MPD Detective Richard Espinosa is currently stationed in Djibouti, Africa, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Last year, he helped arrest Vasile Graure, the defendant in the Good Guys arson case. Graure was arrested in Alexandria's Days Inn several days after the fire. Espinosa testified today that police had put Graure under surveillance for about [...]
On the night of the fire, Samuel Bond's old Marine buddy invited him to celebrate his upcoming wedding. So Bond, 27, traveled from Richmond to Washington, D.C., and headed to the Good Guys strip club to join the bachelor party. At around 7 p.m., he sat down, had a couple drinks, talked with his buddy's [...]
Vasile Graure returned to court today as the government continued its case against him. Graure is charged with eight counts of assault with intent to kill, one count of aggravated assault, one count of mayhem, two of burglary, one of arson, and one of property destruction exceeding $200, in connection with a fire in Glover [...]
Yesterday, the prosecution in the case against accused strip club fire-starter Vasile Graure entered into evidence a sizable exhibit: A scale model of Glover Park's Good Guys strip club, complete with three mini stripper stages, a mini bar, and mini patron figurines. Government prosecutors wheeled it in on a table, a curtain covering the set [...]
Second district D.C. police officer Robert Fennell, Jr., was on duty on the night of the fire. He testified today in court about responding to a report of the blaze. After he arrived on the scene, he says, he spoke to officers who were at the club before going behind back and seeing Djordjevic. "He [...]
Two Good Guys waitresses were called to the stand today in the trial of Romanian citizen Vasile Graure, the man accused of setting the club on fire last November. Valerie Kremer, 29, who left her job at the club in September, was working the night shift at the club on the evening of Nov. 3, [...]
This afternoon, Andrew Ferguson and Premal Dharia, attorneys for Vasile Graure—accused of alighting Glover Park strip club Good Guys last year—-cross-examined Good Guys employee Kathleen Lazorchack, the only manager on duty the night of the fire.
Kathleen Lazorchack, 39, has been working at Good Guys for 16 years. She had just started her shift— waiting tables—on the evening of Nov. 4 3, 2007 when the place burst into flames. She took the stand today in the trial of Vasile Graure, the man accused of igniting the fire last year.
Vasile Graure is accused of lighting a fire in Glover Park strip club Good Guys in November of last year. The trial, which began on Monday, continued this morning with the testimony of Gloria Anez, a witness called by the prosecution.
Anez, 37, is married to Vladimir Djordjevic, a manager bartender of the club. Djordjevic suffered [...]
On Nov. 4, 2007, a man was kicked out of Glover Park's Good Guys strip club for taking photos of the strippers with his cell phone. He left, but returned with a lighter and gasoline and set the club's manager on fire. Two days later, police and U.S. Marshalls found their suspect, Vasile Graure, in [...]
