The Good Guys arson trial is coming to the end. The jury is hearing closing statements now in the trial of Vasile Graure. I'll have updates on the arguments later in the day.

Attorneys for Vasile Graure opened and rested their case this afternoon in the case of last year's fire at Glover Park strip club Good Guys. After calling five witnesses to the stand—including two employees of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia and three MPD officers—Judge Robert Richter asked Graure if he'd like [...]

The government called its last witness this morning in its case against Vasile Graure, the man accused of setting fire to Glover Park strip club Good Guys last year. After listening to the testimony of MPD detective Frank Molina, who detailed the police's procedures used to identify the suspect, the jury filed out. Then, the [...]

Detective Todd Gray, a 19-year veteran of the D.C. police department, is assigned to the arson task force. He was involved in securing the search warrant for Vasile Graure's arrest following the Nov. 3, 2007 fire. He entered Graure's hotel room at the Alexandria Days Inn on the night of his arrest.
Inside, first aid gauze [...]

Frank Raucci, a 59-year-old Takoma Park electronics technician, has been frequenting Good Guys for six to seven years. He knows the waitresses, and is a friend of manager Kathleen Lazorchack. He's a regular. When he stopped into the club on the evening of Nov. 3, 2007, he sat down in front of stripper Gabriella's stage [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vasile Graure, the man accused of igniting a fire within Glover Park strip club Good Guys last year after being booted from the club, didn't arrive in court today. "I got a call from the Department of Corrections," announced Judge Robert Richter to the attorneys present this morning. "Vasile Graure has an infection in his [...]

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, [...]