Did the sound of helicopters hovering overhead affect you or your pet’s sleeping habits on Thursday night? According to a news report from WUSA Channel 9, the 1200 block of Potomac Avenue was the end scene of a Virginia car chase. The suspect was apprehended by Metropolitan Police after a barricade situation, which shutdown several [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Crime'
While you were sleeping: Virginia car chase ends in Hill East neighborhood
January 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill, New Hill East
Tags: Capitol Hill·car chase·Crime·hilleast·metropolitan police·safety
Stay Safe This Holiday Season
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
(Updated with news story from ABC7/WJLA.com) As another crime text alert came through to my phone last Saturday evening, I thought it would be a good time to remind our dear readers to be careful out there. Many of the recent incidents in our neighborhood (and, really, all around town) have been happening in the [...]
Car break-ins put Hill East residents on guard
December 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill, New Hill East
Car break-ins and theft are typical of big city life, but a recent spat of crime has some Hill East neighbors on guard. In recent weeks, neighbors on the Hill East listserv have reported several incidents of car burglary and theft. The reports hit close to home for this THIH writer and Hill East resident, [...]
Limited School Spots Create Demand — and Suspicions
July 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill North, Capitol Hill South, DC, Eastern Market
With DC schools welcoming students in less than a month, waiting lists at sought-after Hill elementary schools have shaken out a teensy bit to allow some lucky few to enroll their children come Aug. 22. But luck here is relative. Peabody Elementary preschool program here on the Hill has the longest waitlist in the city [...]
Tags: community meetings·Crime·Schools
Say It Ain’t So: MPD-1D Commander Kamperin To Retire
May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Commander David Kamperin, the highly-regarded MPD-1D (First Patrol District) Commander, who was both a classic commanding police official straight out of Central Casting in person, and a listserv and Internet-savvy presence in cyberspace, announced his retirement, set for May 21st. Citizens in those listservs have heaped praise and cordial good wishes on Kamperin, who has [...]
PCP Arrests On The Hill
February 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill South, New Hill East, Stadium Armory
While overall crime is down in PSA 107, last week’s February meeting did address a recent string of PCP related arrests on the Hill. The alleged incidents involved the arrest of a woman on Monday at 17th and C streets SE, on Wednesday at 15th and D streets SE and an arrest at the Stadium [...]
Arrest Made in Assault of Female on Pennsylvania SE
December 5th, 2010 · 7 Comments · New Hill East
On Sunday police arrested a suspect in the unprovoked attack of a female walking from Harris Teeter in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE. Police brought in a juvenile suspect at his residence without incident, MPD-1D Commander David Kamperin notified the local police listserv. At a community meeting Thursday evening, police had told the [...]
Lanier, Wells and Community Meet to Discuss Recent Crimes
December 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments · New Hill East
Last night the auditorium at Tyler Elementary School was filled with more than 100 concerned residents, anxious to hear a response from MPD and Councilmember Tommy Wells regarding the recent increase of violent crime near Pennsylvania Avenue SE. Chief Cathy Lanier and more than 15 members of the police and housing police force were on [...]
Tags: Crime
