presidential pardon for Thanksgiving, MPD has escorted "Santa Claus," and sports teams like the Philadelphia Eagles. In 2003, Justin Timberlake got his own D.C. police ride [...]
If, walking down the street, you suddenly realize you're being followed, or you're too drunk to make it home safely on your own, hailing a taxi is usually a fine idea. But Saturday, The Washington Post reported that there might be a reason not to: A man posing as a cabbie has been sexually assaulting women.
District [...]
Metropolitan Police Department officials could announce tomorrow that they've got a suspect in the 1999 murder of government immigration lawyer Joyce Chiang.
Chiang's body was found in the Anacostia River 12 years ago, months after she disappeared from Dupont Circle. She was 28.
In July 1999, Eddie Dean wrote about the case for Washington City Paper:
Now, six [...]
Bureaucratic snags may be keeping a nefarious and elusive D.C.-area serial killer from being identified.
The Freeway Phantom was certainly that. Beginning in 1971, over 16 months, the killer managed to abduct six young black females and keep some captive for days, without being seen.
In the end, he sexually assaulted some of his [...]
It's been a year since Breathalyzers disappeared from the District, and now some inebriated drivers may be getting a free pass. In February 2010, the city admitted it goofed on some 400 breath tests after a technician made flawed adjustments to devices used by the Metropolitan Police Department. Philly has had [...]
Two road rage incidents may have been downplayed by D.C. authorities in March. One is currently attracting a good bit of attention, the other not so much.
Thomas Bagnall and William Greenback, two Voice of America reporters, have filed a District civil suit alleging they were plowed into on March 23 by an angry and impatient [...]
While D.C. might be pondering more recent dog shootings, one that occurred in 2009 left a 12-year-old Petworth boy and his dog injured, and has inspired an $8 million lawsuit against the District. The lawsuit has been quietly chugging along since 2010, and names the Metropolitan Police Department and an [...]
Romeo Morgan, the business owner who says an internal affairs cop assaulted him with a BMW Friday, says he met with investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department about the incident this morning.
At a 9:30 meeting, he says, cops asked him about his claim that IAD detective Leon Epps accelerated into him after Morgan, who was [...]
The owner of Morgan's Seafood in Petworth says he had a harrowing experience Friday afternoon. Romeo Morgan says he was outside his Georgia Avenue restaurant when a police officer lost it during a traffic altercation. Morgan says he was helping direct a tractor trailer that wanted to pull out of traffic and into a spot [...]
The Metropolitan Police Department seems big on traps of late. Saturday, in a sting that targeted websites that advertise prostitutes, MPD arrested at least two women: Kiara Smith and Vickie Chan, both 21. Court records say Smith was arrested at the Embassy Suites Hotel on 10th Street NW. Chan was arrested at a Holiday [...]
Yesterday, Fourth District Metropolitan Police Department Officer Jennifer Green was charged with receiving stolen goods. Today, an MPD official speaking on condition of anonymity says three more officers from that district have been arrested for doing the same.
The officers are accused of buying items they believed to be stolen, according to the official. The three [...]
Police sources say Jennifer Green, a 28-year-old woman being arraigned on charges of burglary and receiving stolen goods today, is a Metropolitan Police Department officer.
Approached before the hearing, Green's attorney, Kenneth Auerbach, declined comment. The U.S. Attorney's office, which will be prosecuting the case, also declined comment. Sources say Green works in the [...]
On Jan. 27, 1978, then-Metropolitan Police Department Chief Burtell M. Jefferson said he would personally support legalizing prostitution in the District, but that he didn't think such a proposal would get any traction because of city politics.
"Regardless of what you do, prostitution is going to be here," The Washington Post reported Jefferson as saying. "I [...]
So far, no one's quite sure why lobbyist Ashely Turton's car burst into flames on Jan. 10, killing her. Metropolitan Police Department officials tell us the death of the 37-year-old is still under investigation, and an Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruling on cause and manner of death is still pending. But [...]
