Police and local community leaders want you to be on the lookout and keep safety in mind while walking around Capitol Hill. A number of recent robberies and car thefts have many in the neighborhood on edge and wondering when a recent spike in crime will end. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) is planning [...]
Entries Tagged as 'MPD'
Save the Capitol Hill Classic
May 10th, 2011 · 32 Comments · Capitol Hill
Please welcome guest author Don Montouri. Don has been the race director of the Capitol Hill Classic 10K for several years. –MHC ___________ On May 15, when the last runner crosses the finish line of the Capitol Hill Classic 10k, a 32-year-old Hill tradition could come to an end. This could very well be the [...]
Tags: Capitol Hill Classic·Cluster Schools·event·Mayor Gray·MPD·race·running
Fake Irish Drunk Fest Comes to RFK
March 10th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Stadium Armory
Oh God, it’s ShamrockFest time again. Every year we go through this. Hordes of drunks staggering their way back from RFK and trying (and, oh so often failing) to figure out how to use the Metro. And yes, peeing. Like cats in mating season. All over the neighborhood and themselves. Every year those of us [...]
Tags: MPD·RFK Stadium·ShamrockFest
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 [...]
Car Fire in Capitol Hill Garage, 1 Dead
January 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill, Eastern Market
A sad and bizarre story this morning from near Eastern Market. DC Fire and EMS responded to a car fire in a garage on the corner of 8th and A ST SE a little before 5 AM today. Once on scene, firefighters found heavy smoke and fire in a garage. While the fire was quickly [...]
Traffic Calming on 11th Street, SE
September 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Capitol Hill South
This article, by David Holmes, originally appeared in the September, 2010, newsletter of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society. Change may be in store for 11th Street, SE. At a meeting called by ANC Commissioner Kristen Oldenburg and Councilmember Tommy Wells, the District Department of Transportation (DDoT) presented proposed changes in street parking and new bike [...]
Tags: 11th St Bridge·DDOT·MPD·transportation
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
Armed Robbery at CVS on 12th
July 21st, 2010 · 9 Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill South
Just when we were all bemoaning the poor quality of criminal enterprises on the Hill, two gentlemen proved us wrong this morning. It appears that we have stepped it up, crime wise. This morning at 9:21, an armed guard and his assistant were restocking an ATM with cash at the CVS on the corner of [...]
Tags: Capitol Hill·Crime·MPD
FedEx Delivers Illegal Narcotics to Hill Home
February 24th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Capitol Hill North
Melanie Sloan wasn’t expecting a delivery when she heard her doorbell ring shortly after 6pm Monday evening. Waiting on her doorstep was a package delivered by FedEx; the FedEx driver left the package on her doorstep and drove away before Sloan could reach her door. Although the address on the package was correct, Sloan didn’t recognize [...]
