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Man Tries To Steal Toy Dog At Gunpoint, Is Thwarted By Dropped Cell Phone

Posted 05.21.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- An 18-year-old will have the next four years to ask himself why he brought his cell phone to an armed robbery. On Monday, Christophe...

Law Enforcement Investigates Bomb Threat At D.C. Hotel

Posted 05.15.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Streets were closed as police investigated a man who claimed to have a bomb in the parking garage of a D.C. hotel on Wednesday afternoon...

D.C. Pediatrician Was Looking At Child Pornography At Time Of Arrest

Posted 05.09.2013 | DC

A D.C. pediatrician has been charged with child pornography possession. Authorities say that 73-year-old Robert Dickey was looking at a website with p...

Government Seeks Long Sentence For Family Research Council Shooter

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.22.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors say a Virginia man who planned a mass killing at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group...

Man Found Dead In Tidal Basin Identified

Posted 04.13.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- The man found dead in the Tidal Basin early Thursday morning has been identified as missing software engineer Sarath Kumar Potharaju. ...

Bomb Threat On U Street

Posted 04.14.2013 | DC

Just after 1 p.m. on Friday, WUSA9 reported that D.C. police were investigating a bomb threat on U Street: A D.C. police spokesperson says authorit...

Body Found In D.C.'s Tidal Basin May Be Missing Tourist

Posted 04.12.2013 | DC

The man found dead in the Tidal Basin has been identified as missing software engineer Sarath Kumar Potharaju, reports WUSA9. WASHINGTON -- The sec...

Suspicious Vehicle Found Near White House

AP | Posted 04.10.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after police say he made a bomb threat outside the White House. D.C. police spokesman Araz Alali s...

Unlocked Police Car Stolen, Crashed

The Huffington Post | Erin Ruberry | Posted 03.26.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Let's file this under "reasons not to leave your car keys in the ignition." Police are looking for a suspect who stole, then crashed ...

Trial Date Set For Hunger Striker Accused Of Killing Elderly Wife

AP | Posted 03.25.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- A Washington, D.C., judge has set a December trial date for a German man charged with killing his elderly wife. Albrecht Muth was origi...

Bizarre Murder Trial Put On Hold

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 05.22.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON — The already-bizarre criminal case of a slain German socialite and journalist has been brought to a virtual standstill by her husban...

D.C. Police Make Arrest In Northwest Drive-By Shooting

AP | Posted 03.15.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- D.C. police have made an arrest in a drive-by shooting that injured 13 people standing outside an apartment building. Police say 19-yea...

WATCH: Police Release Surveillance Video Of Drive-By Shooting

AP | Posted 05.11.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON — D.C. police say 11 people have been wounded in a drive-by shooting outside an apartment complex in northwest Washington. Police sa...

CRAZY Road Rage Story Involves A Mercedes And A 2x4

Posted 02.19.2013 | DC

First, a botched left turn. Then, a turn for the worse. Much worse. The drivers of two cars -- a 2008 Chevrolet Impala and a 2004 Mercedes-Benz S45...

Shooter Wanted To 'Smother Chick-fil-A Sandwiches In Their Faces'

Posted 02.06.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Floyd Lee Corkins has pled guilty to charges stemming from the August 15 shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council's ...

Policeman GUILTY Of Murdering Mistress, Leaving Baby To Die

AP | Posted 01.17.2013 | Crime

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- A Maryland jury has convicted a District of Columbia police officer of killing his mistress and leaving their baby daughter to ...

Reston Zoo Head Found Guilty In Wallaby Death

Patch | Posted 09.29.2012 | DC

Reston Zoo Director Meghan Mogensen - accused of inhumanely euthanizing an injured wallaby - was found guilty by a Fairfax County General District jud...

Popular Downtown Eatery Robbed

Posted 09.26.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Police in the nation's capital are searching for three men in matching white dress shirts with burgundy stripes who robbed a Pret A Mang...

Coolidge High School Student Shot By Fellow Student On School Grounds, Police Say

Posted 09.20.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- An 18-year-old student at Coolidge High School in Northwest D.C. was shot on school property by a fellow student on Wednesday, just afte...

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Police Seek Pint-Size Robbery Suspect

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.17.2012 | Crime

Authorities in Washington, D.C. are seeking the public's help in locating a baby-faced robbery suspect. According to the Metropolitan Police Depart...

D.C. Shooting Suspects Get Tough Sentences

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 09.11.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Five men responsible for deadly 2010 shootings in Washington, some of the worst violence in the nation's capital in years, were sentence...

He Talks To Archangels And Claims He's An Iraqi General, But Docs Say He's Sane Enough For Murder Trial

AP | Posted 09.07.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Doctors at a psychiatric hospital say a German man is competent to stand trial in the killing of his much-older wife, who was a journali...

Notorious Flower Thief Spotted?

Posted 08.29.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- The person who has been pilfering flowers from gardens around the nation's capital has struck again, according to a message posted to th...

Vital Crime Resource Needs Funds

Posted 08.16.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Homicide Watch wants to mark every death in the District of Columbia. Remember every victim. Follow every case. And they need $40,000 to...

2 Kids Shot At Apartment Complex Swimming Pool

Posted 06.25.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Police in the nation's capital are looking for a man they believe shot two children and an adult at a District of Columbia swimming pool...