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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Crime'
Lanier, Wells and Community Meet to Discuss Recent Crimes
December 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments · New Hill East
Tags: Crime
Wells Calls Those Concerned About Crime to PSA Forum
December 1st, 2010 · 11 Comments · New Hill East
Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells called for citizens concerned about recent crimes to attend the community PSA 106 meeting Thursday, Dec. 2nd at 7pm, at Tyler Elementary School, at the corner of 10th and G Street SE. “While crime in general has gone down in Ward 6 – if you’re the victim, any crime is [...]
Tags: Crime·Tommy Wells
Violent Attacks Prompt Shock, Added Police Presence
November 30th, 2010 · 55 Comments · New Hill East
Two Sunday crimes that have alarmed many in the community — a seemingly unprovoked, vicious attack on a woman walking from Harris Teeter around 3 PM Sunday, by one among a group of four young men, resulting in substantial facial injury and the unrelated shooting of a man nearby — has prompted the First District Police [...]
More Burglaries In The Neighborhood
November 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill
David recently shared that he and another THIH writer both recently had their houses broken into, and were told by the police that there has been a recent surge in robberies on Capitol Hill. After reader David’s post, a reader shared another story with us that we wanted to pass on. One of the best [...]
Tags: Crime
Capital City Diner Robbed, Server Shot
November 7th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Kingman Park
Late Saturday night Capital City Diner tweeted “Unfortunately, we have to close this evening until 6am for a family emergency. We will reopen Sunday at 6am.” The “family emergency” referred to was the shooting of one of their servers. The Diner’s Facebook page additional details on Sunday, “Our dear friend and waiter, Wade, was robbed [...]
Tags: Crime
Update on Surge in Capitol Hill Burglaries
November 2nd, 2010 · 7 Comments · Capitol Hill
After yesterday’s post about the recent surge in burglaries over the past few weeks on Capitol Hill (and my own experience), the police responded — Captain Mike Gottert is holding a meeting to address this uptick in crime tonight at Substation 1D1, 500 E Street SE, at 7:30pm. NBC4 also responded to the story — [...]
Tags: Crime
Burglaries on The Hill
November 1st, 2010 · 18 Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill South, New Hill East, Stadium Armory
Last Friday, I returned home from work to find out that my house had been burglarized. The basement door had been kicked in, most of the drawers and closets were opened and ransacked, and both my laptops (along with some cash) were gone. I’m not the only THIH blogger with a recent home invasion experience. [...]
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DC Styles Robbed and Owner Assaulted; Suspects Still At Large
July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · H Street
At 1 in the afternoon yesterday, two armed suspects entered H Street’s DC Styles, tied up and assaulted owner Mo Abdi, and fled in a awaiting car with money and clothing stolen from the store. According to police, the vehicle used to facilitate the escape is described and an older (1989 or 1990) dark colored [...]
Tags: Crime
Juvenille Violence? Oh, Yeah, Whatever Happened With That?
July 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
We tend not to pay a whole lot of attention to juvenile crime, until a spate of high profile events hit us. Before Snowpocalypse drove it from minds, carjacking was on top of everyone’s minds. And some time before that a spate of crimes near Potomac Avenue Metro was heating up the listservs. But between [...]
Tags: Community·Crime·kids·MPD·Tommy Wells
Homicide Arrest Made in Stabbing Death of Woman
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Rosedale
District police arrested an adult male in the homicide stabbing of Theresa Hungerford, 45, who was killed Monday night in an apartment in the 1600 block of E Street NE. The arrested male lives in the 1200 block of D Street NE, police announced. This case was investigated and brought to closure by Detective Anthony [...]
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