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 […]
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 — […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]